November 19, 2008 / News / Police Blotter / Park Slope

Beer boozer burglar!

By Gersh Kuntzman

for The Brooklyn Paper

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Double trouble

A Seventh Avenue woman was a victim of a burglary — for the second time this year! — when a thief broke into her apartment on Nov. 10 and took digital goodies.

The 24-year-old told police that she was not home from 9:15 am to 8:30 pm, when she returned to find that the read window had been broken and two cameras missing from the apartment, which is at Seventh Street.

The thief also grabbed some turquoise jewelry.

Cops said the same thing happened to her back in January.

Flipped lid

Thieves raised the roof at a popular Seventh Avenue burger joint earlier this summer, stealing an air-conditioner unit, but avoiding detection until last week.

The owner of the restaurant, which is at the corner of Ninth Street, told cops that the theft of the $7,000 compressor plus hundreds of dollars more in pipes and other equipment must have occurred between July 10 and July 25 — but he didn’t report it until Nov. 12 “for insurance purposes,” police said.

Adults’ play

A thief stole a video game unit from a woman’s Sixth Avenue apartment sometime between Nov. 6 and Nov. 11 — while she was staying with a friend, cops said.

The 27-year-old victim told police that she was away from her apartment, which is at Fourth Street, during that time and returned to find the home ransacked and the Playstation unit gone.

Worker’s comp?

A thief took a computer and other high-end goods from a Sixth Street apartment on Nov. 12.

The 52-year-old victim told police that she had not been home between 10:30 am and 3:30 pm, when she discovered that her front door had been busted open and her laptop, checkbook, jewelry box and fancy purse were gone.

She told cops that the only people who had been in the flat were workmen and her landlord — but the signs of forced entry suggest that another person had been in the unit, too.

TV break

A thief busted into a Seventh Avenue apartment on Nov. 14 — and walked out with a computer, two digital cameras and $80.

The tenant of the apartment, which is between Union and President streets, told police that she was not home between 8:30 am and 6 pm.

A neighbor told cops that he heard “ a tapping sound” around 10:30 am, and another witness, who owns the TV repair store on the ground floor, told cops about a suspicious individual he saw in front of the building.

Wheel trouble

There were at least four cars stolen off local streets last week — most of them near the corner of President Street and Fourth Avenue. Here’s a roundup from that hot corner:

• A man who parked his 2004 Mazda on Nov. 6 returned to it three days later to find it gone. Cops are searching for the car, which has the New York plate EDF-3434.

• An upstate man who parked his 1998 Saturn at around 7:30 pm on Nov. 3 returned to it on Nov. 9 to find it gone.

• A woman who parked her 2007 Honda at around 3 pm on Nov. 6 returned two days later to find it missing.

In addition to these heists, a thief snatched a primo set of wheels — a 1992 Honda valued at all of $100 — from its spot on Seventh Avenue at Eighth Street sometime between Oct. 19 and Nov. 16, cops said. It is unclear when the car was actually taken.

Also, a workingman’s van was broken into inside the Lowe’s hardware store parking lot at around 11:30 am on Nov. 8 and more than $2,000 in tools were lifted from the lot, which is on Ninth Street between Second Avenue and the dirty Gowanus Canal. Cops are reviewing the tapes.

Over the same weekend, a van parked across the street from Lowe’s was busted into between 2 pm on Nov. 7 and 8:30 am on Nov. 10. In this massive theft, the crook got away with a $5 measuring tape and a Ford owner’s manual of undetermined value.

— Gersh Kuntzman

©2008 The Brooklyn Paper

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