Family jewels

Burglars allegedly filched a trove of jewelry from a family owned business on Ferris Street overnight on Sept. 7.

The owner told police that he closed his shop, between Dikeman and Coffey streets, at 10 pm and that his mother returned at 4 am to start the next day. When the matriarch showed up, she discovered that the offices had been ransacked, the alarm system destroyed and the safe busted open.

According to the son, that safe contained more than $90,000 in jewelry and $180 in cash.

The invaders apparently broke in from the second-story roof

Kung-fu grip

A man held onto his wallet and fended off an attacker on West Ninth Street on Sept. 13.

The hooligan struck at 1:45 am and wrestled the 23-year-old victim to the ground between Henry and Clinton streets. But threats and physical force couldn’t get the young man to give up the goods, and eventually the mugger fled.

On a roll

Villains stole bicycles from an unguarded Carroll Street home on Sept. 7.

The victim told police he did not lock his back door while he was out of the residence between Clinton and Carroll streets from 6 pm to 7:30 pm. That gave the lawbreakers the chance to venture into the basement, hoist the bikes and one tire pump, and pedal to freedom.

Huff and puff

An intruder busted down a Second Place front door on Sept. 8 and stole some choice electronics.

The apartment, shared by a 28-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, was empty from 9 am to 1 pm. But when they returned, it was even emptier than they had planned.

The gatecrashers allegedly stole a laptop, computer gear, digital camera, iPod and a lady’s necklace from the home between Court and Smith streets.

Screwed

A hoodlum tried, but failed to break into a Third Place home on Sept. 9.

The resident, who was out from 9 am to 6 pm, found a screwdriver jammed into the lock of her front door. However, the entrance to the building between Clinton and Court streets was closed and nothing was taken from the apartment.

— Mike McLaughlin

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