63rd Precinct
Marine Park—Mill Basin—Flatlands—Bergen Beach
Coward circle
A brazen group of guys stole a 14-year-old girl’s phone on Avenue H on Nov. 10.
The teen’s mother told officers that her daughter was standing at a bus stop near Utica Avenue with friends at around 4:40 pm when a group of punks circled her. One of the brigands then snatched the frightened teen’s phone out of her left pocket and walked off, according to police.
According to police, the phone was traced to Pacific Street and Nostrand Avenue but was not recovered.
Shop and drop
Someone snatched a woman’s purse at an Avenue U department store on Nov. 13.
The woman told police she was shopping in the store near Flatbush Avenue at around 3:15 pm when she temporarily put her handbag down. Cops said that about 15 minutes later, when went to look for her bag, it was gone.
The bag contained a pair of pricey sunglasses and several debit cards, according to the police report.
Theft by brick
A pilferer bashed a woman’s car with bricks on Avenue S on Nov. 11.
The jerk threw several bricks at the woman’s car while it was parked between E. 51st and E. 52nd streets between 8 and 9 pm and stole her pocketbook containing gift cards worth up to $1,000, according to police.
Fraudulent duo
Cops arrested a man and a woman for credit card fraud at a department store on Avenue U on Nov. 11.
The duo made purchases of about $1,000 at the store near Flatbush Avenue around 5:30 pm using someone else’s credit card, according to police. Officers caught up with the man later that evening, and arrested the woman the next day.
Big spender
A crook intercepted a woman’s new credit card meant to be mailed to her Bergen Avenue home and used it to rack up $5,000 worth of purchases between Oct. 12 and Nov. 9.
The woman told police that she her new card never arrived at her home between Avenues U and V, and a month later, discovered purchases on her bill at a nearby Avenue U department store that she did not make, according to a police report.
— Alexandra Simon
