March 8, 2008: Vol. 31, No. 10

Thieves on wheels plundered a parked commercial truck laden with valuable tools on Sackett Street on Feb. 21.

A witness eyeballed a man as he disembarked from a car driven by a woman near a van stationed between Columbia and Hicks streets at around 4 pm.

The thief jimmied open a rear door and filched $800 worth of gadgets from the vehicle, owned by a local home repair company.

Take-out

A well-known Smith Street restaurant was burgled for petty cash on Feb. 16.

An employee noticed that someone smashed a rear window after the restaurant, between Douglass and Degraw streets, closed at 2 am and before reopening at 12:30 pm.

Once inside the bistro, the worker discovered that $100 had been stolen.

It’s trucked up

Vandals stole products and equipment from a truck parked in front of a business on Van Brunt Street sometime between Feb. 23 and 25.

A thief grabbed $350 worth of paper — yes, paper — and a hand truck from the parked vehicle, which had been left between Visitation Place and Pioneer Street, during the 36-hour gap.

Bump and run

Two women staged a collision with another lady at the corner of Union and Court streets and stole her wallet on Feb. 25.

The victim, en route to the subway, thought nothing of the “accidental” bump from two tricksters — until she realized her wallet, containing $10, and the cons were long gone.

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper