Police Blotter
‘Trolley Robber’
Police said that on Thurs. Nov. 1,
around 1:10 p.m., inside a residential
building in the vicinity of St. Mark’s
Place and Second Ave., a burglar
gained entry into a 38-year-old man’s
apartment through the unsecured front
door. Once inside, he removed the victim’s
camera equipment, jewelry and a
trolley suitcase. The individual fl ed on
foot with the rolling suitcase eastbound
on St. Marks Place.
On Wed., Nov. 7, around 4:15 p.m.,
according to police, the same guy got
inside of an apartment of a 30-year-old
woman in the vicinity of E. Third St.
and First Ave. through an unsecured
rear bedroom window. Again, he took
the victim’s camera equipment, jewelry
and a trolley suitcase, and fl ed on foot
on E. Third St.
The suspect is black, last seen wearing
a black baseball cap, a white hooded
sweater, a black vest, dark-colored
jeans and gray-and-white sneakers.
Anyone with information is asked
to call the Police Department’s Crime
Stoppers Hotline, at 800-577-TIPS, or
for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Tips can also be submitted on the
Crime Stoppers Web site, www.nypdcrimestoppers.
com, on Twitter at @
NYPDTips or by texting to 274637
(CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.
All tips are confi dential.
Deli-cate situation
The Errand Grocery and Deli, at
Eighth Ave. and W. 13 St., was robbed
on Mon., Aug. 27, at 2:50 a.m., according
to police. A store employee said a
man entered the deli and had a “dark
brown gun” and demanded money. The
robber then picked up a knife from the
deli area and walked back to the register,
which the employee opened and
the crook took about $500 cash. The
thief then dropped the knife near the
register and fl ed north toward W. 14
St. Video surveillance from the deli
was later available, along with video at
other nearby locations.
Thomas Jackson, 50, was arrested
Nov. 7 for felony robbery.
H.R.A. hubbub
On Wed., Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m., a man
stood outside the New York City Human
Resources Administration building
at 12 W. 14th St. and shouted obscene
and abusive language at building
security, police said. When an H.R.A.
security offi cer told the man to move
N.Y.P.D.
A surveillance camera image of
an alleged East Village burglar.
His M.O. seems to be always to
flee with at least one piece of
rolling luggage.
because he was blocking the front entrance,
he refused, spat on the offi cer
and grabbed the door and broke its inside
handle. Edward Bullock, 31, was
arrested by the H.R.A. offi cer for misdemeanor
criminal mischief.
Soho shoplifters
Around 4 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 7,
three shoplifters stole items from two
high-end Soho fashion shops, the Gucci
store at 63 Wooster St. and the Louis
Vuitton shop at 116 Greene St., according
to a police report.
A male witness in the Gucci store
said that three people entered and then
removed a handbag, with a woman hiding
it in her black shoulder bag as all
three exited.
At the second location, the robbers
would go on to steal three wallets and
an Alma BB Louis Vuitton bag. The fi ve
stolen items’ total value was $7,590.
Video was available at the fi rst location.
Two suspects were arrested
on Nov. 7, Luz Garcia, 34, and Felix
Miranda, 46, for felony grand larceny.
None of the stolen items were recovered.
Stair-bnb
On Mon., Nov. 5, at 4 p.m., an employee
of an unoccupied residential
building up for sale at 11 W. Ninth St.
entered and found an unknown man
lying on the fi rst-fl oor stair landing,
police said. The employee told the intruder
he couldn’t be there, to which
the man replied, “Why? This space is
empty.”
The man then left, and further investigation
found the front door damaged
and two mirrored medicine cabinets
in the building to be broken, along
with water damage from a faucet having
been left on. Cell-phone video was
taken by the building employee.
Two days later on Nov. 7, Timoor
Girodes, 41, was arrested for felony
burglary.
Sexy whodunit
On Sat., Nov. 10 at 3 a.m., a man
was walking home when he realized he
forgot his wallet on the counter inside
the lingerie shop Sexy Boutique, at 155
Eighth Ave., according to police. The
man, 36, went back but the store employee
said he didn’t see his property.
The man looked around the store and
found his wallet in a trash bin with
$225 cash removed. He told police
there are cameras at the shop, but there
are currently no leads of who the thief
is, and the case remains open.
10th Ave. freeze out
An cop spotted a man making graffi
ti on the sidewalk without permission
at Tenth Ave. and 26 St., around 11
p.m. on Sat., Nov. 10, police said. The
man used a green spray-paint can on
a cutout stencil of various words, and
after being searched, he was reportedly
found to have other “graffi ti instruments”
on him, as well. Kimron Lucas,
35, was arrested for making graffi ti, a
misdemeanor.
Bouncer ‘harasser’
A harassment report was fi led about
an alleged incident at the Highline Ballroom
at 431 W. 16th St. on Sun., Nov.
11, at 1:30 a.m., police said. A woman,
25, was dancing in the live music venue,
when she bumped into a bouncer, who
then forcefully grabbed her by the arms
and led her out of the nightclub, causing
the woman “alarm and annoyance,”
according to the report, which said the
bouncer’s identity was unknown.
Door whodunit
Around 3 p.m. on Sat., Nov. 10, an
unknown person banged loudly fi ve
times on a man’s apartment door at
428 W. 26 St, causing the resident to
be alarmed, according to police. He
also told police that when he came
home earlier in the day, someone had
urinated in front of his door. It was unknown
if the same person committed
both acts, and there were no leads in
the report.
Obnoxious
uncoupling
A police report was fi led for misdemeanor
illegal eviction, during a domestic
disturbance on Fri., Nov. 9, at 1:15
a.m. in an apartment at 620 W. 42nd
St., according to police. A woman, 31,
told police that her husband argued
with her over their impending divorce,
and also about her not paying rent. She
said that her hubbie, 37, then yanked
her out of the apartment and tossed her
belongings out the door, saying, “Get
out now!” About an hour later, the husband
agreed to let his wife back in. The
man was not arrested.
Cut and dry
Police are on the trail of a razorwielding
nut job who slashed a man on
State St. on Nov. 10.
The victim told police the suspect
sliced his head and neck with the box
cutter between Pearl and Whitehall
Sts. at 5:43 p.m., before hightailing it
on foot.
Paramedics found the victim bloodied,
but alert, and took him to New
York Downtown Hospital for treatment,
cops said.
Gabe Herman
and Colin Mixson
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