Talk ain’t cheap
Thieves grabbed the cellphones right out of two men’s hands last week,
In the first incident, on May 5, a San Francisco man said he was chatting on his mobile on 14th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues at around 11 pm when the thief ran up and took it. Naturally, it was an iPhone.
The next day, another victim suffered the same fate. In this case, he told cops that he was on Second Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at around 9:10 pm when the thief grabbed the phone.
Cops in the 78th Precinct reminded victims to not cancel their phone accounts so that police can track the thieves’ movements.
Clothes horse
A sly thief ripped off a Fifth Avenue clothing store for more than $1,000 in silky garments on May 9.
Cops say that the lady shoplifter entered Asha Veza boutique, which is between St. Marks Place and Warren Street, at around 7 pm, grabbed two blouses and two dresses, and ran out.
Ride from hell
Two passengers in a dollar van got into a fight during a May 7 ride down Flatbush Avenue that ended with one man bleeding and another man fleeing.
The victim told cops that he was in the van at around 10:20 pm. When the vehicle stopped to let him off near Grand Army Plaza, the other passenger complained about something.
Quickly, the fight escalated until the passenger pulled out a razor and slashed the victim in the face and cheek. The passenger fled, and the van continued on its way.
Lots of burgs
It wouldn’t be Park Slope without lots of break-ins. Here’s a roundup:
• On May 7, a thief entered an Eighth Avenue apartment during the day and stole two laptops and $2,000 in jewelry. The resident told cops that she was not in the apartment, which is Fifth and Sixth streets, from 8:30 am to 8:20 pm.
• On the same day, a different thief entered a Sixth Avenue apartment, at First Street, through an open window and took a purse, a laptop and a camera. The tenant told cops that she was not there between 6:15 am and 5:50 pm.
• On May 8, a thief broke in through the ceiling of an apartment on 13th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues to steal $6,350 in computing and electronic gaming equipment. The resident told cops that he was not there between 9 am and 10 pm.
Car-ied away
It also wouldn’t be Park Slope without some car break-ins, also. Here’s the wheely bad news:
• A Verizon van that had been parked on Fourth Avenue between Degraw and Douglass streets at around 11 am on May 5 was broken into and a mobile phone and laptop were taken. A few minutes later, another truck, this time belonging to an unidentified firm, was broken into on the same block. The driver told cops that his cellphone was swiped.
• A thief grabbed the laptop out of a car that had been parked on Prospect Park West between President and Union streets on May 7. The driver told cops that he had parked the car at around 5:15 pm and was gone from it for only a few minutes.
• A Staten Island man told cops that someone busted the rear window of his car, which he had parked on Ninth Street, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, on May 5 at 6 pm. The thief got away with a laptop that had been hidden beneath a passenger seat.
• A thief grabbed four cases of cigars out of a car that had been briefly parked on Union Street between Nevins Street and Third Avenue at around 1 pm on May 5. The victim told cops that the Dutch Masters smokes were worth more than $2,800.
• A man’s 10-year-old Honda Civic was briefly swiped from in front of his Sterling Place building sometime between May 5 and May 8, when cops noticed the vehicle with its engine running, no one inside, and no keys in the ignition.
The perp had popped the starter and driven off, but didn’t get far — in fact, he abandoned the car on the same block between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
