HEWLETT, Long Island (WABC) -- A man is under arrest on Long Island after police say he broke into an Islamic center and stole money out of the charity box.According to police, Huzaifa Shafeeq, 22, of Valley Stream entered Five Towns Islamic Center in Hewlett through a window on Dec. 25th and again on Jan. 1st and removed an undisclosed amount of cash.He was arrested at his home without incident.Shafeeq is charged with third-degree burglary.Islamic Center board member Iqbal Rasheed says the amount taken wasn't large. He says the center's leaders felt the thief needed help, so they called police.He says he doesn't know Shafeeq personally.</s>Police say a man stole from a Long Island mosque's charity donations box on Christmas and New Year's Day.Huzaifa Shafeeq was arraigned on burglary charges Monday, when bail was set at $1,500. There was no immediate response to a message left with the Legal Aid Society, which represented him.Nassau County police say the 22-year-old got in through a window at the Islamic Center of the Five Towns, in Hewlett, and took cash from a charity box on the two Sunday holidays.Islamic Center board member Iqbal Rasheed says the amount taken wasn't large. He says the center's leaders felt the thief needed help, so they called police.He says he doesn't know Shafeeq personally.</s>A man is under arrest on Long Island after police say he broke into an Islamic center and stole money out of the charity box.According to police, Huzaifa Shafeeq, 22, of Valley Stream entered Five Towns Islamic Center in Hewlett through a window on Dec. 25th and again on Jan. 1st and removed an undisclosed amount of cash.He was arrested at his home without incident.Shafeeq is charged with third-degree burglary.</s>A Valley Stream man has been arrested and charged with burglarizing the Five Towns Islamic Center in Hewlett on Christmas Day and again on New Year’s Day, police said.

Huzaifa Shafeeq, 22, was awaiting arraignment Monday on two counts of burglary in the third degree, Nassau County police said.

He was arrested at his home on Fairfax Street at 6:18 p.m. Sunday and charged with entering the Islamic Center through a window and taking an undisclosed amount of cash from a charity box on both days, police said.</s>Two men arraigned on auto burglary charges Travis Brewton and Aaron Brown were arraigned in district court on multiple charges stemming from an incident in November. Check out this story on Daily-Times.com: http://www.daily-times.com/story/news/crime/2017/01/03/two-men-arraigned-auto-burglary-charges/96117132/ AZTEC - Two men accused of committing auto burglaries and larceny pleaded not guilty to multiple charges in district court today.

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Huzaifa Shafeeq was arraigned on burglary charges after police say the stole from a Long Island mosque charity box on Christmas and New Years Day. Islamic Center board member said the amount taken wasn't large, but called police as the thief needed help.