May 6, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Park Slope

Foodie is fouled!

By Gersh Kuntzman

for The Brooklyn Paper

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Foodie foul

A member of the Park Slope Food Co-op was brutally attacked and mugged for her cellphone on April 30.

The victim, 33, told cops that she had just left the Union Street foodie paradise, which is between Sixth and Seventh avenues, at around 9 pm when a man approached from behind, knocked her to the ground, punched her face and head, and stole the Sprint mobile.

A witness followed, but lost sight of the mugger as he fled eastbound on Lincoln Place.

Three burgs

At least three apartments were broken into last week. Here are the gristly details:

• A thief nabbed a Mac laptop after breaking into an apartment on Baltic Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around 9:45 pm on April 27. The thief must have been stealthy, as the tenant told cops that she was home at the time of the break-in.

• Another thief got another laptop in a burglary of a President Street apartment on April 30. In this case, the victim told cops that he was not home between 8 am and 8:45 pm, when the thief entered through a rear kitchen window of the first-floor unit, which is between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

• That same day, a thief broke into a building right next door, this time getting a fancy digital camera from a fourth-floor apartment. In this case, the resident told cops that the apartment was vacant between 11 am and 11:05 pm.

Car craziness

It’s Park Slope, so it’s no surprise that five car break-ins were reported last week in a precinct that has seen an 81-percent uptick in car crimes over the last 12 months:

• The reign of terror began overnight on April 24, when a thief made off with a 24-year-old 12th Street resident’s Honda Civic. The victim told cops that he had parked the car between Third and Fourth avenues at 4 pm and returned to it at noon the next day to find it gone.

• A thief stole $5,000 in surgical equipment after breaking into a late model Nissan on Fifth Street on April 28. The 25-year-old victim told cops that he had parked between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West at around 10 am, but found the rear window smashed and the equipment gone when he returned at 9:30 pm.

• A Pennsylvania man lost a laptop after a thief busted into his 2007 Ford Edge, which he had parked on Prospect Place at 10:30 pm on May 1. When the man returned to the car, which was between Sixth and Seventh avenues, about 19 hours later, he discovered the broken window and missing stuff.

• An unlocked car was an open invitation to a thief, who let himself in to the 2004 Toyota and stole a laptop computer on May 2. The 22-year-old victim told cops that he had parked the car on 14th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at around 2:45 pm and went “to get something to eat.” He got the bad news when he returned to the car at 5 pm after a leisurely repast.

• Another thief got even more help later that day when a man turned on the ignition and then walked away from his Dodge Durango as it warmed up at around 3:45 pm. When the driver returned a minute later, the car was gone from its spot on Fifth Avenue near the corner of Sterling Place.

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