All Brooklyn news
Neighborhood Map
Bay Ridge
  • Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights
Brooklyn Heights
  • Downtown, DUMBO
Carroll Gardens
  • Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Boerum Hill
Fort Greene
  • Clinton Hill, Crown Heights
North Brooklyn
  • Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bushwick
Park Slope
  • Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights
GO Brooklyn
Dining Guide
Where to GO
Events calendar
Classifieds
The Brooklyn Wire
Not Just Nets
Police Blotter
Perspective
Parenting
Politics
Transit
Podcasts
Brooklyn Cyclones
Special sections
About The Paper
Mobile site
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds

Good news — no violent crime!

By Simon McCormack
The Brooklyn Paper

Tools

Print this story
Facebook this
Tweet this
Digg this
Del.icio.us

Car rescue

A thief thought he could take advantage of a rental car company, but wound up in cuffs after an attempt to swipe some wheels on Nov. 7.

A Budget Rent A Car employee told cops that one of the company’s 2009 Chevy Malibus had been stolen from the lot on Third Avenue between Sackett and Degraw streets at around 10 am. A witness added that he saw a man in a gray hoodie and jeans take off with the vehicle.

Cops surveyed the area and found a man fitting that description — who then confessed to the crime!

Brooklyn Conservatory

Auto gone

A car thief heisted a U-Haul van on Forth Avenue on Nov. 6.

The van’s renter told police that he had left the vehicle between Second and Third streets at 8:40 am, but it was gone two hours later.

Spicy burg

Someone broke into a popular hot wing joint on Ninth Street and stole $6,800 early on Nov. 8.

The owner of the Atomic Wings outlet between Fifth and Sixth avenues told police that he closed up after midnight, but when he returned the next day, he discovered that a crook had broken into the restaurant and grabbed the cash.

Slope burg

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

•A burglar sneaked in through an open back window of an apartment on 15th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues between Oct. 31 and Nov. 6, and took a desktop computer.

• A perp stole a pearl necklace and a laptop from an apartment on Degraw Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues on Nov. 2. The resident told cops that she had stepped outside for just 10 minutes at around 5:30 pm.

• A thief in need of new garb forced open the back window of an apartment on 12th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around 3 pm on Nov. 4. He got away with a pair of jeans, sneakers and a baseball cap.

— Simon McCormack

©2009 Community Newspaper Group

←Brooklyn Heights: It’s a drive-by shooting!
→Dining: They’re all Thai’d up in Brooklyn’s Little Bangkok

Reader Feedback

Enter your comment below

By submitting this comment, you agree to the following terms:

You agree that you, and not BrooklynPaper.com or its affiliates, are fully responsible for the content that you post. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening or sexually-oriented material or any material that may violate applicable law; doing so may lead to the removal of your post and to your being permanently banned from posting to the site. You grant to BrooklynPaper.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part world-wide and to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

First name
Last name
Your neighborhood
Email address
Daytime phone

Your letter must be signed and include all of the information requested above. (Only your name and neighborhood are published with the letter.) Letters should be as brief as possible; while they may discuss any topic of interest to our readers, priority will be given to letters that relate to stories covered by The Brooklyn Paper.

Letters will be edited at the sole discretion of the editor, may be published in whole or part in any media, and upon publication become the property of The Brooklyn Paper. The earlier in the week you send your letter, the better.

B&R Electronics
Packer Summer Day Camp

Links