84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Lotto loser
A couple of con men tricked a man out of $15,000 with a lottery ticket scam at the corner of Cadman Plaza West and Johnson Street on Feb. 12, cops said.
The victim said he was on his way to lunch at 1:20 pm when the two tricksters came over and asked him for directions to a law office. They said they needed a lawyer to help approve a $500,000 winning lottery ticket, according to a police report. One of the crooks offered the other $30,000 in exchange for the ticket, and asked the victim if he would put in half to buy it, the report says.
The mark agreed, and the trio went to the victim’s bank, where he withdrew the cash and handed it over, cops said. The cons then took off, police reported.
Helping himself
A jilted employee used a Prince Street company’s debit card late last year to charge $9,320.49 worth of stuff, police reported.
The owner said on Feb. 10 that a former employee of the business between Concrd and Tillary streets used the company card for personal use without permission on Nov. 28. When he confronted the worker about the charges, the fellow retorted that he deserved it, cops said.
Subway stabbing
Police arrested a man who they say stabbed a subway passenger in the neck for looking at him funny in the Jay Street–MetroTech station on Feb. 10.
The victim said he was waiting on the platform for an R train at 5:56 pm when the suspect attacked him.
“What are you looking at?” the man said, then whipped out a blade and stabbed the unlucky sap in the neck, according to a police report.
The victim and some other bystanders subdued the suspect until police arrived and cuffed him, cops said.
A bad fit
A quick-moving miscreant snatched a woman’s wallet inside a Fulton Street department store on Feb. 13, police said.
The victim said she was trying on a pair of shoes in the store between Duffield Street and Albee Square West at 3:20 pm, and left her wallet on the bench next to her. She got up to ask an employee a question, and when she returned the wallet was gone, police said.
Road rage
A malevolent motorist hit a man with his car as he attempted to exchange information with him after a Feb. 13 crash on Cranberry Street, the authorities said.
The victim said he got into a fender-bender between Hicks and Henry streets at 10 pm, and approached the other car to exchange insurance information with the driver.
But the maniac drove his car into the victim, hitting him in the hip, cops said. The guy then backed up on to Hicks Street and peeled off, according to officers.
Far-sighted
A cretin stole a pair of binoculars and other items from a parked car on Wyckoff Street sometime between Feb. 13 and Feb. 15, cops said.
The victim said she parked her Dodge Caravan between Hoyt and Smith streets at 6 am on Feb. 13. She returned at 12:30 pm on Feb. 15 to find her things missing, according to a police report.
The crook took the Steiner binoculars, a credit card, a satellite navigation device, and the minivan’s manual and registration, the report says.
Fifty shades of stolen lipstick
A thief grabbed a worker’s unattended purse containing a pair of erotic novels and a bunch of makeup in the stairwell of a Duffield Street gym on Feb. 11, law enforcement officials said.
The victim said she was behind the counter of the gym between Willoughby and Fulton streets from 6:30 am until 1 pm, and that her bag was on a staircase used by other employees. When she went to check on the purse, it was gone, cops said.
It contained a debit card, 15 MAC lipsticks, some Flowerbomb perfume, and four books, including a copy of “Fifty Shades of Grey,” police said.
— Matthew Perlman
