78th Precinct
Park Slope
Disloyal worker
Police arrested a 31-year-old ex-employee of a Bergen Street vegan restaurant who they say stole $1,046 from the establishment on July 15.
The business owner — who was not at the eatery between Fifth and Flatbush avenues at the time of the crime — told cops that she obtained a cellphone recording of the perp taking the money from the cash drawer at 2 pm. The owner also has an e-mail from the crook admitting to swiping the cash.
Bike swipe
A crook broke into a Degraw Street apartment building and swiped a woman’s bicycle sometime overnight between July 20 and July 21.
The 33-year-old woman told cops that her husband found damage to the front door of the building near Fifth Avenue at 7:30 am on July 21, and then discovered that her black two-wheeler was missing from the hallway.
Grab bag
A quick-handed criminal swiped a woman’s purse from her car while she was getting gas at a Fourth Avenue station on July 17.
The 39-year-old victim told cops that after she filled her Toyota up with gas at the station between Sackett and Union streets at 9:20 pm, she went to go pay, leaving her purse in the car near the center console with the windows opened.
When she returned about 10 minutes later, her purse — containing her debit and credit cards, driver’s license, and $150 — was missing.
Pricey heist
A thief ransacked a man’s Dean Street apartment and made off a $5,000 antique gold bracelet on July 19.
The 54-year-old victim told police that he left his abode between Flatbush and Fifth avenues at 6:10 pm, and when he returned more than four hours later he noticed that all of his stuff was out of place and his doors and windows were open.
The perp — who cops say may have entered through a neighbor’s backyard, jumped the fence, and entered the victim’s home through the second-floor window — made off with the 18-karat gold, double-band bracelet adorned with 10 diamonds and seven pearls.
Two-wheeler for free
A brazen bandit waltzed into a Vanderbilt Avenue bicycle shop and looted a two-wheeler on July 15.
A 26-year-old employee at the store near Dean Street told cops that while he was attending to another customer in the shop at 10:15 am, the perp walked in, grabbed the $1,850 All-City red road bike, and fled the scene.
Vroom vroom!
A crook stole a man’s motorbike that was parked on Park Place on July 15.
The 35-year-old victim told police that he left his red Kymco moped on the street between Vanderbilt and Flatbush avenues at 7 pm. When he returned two-and-a-half hours later, his ride was gone.
MyPhone
A perp snatched a woman’s iPhone right out of her hand while she was on a Manhattan-bound R train at the Fourth Avenue stop on July 17.
The 23-year-old victim told cops that she boarded the subway at 86th Street in Bay Ridge, and that the crook got on at the 36th Street stop and sat behind the woman.
As the train entered the station near Union Street at 9:30 am, the thief grabbed the cellular device and fled the train.
In the blink of an eye
A bandit snagged a woman’s purse that she left inside a public restroom at a Flatbush Avenue department store on July 15.
The 24-year-old victim told police that she entered the bathroom of the store near Atlantic Avenue with her Coach handbag at 1:30 pm. When she exited the bathroom minutes later she realized that she did not have her purse.
When the woman went back in the bathroom to retrieve her bag containing a Coach wristlet, house keys, credit cards, car keys, cellphone, and checkbook, it was gone.
— Natalie Musumeci
Reach reporter Thomas Tracy at ttracy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2525.
