What a bonehead!
A dog walker swiped nearly $190,000 worth of jewelry and trinkets from well-heeled clients living at several luxury Brooklyn condo towers — abusing his pooch-pickup apartment access, police sources said.
Tyson Garcia, 27, allegedly burglarized seven apartments in August and September at five buildings in Dumbo, police sources said.
Some of Garcia’s clients — including a celebrity photographer, a poetry editor and a magazine director — left copies of their apartment keys at the front desk, so Garcia could care for their dogs, sources said.
But they soon discovered their posh pads had been ransacked — and not by a restless canine.
“I got home one day and my bedroom was a mess. Everything inside my jewelry box was gone,” said Laurel Wells, a fashion producer who lives at 50 Bridge St., where units rent for $5,000-plus a month.
She hired Garcia to walk her Labradoodle, Zuma, for $15 to $25 per session, but soon got a bad feeling about him.
“We knew it was Tyson from Day One . . . The whole thing is weird because we didn’t even know him. We knew his brother, Titus. It’s a relief that he’s been arrested,” she said.
Garcia also made off with electronics worth more than $16,000 belonging to Wells’ celebrity-photographer husband Perry Hagopian, police sources said.
Dog-owning residents at 100 Jay St., 3 Doughty St., 365 Bridge St. and 81 Washington St. also were burglarized, cops said.
Cops say Garcia, who was busted last Thursday, admitted he had pawned the jewelry at stores in Manhattan’s Diamond District.
He was charged with burglary, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal trespassing. He’s being held in jail in lieu of $25,000 bail or $50,000 bond.