68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Scam on line one
A phone scammer bilked a 46-year-old Fourth Avenue man out of $1,234 on Sept. 29, cops said.
The caller rang up his victim at his home between 84th and 85th streets in Bay Ridge at 11 am and said the man owed money to the Internal Revenue Service, police said.
The con artist told the man to buy a prepaid money card for the amount, and the man complied, calling the crook back and dictating the card’s code over the phone, a police report states.
Safe crackers crack
Two burglars tried and failed to steal a safe from an 11th Avenue business on Oct. 20, law enforcement officials said.
The pair broke into the store between 65th and 66th streets in Dyker Heights at 12:30 am and tried to take the safe, but they fled when they couldn’t remove it, police said.
Safe cracker cracks the code
A safe cracker broke into a 72nd street home, opened the safe therein, and took $870 on Oct. 2, according to the authorities.
The homeowner left his house between Ridge Boulevard and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge to go to the hospital at 8 am, and when he returned home at 3 pm, he found that someone had broken down the front door and emptied the safe, police said.
Wiped out over the weekend
A burglar took $2,465 from a Fourth Avenue home sometime between Sept. 28 and Sept. 29, officers reported.
The resident left his home between 80th and 81st streets in Bay Ridge at 3 pm that Sunday and came back at 11 am the next day to find that someone had taken cash from his kitchen cabinets, police said. There were no signs of forced entry, a police report states.
Sill seeker
A prowler stole $2,000 in jewelry from a 96th Street home after climbing in though a window on Oct. 3, police stated.
The resident left the house between Ridge Boulevard and Third Avenue to go to work at 7:50 am, NYPD officials said. When she headed out, she left a worker unattended in her basement, according to a report.
The woman came home at 3 pm and found that a fiend had entered the residence through a first-floor window and left her empty jewelry boxes strewn across her bed, law enforcement sources said.
— Max Jaeger
