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'I Was Curious,' Says Worker Caught Rifling Woman's Underwear Drawer: NYPD

 A man hired to fix a faucet stole from a woman's underwear drawer (not the one pictured above), police said.
A man hired to fix a faucet stole from a woman's underwear drawer (not the one pictured above), police said.
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GREENWICH VILLAGE — A man hired to fix a faucet went rifling through a woman's underwear drawer — and when confronted, said he was "curious," police said.

Police said a 40-year-old man was contracted to fix a bathroom faucet in a Sullivan Street apartment at 5 p.m. on March 24.

While in the apartment, he rummaged through the 29-year-old female tenant's underwear drawer, police said. The tenant caught him on surveillance video from a camera in her bedroom, police said.

When she returned to her apartment, the tenant also noticed her Chase credit card and MetroCard were missing from her drawer, police said.

She told police she did not give the man permission to be in her bedroom, to go through her underwear drawer or take her things, police said.

When asked what he was doing in her underwear drawer, the man said, "I was curious," police said.

The man was arrested and charged with burglary in the second degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree and criminal possession of stolen property in the fourth degree.

He was released without bail and is due back in court on May 19. His lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.