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Snowy footprints lead to Brooklyn car burglary suspect

NEW YORK - It was a call about a cold case hat heated up the wintry streets of Brooklyn. The neighborhood watch group Flatbush Shomrim received a call about two people trying to break into cars Tuesday morning.

When members of the group got to the scene the suspects were gone, but they had left behind a trail of footprints in the snow, the group's executive coordinator Robert Moskowitz told CBS New York.

"It was very easy to follow them," Moskowitz said. "These guys were not rocket scientists."

One set of footprints disappeared into an apartment building and "we lost him," but the other set kept going, Moskowitz said.

"It was a clear path and they were able to follow them probably for about a quarter of a mile until they finally picked him up," Moskowitz told the station.

The snow prints ended at the corner of Bedford and Avenue I.

The suspect was easy to track down, because his footprints were the only ones in the fresh, newly-fallen snow.

"He was going in and out of driveways and sure enough, in one of the driveways, he entered a car," Moskowitz said.

Shomrim called police, who then arrested 20-year-old Terrel St. John.

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