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A career criminal with nearly 60 arrests is accused of burglarizing a Brooklyn wig shop owned by an ultra-Orthodox woman and stealing $30,000 worth of merchandise, including wigs potentially meant for cancer patients, according to police sources.
Daron Ware, 52, allegedly broke into Hustle Wig on Dean Street in Crown Heights on the morning of March 4, authorities said. Surveillance video captured a man entering the closed store and leaving with a large sack.
“They took wigs and materials to make the wigs, including hair and some hats and some random things,” co-owner Rivky Krinsky said.
Nine of the stolen hairpieces were valued at about $30,000 in total — approximately $3,300 each, Krinsky said.
Some of the wigs, made from real human hair, are typically sold to cancer patients, Krinsky said. She added that she was not sure how many of the stolen pieces were intended 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.”
Police arrested Ware on March 13, charging him with burglary and illegal entry. He is currently being held at Rikers Island.
Ware, a four-time convicted felon, was on parole until December 2026 and has a criminal record in New York City dating back to the 1980s, police sources said.
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In 1990, he served one year in prison after being arrested with a loaded firearm, according to the sources. He was arrested again on a robbery charge in 1991 and spent 17 years behind bars, being released in 2009.
Ware was convicted again in 2013 and served three years for another robbery, the sources said. After his release in 2016, he was convicted of 14 additional misdemeanors, including a felony burglary charge in 2020 for stealing a package from a Brooklyn building.
While awaiting sentencing in that case, Ware disappeared and remained at large for more than a year before authorities located him, the sources said. He was then sentenced to another two to four years in prison.