78th Precinct
Park Slope
iBust
Police cuffed two men who allegedly looted two iPads from a Seventh Avenue cellphone service retail store on Sept. 6.
The business owner told cops that the two 20-year-old suspects entered the store between Union and President streets at 4 pm, ran up to the electronics on display, and fled with two iPads.
Arresting officers were able to identify the suspects through a description given by the store owner. Police recovered a black iPad from inside the front pants of one of the suspects and a white mini iPad from the other.
Eat and run
A bandit swiped a woman’s purse while she was having dinner inside a Flatbush Avenue restaurant on Sept. 2.
The victim told cops that she was eating at the Mexican dining establishment between Prospect Place and Park Place at 5 pm, and hung her handbag off the back of her chair.
When the woman reached for her purse — containing her wallet, iPhone, a check for $1,200, and credit cards — 20 minutes later to pay the bill, it was gone.
In the blink of an eye
A tattooed perp snatched a woman’s wallet right out of her hand while she was exiting a Fifth Avenue supermarket on Sept. 4.
The victim told police that she was leaving the grocery store between Union and President streets with a bunch of shopping bags and her wallet in hand at 4:30 pm when the crook ran past her and grabbed her wallet.
The thief fled down Fifth Avenue with her wallet holding $70, credit and debit cards, her driver’s license, and MetroCard.
Bad romance
An angry ex-boyfriend stole a bunch of goods from his former girlfriend’s Baltic Street apartment and bashed in her television on Sept. 7, cops reported.
The 23-year-old victim told police that her ex-boyfriend came to the apartment between Third and Fourth avenues at 6:30 pm and was told to leave. The man refused to leave and when the victim left the room and came back minutes later, the television was destroyed and $200, a Playstation 3 game console, a camera, and a gold ring and chain was missing, according to police.
Looted ride
A perp broke into a woman’s car parked on Flatbush Avenue and made off with her Louis Vuitton bag that she left inside it on Sept. 7.
The woman told cops that she parked her gray Volkswagon on the street near Washington Avenue at 7:30 am. When she retuned less than eight hours later she noticed that the right back passenger’s-side window was broken and the designer bag holding $20, debit and credit cards, and her driver’s license, was missing.
Sly steal
A miscreant swiped a woman’s purse while she was shopping inside an Atlantic Avenue children’s clothes store on Sept. 1.
The 32-year-old victim told police that she took her wallet out of her pocketbook inside the store near Flatbush Avenue to get a coupon and put the wallet back into her bag at 4 pm.
When she got to the cash register to pay for some items her billfold, containing credit and debit cards and $280, was missing.
The perp tried to make a $1,500 purchase at a nearby department store with her credit card, according to a police report.
Night out gone wrong
A quick-handed crook stole a woman’s handbag while she was in a Ninth Street bar on Sept. 3.
The 29-year-old victim told cops that she was sitting and talking to her friend in the pub between Fourth and Fifth avenues at about 7:30 pm as her purse hung on a bar hook near her.
The thief made off with the leather bag holding $60, an iPhone, house keys, identification, and credit cards.
Car gone
A criminal stole a man’s silver minivan that he parked on Seventh Street sometime between Sept. 1 and Sept. 3.
The 55-year-old man told police that he left his Chrysler on the street between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West on Sept. 1 at 2 pm. When he returned two days later at 9 am the vehicle was gone.
— Natalie Musumeci
