People v. Rukaj

At about midnight on January 4, 1986, the defendant and two accomplices were observed behaving suspiciously at a side doorway to Zaro’s Bakery at the deserted Cross County Shopping Center in Yonkers, New York. When security guards responded to the scene, the three men fled, abandoning a crate filled with tools as well as money and other items belonging to Zaro’s next to a van parked nearby. The van, which contained more tools, beepers and dispatching equipment, was subsequently found to belong to the defendant. Less than half an hour after the commission of the crime, the defendant was…