A career criminal with nearly 60 arrests on his rap sheet burglarized a Brooklyn wig shop and made off with $30,000 in pricey pieces — including some possibly meant for cancer patients, police sources said.
Daron Ware, 52, allegedly hit the Hustle Wig shop on Dean Street in Crown Heights on the morning of March 4, cops said. Police detectives got surveillance video of a man entering the closed shop and walking out with a stuffed sack.
“They took wigs and materials to make the wigs, including hair and some hats and some random things,” co-owner Rivka Krinsky said.
Nine of the stolen hairpieces were valued at about $30,000, around $3,300 for each, according to Krinsky.
Some of the shop’s wigs, which are created from real human hair, are sold to cancer patients, Krinsky said, but she wasn’t sure how many of the stolen wigs were for patients.
“The clients didn’t know because we were able to replace the orders very swiftly,” she said. “We were able to get everything out pretty much on time.”
Cops caught up with Ware on March 13, charging him with burglary and illegal entry, police said.
He’s currently in jail on Rikers Island.
A four-time convicted felon who was already on parole until December 2026, Ware has a lengthy history of lawbreaking in the Big Apple that dates back to the 1980s, police sources said.
In 1990, he got a year in prison after being nabbed for a loaded firearm, the sources said.
Ware was then re-arrested on a robbery charge in 1991 and spent 17 years behind bars until 2009, the police sources said.
The repeat offender had another run-in with the law in 2013, and did three years for another robbery, the sources said.
Following his release in 2016, Ware was convicted of 14 other misdemeanors, the sources told The Post, including a felony burglary charge in 2020 for stealing a package from a building in Brooklyn.
While awaiting sentencing, Ware vanished and was on the lam for more than a year before authorities found him, the sources said. He was sentenced to another two to four years in prison.
The post Hairy situation: career ‘thief’ steals $30K in wigs from Brooklyn shop that helps cancer patients appeared first on New York Post.
