Police Blotter
19th Precinct
A RealReal steal
A pricey wallet was reported stolen
from The RealReal earlier this month,
although the robbery occurred toward
the end of May.
According to police, a store employee
witnessed a woman enter the luxury
consignment store, at 870 Madison
Ave., at E. 71st St., on May 22 around
2:30 p.m., grab a $11,000 Hermes wallet
and fl ee.
Two weeks later, on June 6, the 31-
year-old store employee then reported
the wallet stolen to the police.
Phone scam
An Upper East Side grandmother
was swindled by a man impersonating
her grandson, police said.
On June 12, around 10 a.m. a 93-
year-old woman received a phone call
from a man claiming to her grandson.
The man said the had been arrested
and gave her what he claimed was his
lawyer’s number.
The worried woman called the phony
attorney, who told her she had to give
him $9,500 in cash so that her grandson
could be released from jail, according
to cops.
After going to her bank to withdraw
the funds, the woman paid the alleged
lawyer in person outside of her apartment
building. She eventually realized
she had been scammed, and reported
the encounter to the police around 7:39
p.m. that day.
According to police, the woman
could not remember what the fake lawyer
looked but remembers he got into a
gray vehicle after she paid him.
Box-cutter threat
A man was arrested for robbing a
CVS pharmacy and threatening an employee
with a boxcutter.
According to police, on June 13, at
about 12:28 a.m. an employee of the
store, at 1396 2nd Ave., at E. 72nd St.,
spotted a young man taking items off
of store shelves and placing them into
a bag.
The employee approached the individual
and asked him what was in the
bag, to which he replied, “It’s over.” After
the employee repeated his question,
the man whipped out a box cutter, with
blade out, and said “Get the f— back,”
before running out of the store.
Police arrested the shoplifter, 19,
who they said had taken 40 boxes of
Listerine Breath Strips worth $260
from the chain pharmacy.
A shot from Chase bank security camera footage of the man wanted for
attempted robbery at its 225 Columbus Ave. branch.
20th precinct
Chase case
Police are looking for a man wanted
for trying to rob a Chase bank by passing
a note.
According to police, on June 6,
around 3:15 p.m., a man walked into
the bank, at 225 Columbus Ave., at W.
70th St., and passed a note to a teller
demanding $10,000 and instructing
him to remain calm and “act as if nothing
was wrong.”
When the teller refused to for over
cash, the thief became irate, which
caught the attention of the bank manager.
The manager then witnessed the
man leave the bank empty-handed.
Citrus situation
Two teens were arrested on the Upper
West Side after allegedly threatening
a store employee with a knife and
stealing oranges.
According to police, on June 4, an
employee of Broadway Farm grocery
store, at 2341 Broadway, at W. 85th
St., witnessed one of the youths stealing
two oranges from the outdoor fruit
stand.
The 73-year-old employee approached
the young thief, who promptly punched
him in the face. Shortly after hitting the
worker, the assailant asked a younger
sidekick standing behind him “to pass
him the knife,” according to police.
The employee told offi cers that second
kid passed the other one a knife,
which the assailant then used to try and
slash him across the stomach.
After a foot pursuit, offi cers were
able to apprehend both teens. One was
18 and the other 14.
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Wallet grab
A woman said her credit card was
stolen from her purse while she was at
the movies.
According to police, on June 9,
around 7:15 p.m. a 48-year-old woman
noticed that her wallet was missing
from her purse after watching a movie
at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater, at
W. 68th St. and Broadway.
Shortly afterward, she received an
alert that a purchase of $1,033.22 had
been charged to her credit card.
iPhone whodunnit
A woman reportedly had her iPhone
stolen by someone pretending to be her
building’s super.
On June 10, at about 3:08 p.m., a 22-
year-old woman received notifi cation
that her new iPhone XS had been delivered
and signed for by her W. 82nd St.
building super, according to police.
Once she arrived home at 5 p.m., the
package was nowhere to be found and
the super stated he had not signed for
any items delivered to her that day. The
phone was worth $1,050.
Stolen mascara
On June 15, a man and a woman allegedly
stole $7,630 worth of mascara
from a Blue Mercury store at 184 Columbus
Ave., at W. 68th St.
According to police, a store employee
witnessed the pair enter the place
around 7:10 p.m. and grab two large
jars containing 109 tubes of mascara
before running out of the shop.
24th precinct
Abusive boyfriend
A woman was sprayed in the face
with an unknown substance and threatened
by her boyfriend, police said.
According to cops, the 24-year-old
victim told offi cers that on June 12, at
10:30 a.m., during an argument, her
boyfriend sprayed her in the face with
what she thought was Lysol.
She further said that, after the altercation,
he then threatened via text message
to kill her and himself.
Fake fi rearm
A man stole a woman’s backpack after
pretending he had a gun.
On June 16, around 3:50 a.m., a 54-
year-old woman was walking to the
intersection of Broadway and W. 88th
St. when a man approached her from
behind and “simulated a fi rearm in the
middle of her back,” police said.
The thug then told the woman, “Just
drop the bag.” The woman dropped
her bookbag, ran and jumped into a
cab. The backpack contained the woman’s
keys, wallet and college textbooks
worth a total of $425.
Doctored check
A woman discovered that a check
she had mailed in March was cashed by
a stranger in June.
On March 10, the woman wrote
a check for $37 to Con Edison and
dropped it in a mailbox at 1674 10th
Ave., in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn.
According to police, on June 4, the
woman’s bank app notifi ed her that a
check of hers was cashed for $3,700 by a
person — whom she did not know — after
having been deposited at a TD Bank
ATM at 2521 Broadway, at W. 94th St.
Box-cutter attack
A woman cut a man across the face
with box cutter on June 13, police said.
According to police, the 32-year-old
victim was out getting food and was in
front of 120 W. 91st St., between Columbus
and Amsterdam Aves., when a
woman behind him cut his left check
with a box cutter, leaving a 3-inch laceration.
The victim told offi cers that he
had never seen the woman before.
Alejandra
O’Connell-Domenech
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