August 18, 2007 / News / Police Blotter / Bay Ridge–Bensonhurst

Breaks into kitchen, steals $1,000 knife

By Matthew Lysiak and Michael Giardina

for The Brooklyn Paper

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This must be one nice kitchen.

A thief with a taste for fine cutlery broke into a Third Avenue restaurant and made off with some change and one expensive knife on Aug. 11.

An employee discovered the robbery shortly after he opened the doors at 1 pm and noticed an exhaust fan in the kitchen had been pushed in to create a hole through which the perp crawed into the restaurant, which is near 93rd Street.

Further inspection revealed the register opened and $100 in change missing. But the biggest loss was the high-end knife, which was valued at $1,000, cops said.

Wallet fumble

A man’s wallet was swiped by a thief with chutzpah on 65th Street, near 24th Avenue, on Aug. 11.

The 49-year-old victim didn’t realize his wallet, which contained $150 and his credit and debit cards, was gone until after the thief had fled.

But this wasn’t the end of fiasco. Moments later, the victim received a phone call from the thief asking for his ATM code — which he foolishly gave to the perp, police said.

With the new information, the sneaky thug managed to make two purchases with the cards before the victim could cancel them.

Brooklyn cell

A gang of five mugged a 19-year-old-man for his iPod and phone as he walked on 11th Avenue on Aug. 10.

The victim told police that he was near the corner of 78th Street at 12:35 am when the quintet approached him and demanded his phone.

The men didn’t wait for the phone to be handed over, grabbing it, plus the man’s iPod, before fleeing on 78th Street.

Brutal mug

A man was beaten in the face and robbed on Fort Hamilton Parkway on August 10.

The 53-year-old victim was walking near 79th Street at 8:15 pm when he was blind-sided by a punch in the head followed by a swift kick to the face. The thug then stole $240 out of the victim’s pocket before fleeing in an unknown direction on foot, according to police.

Violent beating

A man was violently beaten and robbed on 85th Street on Aug. 12.

The 52-year-old victim was punched in the back of the neck while walking near Seventh Avenue shortly before 4 pm. Once the man fell to the ground, the thug then punched him in the face several more times before stealing his wallet and fleeing in an unknown direction on foot, according to cops.

Fortunately, the wallet had no cash.

Cuisine steal

An 86th Street restaurant was robbed by sneaky thieves who broke through a sliding door and stole more than $700 on Aug. 10, police said.

The eatery, which is near 23rd Avenue, was broken into at around 4 am. The thugs fled the store before cops arrived, but unfortunately for them it was all caught on video surveillance.

Daytime burg

A woman returned to her West Sixth Street apartment to find that thugs had broken in, ransacked the place and stole her property on Aug. 8.

The 21-year-old came back to her home, which is near Avenue O, at around 5:30 pm. While she was away at work, the thieves managed bust open her front door and steal $5,000 in electronics, cash and jewelry, police said.

Cash and carry

A man told cops that $100,000 — in cash! — was stolen out of a safe in his Bay 32nd Street apartment on Aug. 8.

The 37-year-old left his home, which is near 86th Street, at around 5:30 am, and returned to find that thieves had ransacked the apartment and stolen his prized safe, which contained $100,000, and jewelry, he told cops.

Biking blues

A 24-year-old who had his bike stolen by three thugs in a 19th Avenue park, later helped cops nab the trio on Aug. 7.

The bike swipe occurred within the park, which is near 80th Street, at around 12:25 pm. The group of thugs surrounded victim and swiped his blue mountain bike.

With the help of the victim, police caught the trio a couple of blocks down from the playground, and returned the bike to its rightful owner.

Workout woes

A man had his wallet stolen on Aug. 7 as he worked out in an 86th Street gym that is a well known to Police Blotter readers as a frequent crime scene.

The 45-year-old man finished his workout at the gym, which is near 19th Avenue, at around 6:40 pm to find his wallet missing from his locker.

The thieves took $150, and charged more than $76 on his credit cards, police said.

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