February 18, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Park Slope

These mirrors have one face — bad

By Gersh Kuntzman

for The Brooklyn Paper

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Mirror bawl

What’s with those Mercedes Benz side mirrors? Thieves swiped the essential driver’s aid off the doors of three of the luxury German sedans last week.

In the first case, a man told cops that he had parked his 2001 E320 on First Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues on Feb. 5. When he returned two days later, the mirrors were gone.

Then, two mirrors were swiped off of another E320, this one a 2000 model, that had been parked on Prospect Park West, between First and Second streets, on Feb. 8 at around 8:30 pm. The owner discovered the crime 10 hours later.

In the final swipe, a thief hit a Mercedes that had been parked on Fourth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Feb. 12 at around 11 pm. By the next afternoon, the mirrors were gone.

In all three cases, the lenses were valued at more than $2,000. That’s some ritzy glass.

Hammer time

An argument in a 12th Street supermarket spilled out into the parking lot, where a man beat his victim — and threatened to pummel him with a hammer — on Feb. 9, cops said.

Police don’t know what sparked the argument at around 1:40 pm inside the store, which is at Second Avenue. But what is clear is that the two men left the store and continued fighting. After the perp kicked his 23-year-old victim in the leg, the man threatened to call police.

That’s when the thug grabbed the hammer out of his car. But by then, the victim was dialing 911, so the man sped off in a car with the New York plate, DAX-8360.

Gym rat

A thief broke into a man’s locker at a popular Ninth Street gym, stealing a credit card and $100 out of his wallet while the poor man sweated through his routine on Feb. 8.

The man told cops that he returned to his locker in the gym, which is between Fifth and Sixth avenues, at around 2:20 pm to find the items missing.

By the time he cancelled the credit card, the thief had rung up $2,000 in charges.

Butler did it

A thug bashed a woman on Butler Street on Feb. 10, knocking her to the ground and stealing her gym bag — but he didn’t get far before cops nabbed him.

In the horrific, 9 pm attack, the 42-year-old perp sneaked up on his 26-year-old victim from behind as she was just about to her front door just east of Fourth Avenue.

Squeezing her tightly in his repulsive arms, he said, “Give me all your stuff.”

He didn’t wait for a clear answer before he pushed her to the ground and took two bags from her — one containing various gym garb, the other containing a pair of Rollerblades.

Police later picked up their suspect in a canvas of the area. How did they surmise that they had the right man? He had all the victim’s stuff still on him.

They later determined that he had four outstanding warrants on unrelated crimes.

Mirror bawl

What’s with those Mercedes Benz side mirrors? Thieves swiped the essential driver’s aide off the doors of three of the luxury German sedans last week.

In the first case, a man told cops that he had parked his 2001 E320 on First Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues on Feb. 5. When he returned two days later, the mirrors were gone.

Then, two mirrors were swiped off of another E320, this one a 2000 model, that had been parked on Prospect Park West, between First and Second streets, on Feb. 8 at around 8:30 pm. The owner discovered the crime 10 hours later.

In the final swipe, a thief hit a Mercedes that had been parked on Fourth Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Feb. 12 at around 11 pm. By the next afternoon, the mirrors were gone.

In all three cases, the mirrors were valued at more than $2,000. That’s some ritzy glass.

Wheely bad

A thief with a keen eye towards the environment swiped a Toyota Prius from 15th Street on Feb. 14.

The owner told cops that she had parked the fuel-sipping model in front of her house between Sixth and Seventh avenues at around 2 pm, but it was gone when she returned to it 13 hours later.

The Toyota hybrid has been popular with Slope buyers, but not a big draw for thieves, who have long shown their preference for 10- to 20-year-old Honda Civics.

— Gersh Kuntzman

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