Stop and go
A purse-snatcher mugged a woman on Carlton Avenue on Feb. 22, but a civilian intervened and wrested back the stolen bag.
The crook asked the woman if she had any money at 8 pm, and when she said “yes,” he responded by pushing her to the ground at the corner of Greene Avenue and stealing her pocketbook.
Moments later, a mystery man stopped the fleeing thug, ripped the satchel from his hands and returned it to the victim.
Intrepid burglar
A crook cracked open a parked Dodge on Grand Avenue on Feb. 14 and stole a laptop, as well as some dirty laundry.
The intrepid Intrepid driver parked the car at 10 am between Gates and Putnam avenues. But when he came back just 30 minutes later, his driver’s-side window was shattered and his gadget and garb were gone.
Door damn!
A prowler broke through two doors in a Carlton Avenue building to rob a woman’s apartment on Feb. 16.
The victim, 21, said she was not home from 6 to 9:15 pm when she returned to find that the entrance to the building, between Lafayette and Greene avenues, was broken. When she got to her own apartment, she saw that her front door was also broken and her iPod was gone.
Cuffin’ crooks
Police arrested two men who had attacked and mugged another man on Lafayette Avenue on Feb. 17, but one suspect eluded capture.
The fracas began at the corner of Clermont Avenue at 7:47 pm when the troika ganged up on the victim, 27. They punched him repeatedly, knocked him to the pavement and stole his iPhone.
Officers later arrested an 18- and 19-year-old suspected of the bruising assault.
Game time
A couple’s South Oxford Street apartment was turned upside down by a plunderer on Feb. 16.
The woman, 27, told police, that neither she nor her boyfriend was in the flat, between DeKalb and Lafayette avenues, from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm.
When she arrived back at the ranch, she found the front door broken and their belongings scattered around the floor.
Further inspection revealed that a laptop and video game system were gone.
Sleeping with the enemy
A burglar raided a Clinton Avenue house while the residents were in the Land of Nod on Feb. 18.
One of the victims, a 38-year-old man, said he hit the hay at 12:05 am and awoke at 6:30 am to observe that a thief apparently entered his house between Willoughby and DeKalb avenues through a rear window and stole purses, a backpack, an iPhone, several credit cards and $110.
