88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Bathroom blunder
A bathroom bandit snuck into the ladies’ room of a Lafayette Avenue store and stole a woman’s wallet out of her bag on Jan. 15.
The woman told police she entered the empty bathroom of the store near Rockwell Place at 5:50 pm and left her belongings outside of the stall while she did her business.
But she wasn’t the only one for long — she heard someone with pink pants enter and leave. When she went to go wash up, she discovered her wallet was missing from her bag, said reports.
Bejeweled
A thief looted a Myrtle Avenue jewelry store sometime overnight on Jan. 11.
The sleepy-eyed shop owner told police she closed her shop near Clermont Avenue at 10 pm on Jan. 11, and went home.
She was awoken from her sleep by a call from her alarm company at 4:30 am the next day alerting her to a break-in.
The nogoodnik had entered the store through either the unlocked front or back doors and stole three gold bracelets, rings, and necklaces, police said.
Elevator assault
Some goon roughed up a woman in the elevator of an apartment complex on Navy Walk on Jan. 11 and made off with her purse and phone.
The victim told police she was in the elevator of the building near Tillary Street at 7:25 pm when a man got on at the second floor and did not let her get off the lift when she attempted to exit.
The villain tripped the victim and she hit her head, according to reports. The brute then punched the woman in the face while she was on the floor and got off on the fourth floor, fleeing down the stairs with her purse containing her phone, $200 in cash, and keys, said police.
The victim, who was taken to the hospital for stitches and two loose teeth, said she had never seen the guy before.
Shoved
A pair of punks pushed a guy to the ground as he was walking to school on Waverly Avenue on Jan. 14.
The young scholar was on the way to class near DeKalb Avenue at 8:10 am when two scoundrels shoved him to the pavement, said police. The duo snatched a Samsung mobile phone from his pocket and fled down Waverly Avenue toward Fulton Street, according to reports.
Petrol plunder
A dirtbag lifted a woman’s belongings from her car as she was filling it up at a gas station on Myrtle Avenue on Jan. 7.
The driver said she was pumping gas at the station near Classon Avenue at 10:30 am when she noticed that her passenger-side door and trunk had been opened.
She got back in her vehicle, and once she arrived at Adams Street, she discovered that her bag — which contained her driver’s license, debit card, headphones, and charger — was missing, said reports.
— Lauren Gill
