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Camera and Phone Stolen from YMCA Locker, Police Say

July 13, 2015 7:17pm | Updated July 13, 2015 7:17pm
A Canon Rebel camera, similar to the one pictured here, was stolen from a gym locker room at the YMCA.
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UPPER WEST SIDE — Two men had $1,160 in property, including a Canon camera, stolen from a locker at a local YMCA, police said. 

An 18-year-old man and a 19-year-old man locked a Samsung phone and a Canon Rebel camera in a locker in the men's locker room at the West 63rd Street YMCA on July 8, police said. 

They returned to the locker, which they had secured with a combination lock, about an hour later at 4 p.m., to find the camera, phone and lock gone, police said. 

The YMCA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

Combination locks are very easy for thieves to quickly pick in locker rooms, where there aren't surveillance cameras, police previously said. 

Locker room thieves have hit the YMCA before, as well as Equinox and New York Sports Club locations in the neighborhood, police said. 

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