60th Precinct
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate
Conned Edison
Police arrested a callous woman who they say robbed an elderly lady at knifepoint in her W. 24th Street home on Feb. 28 after posing as a Con Edison employee, a police report said.
The woman answered a knock at her door around 3 pm from the phony electrical worker, but as soon as she unlocked her door, the brute forced the door open, put two knives to her throat, and said “Cry and I’ll kill you,” according to police. Then she taped the victim’s mouth shut and took a gold watch off her wrist, according to the report.
Then — apparently in no rush — she started eating some of the woman’s food, but in the meantime her victim managed to get out of the apartment and run down to the security desk in her building’s lobby, where she called police.
The robber fled and took $18, some electronics, and some jewelry with her. Police later found one of the knives and a piece of partially bitten chocolate she left behind.
Everything but the kitchen sink
A freebooter broke into a Neptune Avenue home on Feb. 12 and managed to steal a refrigerator and a stove from the basement.
The thief broke in through a rear basement window at the home between W. 35th and W. 36th streets around midnight, but broke open a cellar door to get his heavy haul out, police said.
Over and in
Someone broken into an office at a public housing bulding on W. 23rd Street on Feb. 23, according to police.
An employee locked up the office between Mermaid and Neptune avenues around 4 pm and came back the next morning to find someone had broken open the ceiling tiles outside his office and used a ladder to get up and then into his office.
The cat burglar broke open a desk and stole a Samsung tablet and a clock, according to police.
Van-ished
A carjacker stole a man’s van from a parking lot on Murdock Court on Feb. 24, police said.
The man parked his van in the parking lot between Avenue Z and Ocean Parkway around 7 pm, but when he returned it was gone without a trace. The man kept two sets of keys in the van and there was no broken glass or other signs of forced entry, according to a police report.
— Dennis Lynch
