84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Office thief snatches laptops
Someone snuck into a Dumbo office and stole a pair of expensive laptops on April 24.
The victim told police that he left a pair of MacBook Pro computers on a table inside his Bridge Street office that afternoon, locked up, and went home. When he returned the next morning, the door was still locked — but when he got inside, the laptops, worth a combined $4,472, were gone. There was no sign of a break-in, but he said the only people who had keys to the office were employees — none of whom had the computers.
Cops searched the area to no avail, and were not able to find security camera footage from the incident.
MTA workers tussle
An MTA employee attacked his coworker on April 21.
According to police, the 30-year-old attacker struck his female coworker with a flashlight multiple times while they were both working at the Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Station just before 3 a.m. The attack left the victim with a laceration on the head, and officers arrived on the scene and arrested the perp shortly after the incident occurred.
Faux brother robs school
A man posing as a loving family member robbed a Brooklyn Heights elementary school on April 24.
Victims told police the man, whose identity is not known, walked into the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School just after 5 p.m. and told staff he was waiting for his sister. While he waited, he asked to use the bathroom, cops said, but instead snuck into a school office, grabbed an expensive Canon camera and two lenses, and disappeared.
Police were checking security cameras for footage of the incident, but have yet to find the thief. The stolen equipment was worth more than $1,300.
Wallet walks off
A man’s search for his lost wallet took a weird turn on April 23.
Police said the victim dropped his wallet at a gas station on 3rd Avenue around 1:30 p.m. but didn’t immediately realize it was gone. When he noticed the missing wallet, he checked his bank accounts and discovered that someone had found it and made use of his credit cards at a deli nearby.
The man walked to the deli to search for the wallet, and met someone who claimed they knew where it was. The person led him to a dumpster a few blocks away, where the he found his wallet in the trash with the cards missing.
In total, the thief made three purchases totaling more than $100 on the stolen cards, according to cops.
Package thief
Packages stored in an apartment building mailroom were stolen on April 22.
According to police, a thief slipped into a Washington Street apartment building by following a resident through the front door that afternoon, then quickly slipped down to the basement. They broke the lock on the mailroom door, nabbed several packages waiting to be picked up, and fled back out the front door and toward Water Street. The exact number of stolen packages was not clear, nor was the value of the missing items.
