March 18, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Fort Greene

His ‘Target’ is purses

By Mike McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper

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Target snatch

A deft purse-snatcher robbed three women in Target on Flatbush Avenue while their shopping carts were momentarily unattended on the afternoon of March 15.

The first filching occurred at 2:30 pm when a 30-year-old woman said someone stole her cellphone, debit card and driver’s license from her cart while she bent down to look at a pair of shoes.

An hour and a half later at the same store in the Bruce Ratner-controlled mall, a woman, 32, said a thief took her purse, containing two cellphones and $1,300, when she retrieved some items from a shelf.

Moments later, another woman said her pocketbook was taken. She reported losing $300 and her cellphone.

Quiet as a mouse

A burglar broke into and looted a Clinton Avenue home on March 9 while residents were sleeping.

Residents of the townhouse, between Lafayette and Greene avenues, told police they were asleep between 2:30 and 8:30 am (the nerve!). When an 88-year-old, third-floor tenant awoke, she discovered that her front and back doors were open. A little later, she noticed that someone had rummaged through a dresser, but had apparently not taken anything.

But a woman who lived upstairs was not as lucky, as the thief stole her CD player, some Louis Vuitton and Coach bags, an assortment of jewelry, Nike sneakers and a computer.

Spoonman

Police arrested a man for swatting another man with a spoon at Food House on DeKalb Avenue on March 9.

Police had little other information about the 3 pm attack by the utensil-wielding menace, 47, in the Chinese and Mexican takeout joint near the corner of Ashland Place.

Two bad

Two similar muggings marred the morning of March 9 in Fort Greene.

At 9:30 am, two teens targeted a man, 28, at the corner of Myrtle and Vanderbilt avenues. One said, “Give us everything you got,” so the victim offered $50 from his wallet. But when the punks insisted that he give everything from his wallet, as well as his iPod, the victim cursed and the duo ran off.

About an hour later on Adelphi Street, between DeKalb and Lafayette avenues, two teen troublemakers — likely the same kids, but now armed with a knife — ordered a 26-year-old man to empty his pockets. The victim offered what he had, but the crooks didn’t take anything.

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