84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Hot pursuit
A crook got a run for his money when he stole a woman’s phone on Gold Street on May 6 and she chased him into a building and up to the roof, according to cops.
The 26-year-old victim reported she was text-messaging while walking between Johnson and Tillary streets at 1:15 pm when a punk snatched the phone right out of her hand and took off running.
The woman chased him into the Ingersoll Houses on Prince Street and into a building on Fleet Walk, a report says. She pursued the lowlife up to the fifth floor and grabbed him by his hooded sweatshirt and started screaming for help, cops said. But the slippery fellow shook her off, ran up the roof, and got away, police said.
Roaming
A goon threatened a man for his phone on Schermerhorn Street on May 5, cops said.
The victim told police he was walking between Smith and Hoyt streets at 2:40 pm when the brute approached.
“Give me your phone, or I’m going to beat you up,” the scoundrel supposedly said.
The victim forked over the device and the thief took off, cops said.
Cat claw
A cat burglar climbed into an apartment on Hicks Street in the middle of the day on May 6 and absconded with a laptop, police stated.
The nimble intruder made it onto the roof of a building between Orange and Pineapple streets at 1:10 pm and tried to open the door of an adjoining roof, police said.
When he was unable to pry it free, he climbed down the fire escape and entered the apartment of a 31-year-old woman through the kitchen window, where he grabbed a laptop, then scrammed, according to a police report.
Expensive mistake
A scurrilous character swiped more than $3,000 out of a woman’s purse when she accidentally left it in the bathroom of a Henry Street daycare center on May 6, officers said.
The victim said she used the restroom in the kid corral between Montague and Pierrepont streets at 11:20 am and forgot her pink purse. She went back for it at 12:10 pm, and found it stuffed in the garbage can, cops said.
The scalawag had removed the $3,420 in cash from her wallet and some envelopes that were in the bag, police reported.
Cool-headed caseworker
An overbearing fellow tried to force his mother into forking over her bank card inside her Warren Street apartment on May 6, but the caseworker visiting her put a stop to it, cops reported.
The caseworker was meeting with the 56-year-old woman at her home between Third and Fourth avenues at 3:55 pm when the sour son barged in and demanded her debit card, according to a police report. The woman refused and the 32-year-old man-child grew irate, ripping open her dress and snatching her wallet from her bra, the report says.
The card was not inside, which only further steamed the lowlife’s beans, but the caseworker was able to convince him to return the billfold and drop the demand, cops said. The son was not arrested.
Cash machine caper
A burglar smashed open an Atlantic Avenue cash machine on May 7 and scored $12,400, law enforcement officials stated.
The crook cracked open the money dispenser between Smith and Hoyt streets at 11:55 pm, police said.
Unsafe storage
A bandit stole the safe containing $8,500 from a Schermerhorn Street restaurant on May 9, according to the authorities.
A 50-year-old employee said someone locked up the store between Smith and Hoyt streets at 10:30 pm on May 8 and that when he came in at 7 am the next day the money receptacle was gone.
Fooling the old
A schemer stole $50,000 from a 78-year-old Brooklyn Heights resident with fraudulent bank transactions on May 11, cops said.
The senior, who lives on Montague between Hicks and Henry Streets, said the transactions were made between 9 am and 4 pm, according to police.
Hot wheels
A covetous punk stole a motorcycle parked on Bridge Street sometime between May 8 and 11, cop said.
The Yamaha’s 29-year-old owner said he parked his ride near the corner of Frost Street at 5 pm on May 8 and, when he returned at the same time three days later, the hog was gone.
— Matthew Perlman
