78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Pick and dip
A pickpocket made off with a
woman’s wallet from inside an Atlantic
Avenue shopping center on
Nov. 25.
The victim told police she recalls
somebody brushing against her
while she was inside the mall near
Flatbush Avenue at 4:30 pm, and that
she noticed her wallet missing a few
minutes later when she headed into
a changing room at a nearby clothing
store.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Hammer time
Cops arrested a woman for allegedly
using someone’s personal
information to steal a whopping
$191,000 worth of merchandise from
a Second Avenue hardware store
from Oct. 2 through Nov. 26.
The suspect used another person’s
information to open a credit account
with the store between Ninth
and 12th streets, where he racked up
a fortune’s worth of charges, while
signing the victim’s name, according
to police.
Police cuffed the suspect after
her fraud was discovered on Nov.
28, charging her with felony grand
larceny, cops said.
Stinky thief
Police have thrown up their
hands in the hunt for the stinky
thief who nabbed 20 sticks of deodorant
from a Flatbush Avenue
pharmacy on Nov. 26.
An employee told police the
crook nabbed the products from the
drugstore between Prospect Place
and Seventh Avenue at 7:10 am, before
fl eeing with his ill-gotten antiperspirant.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Bad Trek
Some crook rode off with a man’s
Trek bike he parked on Seventh Avenue
on Nov. 30.
The victim told police he left his
bike locked to a rack near Ninth
Street at 3 am, and returned later
that evening to fi nd his broken lock
lying on the ground and his pedalpowered
ride stolen.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Choo-choo
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing a metal “Christmas
train statue” from the front stairs
of a man’s Lincoln Place home on
Dec. 1.
The victim told police he spotted
the suspect with his precious
holiday decoration left on the steps
of his home between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at 1:50 pm.
Police swooped in to cuff the
sculpture poacher, charging him
with petit larceny, cops said.
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Strike!
Some ne’er-do-well absconded
with a woman’s purse as she played
the pins at a 37th Street bowling alley
on Dec. 9.
The victim told police she was
gunning for strikes at the lanes between
Fourth and Fifth avenues at
12:15 am, when the thief snatched
her bag while her back was turned,
nabbing an expensive camera and
iPhone X in the process.
No arrests have been made in
the case, which remains open, cops
said.
Caught dead
Cops busted a man caught trespassing
at 25th Street cemetery on
Dec. 9.
Security at the sprawling 19thcentury
necropolis told police they
spotted the suspect lurking inside
the graveyard at 11:55 pm, well after
the boneyard’s 5 pm closing time,
and claim he tried to fl ee when they
approached him, at one point busting
a wooden door.
Police arrested the suspect that
day, charging him with burglary,
cops said.
Got milk?
Police cuffed a 23-year-old
woman for allegedly attacking a
worker with a milk crate inside a
38th Street hotel on Dec. 5.
The victim told police the suspect
was upset about a problem with
her room at the inn between Third
and Fourth avenues at 6 am, when
she snatched the plastic crate and
used it to strike her in the face.
During the fi ght, the suspect
grabbed the victim’s phone and tried
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to fl ee with it, but reporting offi cers
caught her in the hallway of the hotel,
where she fought with cops before
they could subdue her, according
to police, who said the suspect is
being charged with robbery.
Sucker-punched
A would-be thief beat a man amid
an attempted robbery on 53rd Street
on Dec. 4.
The victim told police the crook
jumped him near Seventh Avenue
at 12:40 am, sucker-punching him in
the face and then throwing him to
the ground, before rifl ing through
his pockets in an attempt to grab
his stuff.
Fortunately, the bandit failed
to grab anything of value and fl ed
empty handed, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Street attack
Cops cuffed a guy for attacking a
man and then stealing his cellphone
on DeKalb Avenue on Dec. 3.
The victim told police he was
leaving work near Clermont Avenue
a little before 9 am when the
suspect attacked him from behind,
cutting his face, and grabbed his
phone from his hand, according to
authorities.
Booze bozo
Some sneak stole a bottle of alcohol
and an electronic from a Flushing
Avenue restaurant on Dec. 3, police
said.
The jerk pried open the front door
of the eatery near Clermont Avenue
a little before 8 am and ran out with
a bottle of Grey Goose vodka and a
Samsung tablet, according to the
police report.
No tip
A nogoodnik swiped cash and
an electronic from a Myrtle Avenue
bar on Dec. 4, police said.
The cur broke into the bar near
Classon Avenue at about 10:45 am
and stole a wad of cash, a jar of
change, and a tablet, according to
authorities.
Shutterbug
Some lout stole a guy’s pricey
camera from a park bench on S. Oxford
Street on Dec. 6, police said.
The victim told cops he was sitting
on a bench inside a park near
DeKalb Avenue at about 9:20 pm
when a baddie ran up and grabbed
his Canon camera with several
lenses on it and ran away towards
Brooklyn Hospital.
The victim was sitting with his
back towards the good-for-nothing
and didn’t see who it was, according
to cops.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Six against one
A pack of six scoundrels stole a
guy’s cellphone from a Fulton Street
store on Dec. 7, police said.
The victim told cops the six baddies
grabbed an iPhone from the
victim and ran out of the store near
Gallatin Place at about 8 pm, breaking
the glass on the way out, according
to authorities.
What a bus-t!
Cops cuffed a guy for hitting a
bus driver while she was working
on Livingston Street on Dec. 7.
The 25-year-old suspect socked
the 57-year-old driver while she was
working near Hoyt Street at about
noon and then kicked the glass door
of the bus, according to authorities.
Paramedics transported the victim
to Cobble Hill Hospital, police
said.
Bling bandit
Some sneak stole a woman’s jewelry
from her Duffi eld Street hotel
room on Dec. 2, police said.
The victim told cops she left her
jewelry bag in a suitcase in her hotel
room near Fulton Street before
going shopping at about 9:30 am.
When she returned a few hours
later, she noticed one of each pair of
her earrings were gone, according
to authorities.
Diamond trade
A con artist stole a diamond ring
from a Fulton Street mall on Nov.
24, police said.
Store owners on Dec. 4 told cops
that the fraudster swapped a fake
ring for a $4,000 real one inside the
store near Hoyt Street, according to
authorities. — Julianne Cuba
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