76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Thief strikes gold
A greedy good-for-nothing stole an estimated $29,925 in jewelry and electronics — including a wedding ring — from a Third Street apartment on Aug. 24.
The goon busted down the front door to the building between Bond and Hoyt streets in Gowanus sometime between 10 am and 3:30 pm, police said. The cretin took three laptop computers, a camera and lenses, and $500 cash — the rest of his haul was jewelry, including a necklace, a diamond ring, and a pair of diamond sapphire earrings, officials said.
Razor clipped
Someone stole a woman’s Razor brand scooter from outside a Clinton Street library on Aug. 24.
The victim locked up the electric scooter behind the library, which sits between Union and Sackett streets in Carroll Gardens, at 3:30 pm and went inside the book depository, police said.
When she came back at 5:20 pm, the ride and her helmet were gone, law enforcement sources said.
Pushy punks
Two brutes shoved a 56-year-old man to the ground and stole his wallet on Court Street on Aug. 23.
The victim was near Baltic Street in Cobble Hill, on his way home, when the pair came up from behind, punched him in the head, and pushed him to the ground, police said. The guy’s wallet fell out of his pocket in the scuffle, and the twerps fled with $60 and a debit card, officials said.
Lousy teens
Police arrested two teen terrors who they say went on a mini crime spree on Third Street on Aug. 24.
First, the 13- and 15-year-olds tried to snatch a pocketbook from a woman on the corner of Third and Bond streets at 12:15 pm, police said. When that failed, they fled up the block, where police caught them trying to slip a phone from someone’s back pocket at the corner of Third and Smith streets, officials said.
Phone picked up
A sticky-fingered scoundrel stole a cellphone from a Ninth Street deli on Aug. 22.
The phone’s owner left it on a counter in the deli between Second Avenue and Smith Street in Gowanus at 6:35 pm, but when she came back a few minutes later, it was gone, police said.
Security camera footage caught a guy with long, dark hair nabbing the phone and fleeing, police said.
— Max Jaeger
