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Shutterbug shattered

By Evan Gardner
The Brooklyn Paper

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Someone broke into a Cranberry Street apartment on April 18 and stole more than $600,000 worth of photographic equipment.

The victim, a professional photographer, told cops that he left his apartment, located between Columbia Heights and Willow Street, at 8:50 am. When he returned at 2 pm, the equipment, which included several specialized lenses and was worth $625,575, was gone.

Pushed around

A man shoved a pedestrian on Hoyt Street on April 20 and stole his laptop, but he was quickly tackled by a nearby cop — unfortunately, without the computer.

The victim told cops he was walking on the corner of Pacific streets at 10 am when someone came up behind him, pushed him to the ground, and grabbed his Apple laptop. When the victim started yelling, “he robbed me,” a police officer responded and chased the robber down.

Unfortunately, the perp had already ditched the laptop by the time he was caught, and the computer could not be located.

Atlantic break-in

Someone smashed in the door of an Atlantic Avenue apartment on April 18 and stole $2,250 worth of stuff.

The owner returned to the apartment, located between Clinton and Court streets, at 7:45 pm, to discover that two laptops and a pair of diamond earrings were missing.

There were several security cameras near the scene of the crime, but police were not immediately able to check the footage.

Safe cracked

Someone cracked the safe in the basement of a Court Street grocery store on April 15 and stole more than $22,000.

Police believe the robber entered Cobblestone Foods, located between Congress and Warren streets, through an unlocked basement door sometime between 9 pm on April 14 and 6 am the following morning.

— Evan Gardner

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

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