78th Precinct
Park Slope
Out and about
A crook got into a woman’s Lincoln Place apartment and swiped a bunch of goods — including a bottle of whiskey — sometime between July 28 and July 29.
The victim told police that she left her residence between Fifth and Sixth avenues at 9:30 pm on July 28 to go to a nearby bar and returned at about 1 am and went straight to bed.
When the woman awoke that morning she noticed that her MacBook computer, her mandolin case, $5 in quarters, sunglasses, a flower plant, and the bottle of booze, were missing.
The woman told cops that she left her bedroom window open when she left her apartment, and noticed a hand smudge on the window possibly left by the perp, according to a police report.
Big heist
A perp looted more than $15,000 worth of equipment from a Degraw Street storage contractor company sometime between July 28 and July 29.
The owner of the business told police that the criminal broke into his office by forcing open the front door of the commercial establishment near Third Avenue sometime between 3 pm on July 28 and 5 am the next day.
The crook got away with four Nikon digital cameras, two camera lenses, a laptop, camera batteries, memory cards, a computer hard drive, and other gear.
Cracked out
Police cuffed a 44-year-old woman who allegedly tried to take property from a President Street apartment on Aug. 2.
The 36-year-old victim told cops that the suspect was in the basement of his residence between Fourth and Fifth avenues attempting to steal some wares.
Cops say they found the suspect in possession of tools and a glass pipe with alleged crack residue.
Unleaded
Cops arrested a 24-year-old man who they say swiped a woman’s purse from out of her car while she was getting gas at a Fourth Avenue station on Aug. 3.
The 30-year-old woman told police that she went to go pay for gas at the station near Douglass Street at 2 pm, leaving her Louis Vuitton handbag on the front seat of her Mercedes-Benz. When she shortly returned she noticed that the purse, containing $200, was missing.
Police nabbed the tank-top wearing criminal the next day.
Steal and shop
A bandit stole a woman’s purse out of her baby’s carriage while she was inside an Atlantic Avenue department store on Aug. 2.
The 28-year-old victim told police that she had her handbag tucked in her child’s stroller while she was waiting on line in the chain store near Flatbush Avenue. When she went to get her wallet to pay, she realized that the handbag — holding $150, credit and debit cards, a coin purse, and MetroCard — was gone.
Sly swipe
A quick-handed criminal snagged a woman’s wallet from out of her pants pocket when she was standing outside of a Fifth Avenue restaurant on Aug. 2.
The 36-year-old woman told cops that she was leaving the eatery near Saint Marks Place at 6:30 pm when the suspect bumped into her on the sidewalk. She later realized that the perp slipped her wallet, containing credit cards and $60, out of her pocket when he got close.
Bump and snatch
A perp made off with a teenager’s wallet after bumping into him on Saint Marks Place on Aug. 3.
The 19-year-old victim told cops that he was walking with his girlfriend near Fourth Avenue at 9:30 pm when the criminal bumped into him and kept walking.
About 30 minutes later the victim noticed that his wallet — containing his debit card, college identification, and health insurance card — was missing.
The criminal tried to make purchases with his bankcard, according to a police report.
Dishonest workers
Someone looted a man’s Olympus camera and lens from inside his Prospect Place apartment on July 9.
The 46-year-old victim told cops that he let workers inside his residence near Flatbush Avenue when he was at work from 9 am to 5 pm.
The victim suspects that one of workers removed the property that was sitting on top of his desk in plain site.
Break in
A bandit burglarized a man’s Fifth Avenue apartment and made off with more than $5,400 worth of electronics on July 29.
The 27-year-old victim told police that he left his abode between Lincoln Place and St. Johns Place to go to work at 9 am and when he retuned at 2 pm his iPad, $10, MacBook Pro laptop, and three camera lenses, were missing.
— Natalie Musumeci
Reach reporter Thomas Tracy at ttracy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2525.
