Raider Joe’s
A thief stole a woman’s wallet while she shopped in Trader Joe’s supermarket on Court Street on April 8.
The snatching occurred around 1 pm in the shop near the corner of Atlantic Avenue. The 34-year-old victim didn’t discover the sour crime until a few minutes later, when she went to pay for her items. She lost $12 in the crime.
Catch and release
Police caught a man suspected of breaking into a car parked on Tompkins Place between Kane and Degraw streets on April 2.
The victim told police that she parked her 2008 Jeep at around 9 pm — and, sure enough, hours later, cops apprehended a man hauling what appeared to be stolen booty: a laptop computer and accessories, GPS system, a cellphone charger and a sweet pair of Oakley sunglasses.
Police returned the recovered property to the 28-year-old driver.
Crime doesn’t pay
Police cuffed a high school student for stealing an empty wallet from a Cobble Hill HS classmate on Baltic Street on April 8.
Just after noon, the 17-year-old hoodlum allegedly accosted a 15-year-old student and demanded his wallet. The teens fought over it in the hallway of the school between Smith and Hoyt streets, but the elder lad was able to wrest it away.
Cops later arrested the “mugger” — still in possession of the empty billfold.
— Mike McLaughlin
