November 19, 2008 / News / Police Blotter / Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

Bikerman thief

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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Bike-by mugging

A vicious cyclist shoved a 24-year-old woman to the street and grabbed her purse on Nov. 13.

The pedal-pushing perp pushed the victim at the corner of Leonard and Meserole streets at around 2:15 am, as she walked home from a bar.

“Give me your f—ing purse,” the thug demanded, before grabbing the Coach bag, which contained IDs, credit cards, a BlackBerry cellphone and $30.

Watery torture

Two copper crooks flooded a Keap Street building when they cut a crucial water line during a botched Nov. 12 burglary.

The thieves broke into a basement between 1 and 7 am and tried to lift the increasingly valuable metal, but they severed the main in the process. The thieves fled from the inundated building, which is between Union Avenue and Ainslie Street, and escaped with only a copper wire and a copper pipe.

Don’t steal music

Thieves broke into a Manhattan Avenue bar overnight on Nov. 10 and snatched some high-end DJing equipment.

The musical marauders got into the nightclub between 7 pm and 8:30 am the next morning and grabbed the $600 mixer before fleeing from the venue, which is between McKibbin and Boerum streets.

Gold metalist

An employee at a Graham Avenue jewelry shop turned out to be a compulsive crook suspected of heisting nearly $100,000 of bling since August.

Between Aug. 25 and Oct. 25, the worker heisted hundreds of valuable trinkets including gold chains, bracelets, pendants and diamond rings from the shop, which is between Seigel and McKibben Streets.

Jew-elry thief

Cops are on the hunt for what they described as a Hasidic woman who snatched two sets of earrings from a Lee Avenue jewelry shop on Nov. 11.

The crook snatched the gold and diamond trinkets — which are valued at about $1,400 — at around 4:10 pm, then fled from the shop, which is between Hooper and Hewes streets.

Pickpockets picked

Police nabbed two teens suspected of snatching a 52-year-old man’s wallet as he walked down Manhattan Avenue on Oct. 11.

An officer observed the alleged thieves jostle their victim at around 1:30 pm on a crowded sidewalk between Montrose Avenue and Meserole Street, before snatching his black leather wallet from his rear pant pocket.

Cops caught a 15-year-old and a 13-year-old, but another suspect escaped with the wallet, which contained an ID and a debit card.

Construx caper

High-speed hoodlums heisted construction tools valued at $2,700 from a worker’s van during a five-minute period on Nov. 11.

The thieves broke into the Chevy van between 11:30 am and 11:35 pm and snatched a hammer, a rotary laser saw, and a steel saw from the vehicle, which was parked on Hope Street between Roebling and Havemeyer streets.

— Ben Muessig

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

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