84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Scroll ‘n’ snatch
A delinquent snatched a phone straight out of a woman’s hand as she was using it on Fourth Avenue on Nov. 30.
The woman told police she was scrolling through her phone near St. Marks Place at 9:20 pm when a sticky-fingered teenager approached her from behind, grabbed her phone, and fled.
Moonlight haul
A heister broke into a Hoyt Street bar and lifted a hefty sum of cash on Dec. 1.
A man said he left for work at 7 am when he noticed the side door to the bar near Bergen Street had been broken into. He called 911 and when the police showed up they found someone had stolen a safe containing $5,000, two cash drawers with $600, and a cash box holding $800, according to a report.
Pocketbook plunder
A lout lifted a woman’s pocketbook as she took a snooze on a Flatbush-bound 2 train by Clark Street on Dec. 2.
The victim told police she was on the locomotive near Henry Street at 8 am. She fell asleep for a few minutes and when she awoke she found her pocketbook had been seized from her lap.
Tool’d up
A goon broke into a Prince Street construction site and made off with a treasure chest of tools sometime between Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.
The jerk entered the Concord Street work-site between 5 pm on Dec. 1 and 5:50 am on Dec 3, cut the lock on a storage container, and removed a jack hammer, demolition saw, and two drills, according to police.
— Lauren Gill
