84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Bad company
A crook stole $40,000 in cash from a family he had been staying with for a year when he moved out of their Jay Street apartment on Nov. 10, according to police.
A 31-year-old resident of the apartment between York and Front streets said the 48-year-old suspect was a family friend and had been a longtime house-mate. The suspect had started abusing alcohol, and the victim asked him to move out, according to a report.
After he left, the woman found that $40,000 was missing from the top drawer of her dresser, the account states. The guy moved out at 3 pm on Nov. 10, and could have taken the dough anytime after 10 am on Nov. 5, the woman related.
Train pain
A tough guy stole a man’s wallet aboard a 2 train on Nov. 17, according to police.
The 64-year-old victim said he was riding the train at 5:15 pm when a fiend wearing a green jacket, gray hat, and sunglasses jammed him against the door of the train, fished around in his pocket, and removed his wallet.
The scalawag hopped off the train at Clark Street and fled, cops said. The wallet contained $50 in cash, an Italian identification card, and a debit card, police said.
Tough breakup
A bar patron hit a man in the head for trying to break up a fight between him and his girlfriend in a Smith Street watering hole. on Nov. 23, police said.
The 35-year-old victim said he saw the 33-year-old suspect fighting with his gal pal at 3:30 am inside the saloon between Wyckoff and Warren streets. He was trying to intervene when the accused hit him in the head with an unknown object, cutting him, then took off running, according to cops.
Laptop lifted
Someone stole a woman’s laptop from her Columbia Heights apartment on Nov. 20, according to the authorities.
The 43-year-old victim said she left the side door to her apartment between Orange and Cranberry streets unlocked at 3:15 am, and when she checked it at noon the door had been opened. The crook made off with a laptop, police recounted.
Un-secure
A sneak snatched a woman’s wallet as she went through security at the Municipal Building on Joralemon Street on Nov. 19, law enforcement officials stated.
The 55-year-old victim said she entered the building between Adams and Court streets at 10 am, and placed her billfold in a basket to be scanned. When she went to retrieve the wallet, it was gone, and with it, $5 in cash and credit and debit cards, cops said.
Automatic withdrawal
A bandit burgled a car parked behind MetroTech Center on Nov. 20, cops said.
The 25-year-old victim said someone informed him that two men were inside his car, which was parked on Tech Place between Lawrence and Bridge streets, at 3:30 am.
He went out to check and discovered his wallet taken, according to the NYPD. He told officers the wallet contained debit and credit cards.
Luggage lifted
A lowlife stole a bunch of clothes and jewelry from a parked car on Dean Street on Nov. 22 or 23, police said.
The 32-year-old victim said she left her luggage in her boyfriend’s car, which he left between Nevins Street and Third Avenue at 11 pm on Nov. 22.
When they returned to the car at 1 pm the next day, her stuff was gone, cops said. The suitcases contained $500 in cash, five portable hard drives, a pearl necklace, emerald earrings, and a bunch of clothes, according to a report.
Hard lesson
A crook filched a woman’s wallet in a Smith Street coffee shop on Nov. 19, officers reported.
The 32-year-old victim said she was tutoring someone in the cafe between Wykoff and Bergen streets at 4:30 pm and left her bag unattended at a table for an hour.
When she went to get it, she found the purse on the floor and the billfold vanished, cops said. The wallet contained debit and credit cards and personal checks, police related.
Cable vision
A Plymouth Street building’s former employee carted off a television out of the lobby on Nov. 16, the authorities recounted.
A 34-year-old worker at the building between Bridge and Water streets said the 48-year-old strolled in and commandeered the 32-inch set at 3 am. A security camera captured the crime, according to a police report.
— Matthew Perlman
