A physician who recently moved to the Upper East Facet from Texas returned home after her initially shift at a Manhattan clinic — only to explore her pet had been stolen from her condominium.
Dr. Autumn Brewer, 27, had just finished a 14-hour change offering infants at Westchester Health-related Center on Friday when she returned to her new pad on East 94th Road and uncovered her condominium door was unlocked her 3-calendar year-outdated miniature Australian shepherd, Stella, experienced vanished.
“I was like Okay, my door was unlocked, that’s bizarre,” Brewer advised The Submit Monday night immediately after a different 14-hour shift.
“And then I walked in and ordinarily Stella can listen to me and when I’m walking down the hallway — she’ll commence scratching at the doorway, and she did not do that,” she extra.
When Brewer went exterior to search at the lock box wherever she retains a important for her doggy walkers, she reported uncovered that it was however set to her code.
“I started putting it collectively like Okay my lock box wasn’t locked back, my doorway was unlocked, my canine is absent,” the obstetrician reported.
“It’s unquestionably a painful fact if I’m likely to have to be in the town without the need of Stella just since I was so excited to appear below, and I never thoughts dwelling by myself but I didn’t want to be by yourself.”
Brewer’s tale was 1st noted by the blog site, Upper East Website.
The NYPD confirmed to The Post on Monday that the “victim returned house, and her front doorway was unlocked.
“Dog, dog collar, leash and harness were eliminated from condominium,” cops reported.
Investigators have been not able to review surveillance video from the building’s foyer digicam and 3 exterior cameras to day — simply because the employees equipped to access them have been off for the holiday getaway weekend, according to Brewer.
She explained to detectives that “multiple persons have obtain to the condominium,” police stated.
A person of people people today is a female graduate pupil who Brewer met on the doggy-going for walks app Rover.
The pet-walker, who is not accused of any wrongdoing, took Stella for a stroll without having incident Friday but explained she had an unsettling face when she and the pooch afterwards returned to the developing.
The unnamed pet dog-walker explained to Brewer a different girl with a small black pet dog and two trash bags was just standing in the vestibule staring at them.
The pet dog-walker claimed that when she then acquired up to Brewer’s apartment, it took her 5 to 7 minutes to unlock the doorway as she struggled with the critical she had gotten from the lockbox outside Brewer’s apartment.
Soon after putting Stella inside of the dwelling, the pet-walker mentioned she shut the door, which automatically locked behind her, and still left — only to obtain the lockbox now long gone. She at some point discovered it connected to window bars on an adjacent creating.
A distraught Brewer has started out an Instagram account entitled Bring Stella Dwelling in her quest to crack the canine caper.
The Rover app is presenting a $1,000 reward in the situation and paying to print indications, the optimistic obstetrician mentioned.
“I’m even now hopeful about New York, and feel actually observing the way the neighborhood has appear with each other and so quite a few individuals about the Upper East Side have posted and reposted and achieved out all my residency spouse and children has really pushed to spread the term, that has inspired me more and designed me imagine, Okay not everybody in New York is a pet snatcher,” she reported.