A Suspect Is Arrested in Two Bronx Church Burglaries, and Investigated in More

From The New York Times-

At the school at Our Lady of Refuge Roman Catholic Church in Bedford Park, the Bronx, the thief came in through the gymnasium window last month.

At St. James Episcopal Church, a landmark Gothic Revival building on Jerome Avenue, the thief got in on Friday by smashing through a Tiffany stained-glass window.

There have been 10 break-ins at churches and parochial schools in the northwest Bronx since Nov. 6. Among the items stolen was money from an alms box and cash set aside for needy students.

On Sunday, a man who has spent the last 20 years in and out of prison on burglary charges was arrested near the school at St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church on the Grand Concourse not long after a burglary. After the man, Nathaniel Linden, 51, of Webb Avenue in the Bronx, was arrested, the police said they had linked him to a second burglary, at Iglesia Bautista Hispana de Fordham on University Avenue on Dec. 13.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/nyregion/21churches.html?src=twrhp