Break it up
A burglar stole luxe items from a Greene Avenue apartment on Oct. 13 after breaking through the basement window.
The 47-year-old resident told police the crook snagged a new laptop, Prada bag, Nikon camera and nifty briefcase from the garden apartment between Grand and Classon avenues. He told police no one was home between 1:30 and 5:30 pm.
Money game
Police arrested a bank teller on Oct. 21 who allegedly made repeated attempts to defraud her Flushing Avenue bank.
According to the 19-year-old teller’s boss, the alleged crook had falsified several transactions going back to Aug. 8 in order to pocket some cash from the bank between Washington Avenue and Hall Street. The supervisor said the final straw came when the suspect took $3,252 from another teller’s drawer.
Short-circuited
Half of a shoplifting duo with enough video game equipment to start its own arcade was arrested at an Atlantic Avenue retailer on Oct. 22.
Store employees halted a 19-year-old caught exiting the store at 6:13 pm with seven Xbox Lives for online gaming, two top-of-the-line Xbox Live Golds and 15 controllers.
An accomplice eluded capture with unknown stolen goods from the national chain between Fort Greene Place and South Portland Avenue.
So easy
A commercial truck parked with the driver’s door unlocked and the keys beneath the front seat was stolen from a Waverly Avenue garage overnight on Oct. 22–23.
The attendant said he parked the 2003 Ford van at 6 pm and by 4:45 am the next morning, the vehicle was gone from the lot between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue.
Fists to cuffs
Police arrested a man who had allegedly beaten another man working in a Flushing Avenue business on Oct. 24.
An argument escalated into a fight at 3 pm when the 33-year-old suspect bashed the 53-year-old victim in the face several times inside the commercial office between Cumberland and North Portland streets.
The victim also told police the suspect tried to take unspecified property from him.
Top o’ the morning
Three thugs attacked a man on Vanderbilt Avenue on Oct. 24 to steal his iPhone.
The 42-year-old victim told police the trio punched him repeatedly in the face before stealing the popular cellphone at 9:05 am between Willoughby and DeKalb avenues.
— Mike McLaughlin
