78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Wheels of steal
A disc jockey suffered a setback when thieves made off with the equipment she had left in her parked car between 3 pm on Dec. 10 and 1:30 pm on Dec. 11 cops said.
The victim parked her 2005 Hyundai on Fourth Street between Fifth and Sixth streets and locked the door, but when she returned to her ride the next day someone had smashed her rear, driver’s-side window and stolen an Acer Aspire laptop valued at $650 and a Seagate Expansion external hard drive valued at $500, according to a report.
Not-so-smooth criminal
A wannabe Artful Dodger swiped a woman’s wallet and a chunk of cash on a crowded train on Dec. 8, police said.
The victim boarded a Barclays-Center-bound R train at the Union Street stop and noticed a stranger jostle her as she walked through the doors, according to the authorities. When she got to her destination she realized the cretin had snagged her wallet and the $450 in cash that it contained, a report says.
Rubber meets the road
Drivers beware. Two similar wheel thefts befell car owners in recent weeks, according to a report.
In the first heist, a sneak made off with tires worth $1,200 and rims worth $2,000 from a 2014 Cadillac Escalade between 6:10 pm on Dec. 6 and 11:10 am on Dec. 7 on Carroll Street between Prospect Park West and Eighth Avenue cops said.
In the second, a bandit swiped tires worth $800 and rims worth $1,200 from a 2012 Honda Acura between 11:15 am and noon on Dec 13 on Third Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, law enforcement officials said.
Hewlett Pack-ing it in
A thief looted a parked car in the parking lot of a large home improvement store on Second Avenue between 10th and 12th streets in Gowanus on Dec. 12, cops said.
The victim parked his car at 3 pm and returned at 4:30 pm to find it unlocked, although he told police he could not remember whether he had locked the vehicle before going shopping. He drove out of the parking lot, but when he arrived home he realized a $1,200 Hewlitt Packard laptop and $350 Samsung tablet had been taken, according to a police account.
Snatch-and-grab
A pair of fleet-footed thieves snatched a woman’s phone at the Ninth Street R train station on Dec. 12, the NYPD said.
The victim was at the bottom of the station’s stairs and had begun taking her phone out of her purse when the punks came up from behind, one grabbed the Blu Studio 5.5 phone, valued at $199, and they both tore up the stairs and out of site, the authorities said.
— Noah Hurowitz
