78th Precinct
Park Slope
Held up
A gun-wielding perp mugged a man for his iPhone on Carlton Avenue on Sept. 14.
The victim told cops that he was walking near Saint Marks Avenue at 7:20 pm when the miscreant approached.
“Are you that rapper?” the perp asked the 27-year-old victim.
Police reported that after the victim responded, the criminal whipped out a brown gun from his pants pocket and said, “I got a gun let me get your iPhone.”
The perp, who had a tattoo of a cross under his eye, then fled with the cellular device, according to a police report.
Wheel-less
A criminal jacked the tires and rims off of a man’s car that he left parked on Berkeley Place sometime between Sept. 8 and Sept. 9.
The 50-year-old victim told cops that he parked his black Honda on the street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at 3:30 pm on Sept. 8. When he returned the next day at 7:45 am, all four wheels and 18-inch rims were missing from the car.
MyPhone
A quick-handed bandit snatched a woman’s iPhone right out of her hand while she was walking her dog in front of her Eighth Avenue home on Sept. 11.
The 47-year-old victim told cops that she was walking her pooch while holding the cellular device on the block between Garfield Place and Carroll Street at 11:30 pm when the criminal came up to her from behind, grabbed the cellphone, and ran off.
Special delivery
A crook swiped a bunch of items from a delivery truck parked on Fifth Avenue on Sept. 10.
The truck driver told police that he parked the commercial vehicle on the street between First and Second streets at 10 am to make a delivery. When he returned 30 minutes later, he noticed that his navigation system, gas station credit card, radio, bag, and car key were all missing.
The driver told cops that he locked the truck before leaving and that there were no signs of forced entry, according to a police report.
No heart guard
A robber took a woman’s bag containing her $1,800 heart monitor that she left inside the dressing room of an Atlantic Avenue department store on Sept. 14.
The 38-year-old victim told police that she left her bag in the dressing of the store near Flatbush Avenue at 4:30 pm and when she came back for it just minutes later, the bag holding her heart machine, her iPod, keys, medication, doctor’s report, and phonebook, was missing.
Ride heist
A perp broke into a man’s car left inside an Atlantic Avenue parking lot and made off with more than $6,000 worth of goods on Sept. 15.
The 47-year-old victim told cops that he parked his gray Subaru in the lot of a shopping mall near Flatbush Avenue at 6:30 pm and when he returned about an hour later, he noticed that his side trunk window was smashed in.
The criminal got away with a digital camera, three camera lenses, a camera flash, an iPad, textbooks, dress shoes, $300, sunglasses, earrings, and a necklace.
Gone in a flash
A thief stole two wallets and an iPhone from a bag left in the gated area outside of a Carroll Street residence on Sept. 8.
The victim told police that she left the bag in a fenced in area by the stoop of the home between Sixth and Seventh avenues at 10:30 am when she and her friend went to get their bikes out of the basement.
When the two returned minutes later, the items were gone.
Pick pocketed
A bandit slipped a woman’s wallet out of her bag while she was shopping in a Flatbush Avenue chain lingerie store on Sept. 13.
The 31-year-old victim told cops that when she approached the register to pay for items at the store near Atlantic Avenue at 3:15 pm she discovered that her bag was open and her wallet, containing $350 and a bunch of credit cards, was missing.
The woman felt someone push up against her while she was shopping, according to a police report.
Car gone
A crook stole a man’s 1995 Ford van that he left parked on Third Avenue sometime between Sept. 12 and Sept. 13.
The 44-year-old man told police that he parked his ride on the street between 11th and 12th streets at 9 pm on Sept. 12 and when he returned the next day at 8 am, the white vehicle was nowhere to be found.
— Natalie Musumeci
