Residents of one Queens neighborhood say an 82-year-old neighbor has become a nuisance, and they want police to do something about it. NY1's Ruschell Boone filed the following report.

This 82-year-old man is not just walking his dog. Residents say he's also checking to see if parked cars are unlocked. If they are, they say he often goes in and takes what he wants. 

"Enough is enough," said resident Rudy Masi. "We got to stop this."

While this kind of activity is harmless to some, many Middle Village residents say the man has been doing this for about three years. 

"OK, so he's 82. But I think it's a conscious effort on his part to do things like this, and you've got to be stopped," Masi said. "He's robbing. Stealing."

Sonia Saavedra says her young daughter is still traumatized by her run-in with the man.

"She thinks he's going to do something to us," Saavedra said.

As she was placing her 5-year-old in the back seat, she says he was on the other side of the car, bent over and going through her possessions in the front. Her daughter's scream alerted her. 

"I took his picture. I showed the police. They said, 'Oh, he's harmless. He's just looking for change,'" Saavedra said.

But one person who did not want to be identified said he has taken a lot more than change from her and other residents in the neighborhood.  

"Colognes, cellphones, computers," the person said. "Whatever he can take."

A civic association leader shot video two weeks ago and called police, who caught him rummaging for change and gave him a desk appearance ticket.

Residents say a few days later, he was right back at it. 

"Because he's older, he can get away with it? He curses me out. He tells me he knows he's not going to get in trouble because he says nothing is going to happen to him."

No one answered when NY1 went to the man's door. When we called, his wife said he has Alzheimer's. She denied he had ever gone through anyone's car, and added that neighbors should simply lock their cars anyway. 

Residents say they do not believe he is ill and that police should keep him from their vehicles. 

The Queens district attorney says the man is scheduled to be arraigned in June on third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle and petit larceny charges..