78th Precinct
Park Slope
Valentine’s Day horror
An obsessive boyfriend pulled a knife on his girlfriend on Feb. 14 and told her that he would kill her if she broke up with him, police reported.
The 52-year-old woman told cops that she got into an argument with her partner and tried to break up with him inside her Dean Street apartment between Sixth and Carlton avenues at 5 am.
That’s when the perp threatened her life, whipped out a knife, and pressed it against her neck, causing a scratch to her neck and throat, police said.
The skullcap-wearing attacker fled the scene on foot, police said.
All-star crook
A red-clad thief stole more than $1,000 worth track jackets from a Fifth Avenue chain sneaker store sometime overnight on Feb. 14.
An employee at the store between 13th and 14th streets told cops that surveillance footage showed the goateed perp swipe 11 of the lightweight jackets from the rack sometime between 6 pm on Feb. 14 and 2 pm the next day.
The crook fled on foot, according to cops.
Dine out
Police cuffed a suspect who allegedly struck a man on the head when he was eating in a Fifth Avenue diner on Feb. 14.
The 25-year-old victim told cops that the miscreant bashed him on the head inside the food establishment between Ninth and 10th streets with an unknown object from the dining table at 6:30 pm, causing a laceration to the middle of his forehead and the left side of his neck.
The suspected basher — who faces a top charge of a felony — was in possession of marijuana and a controlled substance, police said.
Not looking
A bandit snagged more than $800 worth of goods out of a woman’s purse while she was on the job at a Union Street arts space on Feb. 13.
The 23-year-old victim told police that she left her purse by her desk in the front of the store near Nevins Street before she went to the back room with her co-workers at 11 am.
When she came back to her desk nearly an hour later, her iPad, wallet, $60, and her credit and debit cards were gone from her bag.
Hoard of coins
A burglar broke into a Eighth Avenue apartment and stole $20 in various coins on Feb. 11.
The 51-year-old victim told cops that the bandit entered the home between Third and Fourth streets through a rear window that the victim left open sometime between 7:40 am and 9:15 pm, and made off with the change.
The crook fled through the front door, according to cops.
Big break-in
A band of quick-handed thieves broke into a Fourth Avenue apartment and stole nearly $4,000 worth of electronics on Feb. 15.
The 33-year-old victim told police that the perps pried open the front door of her apartment between Warren and Baltic streets when she wasn’t home sometime between 11:30 am and 6:30 pm.
The criminals made off with two MacBook laptops, a Pentax film camera, an iPod nano, 20 Xbox games, and Xbox controllers.
Television-less
Someone swiped a bunch of flat-screen television sets from inside a man’s Sixth Avenue house undergoing renovations sometime between Feb. 11 and Feb. 12.
A witness told police that four Samsung flat screens televisions and 10 low-wattage dimmer switches disappeared overnight.
The witness told cops that the front door was closed and locked at night and the following day at 7:40 am, but that he found footprints in the snow leading to the back door, which does not have a lock on it.
There was no forced entry at the scene, police said.
Stolen checks
An unidentified thief cashed a fraudulent check for $4,700 under another man’s name inside a Seventh Avenue bank on Jan. 19.
The 32-year-old victim told cops that the perp cashed the check inside the bank near Carroll Street sometime between 9 am and 5 pm.
The victim told police that he did not lose any checks or credit cards.
Car gone
A suspect stole a man’s car from its spot on Third Avenue sometime between Feb. 6 and Feb. 15.
The 44-year-old victim told cops that he parked and locked his red Subaru near Douglass Street on Feb. 6 at 11 am.
When he returned nine days later at 7 am his ride was gone.
The victim told police that there are no outstanding tickets on the vehicle. No broken glass was found at the scene, police say.
— Natalie Musumeci
Reach reporter Thomas Tracy at ttracy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2525.
