Police Blotter
FIRST PRECINCT
Apple big bite
Police are still searching for a man
who allegedly busted open a window at
the Apple store at 103 Prince St. and
stole nearly $74,000 in Apple products
on Wed., Jan. 2 around 1 a.m.
A 911 caller reported in the dead of
night that a man broke in through the
window and crawled through to take
various iPads and iPhones, stuffi ng
them into a black plastic garbage bag,
according to the police report.
The Apple store’s alarm apparently
failed to go off, and two rocks were
found at the the scene.
The window-busting thief was described
as a white man, around 35
years old, and was last seen wearing a
black jacket, blue hooded sweatshirt,
dark blue jeans, black shoes, gloves and
a hat.
Canal crew
A 27-year-old man was walking on
Canal St. toward the J train when four
men allegedly snuck up from behind
and struck him in the face around 1:30
a.m. on Thurs., Jan. 3. The quartet of
muggers surrounded the victim, and
one demanded, “Give me everything
you have,” according to police.
He gave the perps his cellphone and
a Casio watch and ducked into a deli
on Canal.
The four suspects — whom the man
described as two black and two Hispanic
men — fl ed in an unknown direction.
New Year, new jacket
On New Year’s Day around noon,
a man reportedly walked into luxury
boutique Moncler at 99 Prince St., put
on a $2,780 jacket over his own, and
exited the store. He was described as
black, 5-feet-10-inches tall, and around
170 pounds, according to the report.
He was last seen wearing black jeans
and sneakers and a green sweatshirt
the day of the alleged shoplifting.
Mitsubishi fl ee
Police said a man stole more than
$5,000 worth of clothes from boutique
shop MCM, at 100 Greene St., on New
Year’s Eve just before noon. The suspect,
described as black, between 30
A surveillance camera video of the thief who broke into the Prince St.
Apple store and made off with more than $70,000 in tech gear.
and 40 years old, grabbed garments
near the front door and fl ed on Spring
St. in a 2018 black Mitsubishi Outlander
with New Jersey license plate number
D34JAJ. Video footage caught him
driving toward Brooklyn on the Manhattan
Bridge, according to police. He
was last seen wearing a black baseball
cap, jeans and coat.
SIXTH PRECINCT
New Year’s punch
Police arrested Robert Monteforte,
21, for allegedly punching a 22-yearold
man in the face in the Village just
after the ball dropped on New Year’s
Eve. Police said the victim was out
partying in the West Village and was
at the southwest corner of Washington
and Little W. 12th Sts. when the attack
happened. It’s unclear if the two men
knew each other.
Stolen Honda
Police said they arrested three men
and three women in a reportedly stolen
white 2017 Honda Accord at 410 W.
14th St. On the evening of Sun., Jan.
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
6, police observed someone inside the
parked and running car. When they
searched the vehicle’s plates, they found
that Jersey City police had reported it
stolen.
Cops arrested all six people in the
car, including men in their early 20s
and a 54-year-old woman. The district
attorney’s offi ce declined to prosecute
them, pending further investigation.
Crotch shots
Police arrested Catherine Limole,
52, on Wed., Jan. 2, for allegedly kicking
her boyfriend in the groin back in
mid-December at their apartment at 27
W. 11th St. Her boyfriend, 80, reported
that Limole had annoyed and harassed
him by talking loudly while he was
sleeping, which sparked an argument
on Sun., Dec. 16, around 1:20 a.m. Limole
then pushed the man and kicked
him in the groin two times, according
to the police report. The boyfriend obtained
a protection order against the
woman. Police said a similar incident
had happened to him previously.
iPhone 6
A man stole six iPhones from fi ve
women and a sixth unknown person
inside the Jane Hotel nightclub at 113
Jane St. around 1:30 a.m. on Tues., Jan.
1, according to police. After one of the
women told hotel staff that her phone
was stolen, security tracked down the
alleged thief, Evan Dawson, 29, and
reportedly found the woman’s property
inside his jacket along with fi ve other
cellphones.
NINTH PRECINCT /
FIFTH PRECINCT
Serial groper
Police arrested Ra’Shaun Kelley, 35,
after tying him to a string of at least fi ve
assaults or attempted rapes in late 2014
and early 2015.
Kelley, who the New York Post reported
was a Park Ave. lawyer by day,
was arrested for alleged burglary, sex
abuse and attempted rape last Fri., Jan.
4.
Police said that on Dec. 16, 2014,
Kelley grabbed a 19-year-old woman’s
butt and breasts from behind and tried
to kiss her while she was walking into
the elevator at an apartment building
near the F.D.R. Drive in the East Village.
The teen fought back and fl ed the
elevator and the building. The groping
perv then grabbed the woman’s butt
again before he ultimately fl ed.
A day later on Dec. 17, 2014, Kelley
followed a 20-year-old woman into her
apartment in the 30th Precinct in Upper
Manhattan and grabbed her back
and butt while covering her mouth.
In the Fifth Precinct, on the Lower
East Side, a 31-year-old woman was
entering her apartment building when
Kelley grabbed her waist and pulled her
pants down on Wed., Jan. 14, 2015. She
yelled out, and Kelley allegedly pushed
her and ran off.
Kelley is a suspect in two other incidents,
according to the Post. In one, a
25-year-old woman was groped in the
Ninth Precinct on Dec. 9, 2014, around
6:30 a.m. A second incident for which
Kelley is a suspect was when a 22-yearold
woman was sexually assaulted after
a man followed her into her apartment
building on E. Sixth St., on Sun., Dec.
28, 2014. The woman was injured and
transported to Beth Israel Hospital in
stable condition at the time, according
to police.
The string of incidents were connected
to the East Flatbush resident after
a Police Department Special Victims
Squad investigation, according to the
Post.
Sydney Pereira
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