94th Precinct
Greenpoint–Northside
False pretenses
A clever thief called a woman while she was walking her dog through McCarren Park on Aug. 4, and got her to buy him phone cards and almost convinced her to send him naked pictures of herself.
The 24-year-old victim told police she was walking her dog through the park at noon when she got a call from a man with an accent. The man said he was holding the victim’s mother hostage, and if she didn’t do what he said, he would kill her mother. The man demanded that the buy him prepaid phone cards and tell him the pin numbers of the cards.
While he was still on the phone, the victim went to a Duane Reed and purchased the cards and told him the numbers. He then told her to go home take naked pictures of herself and send them to him via text message. At that point, the woman hung up the phone and called her mother, who said she had not been kidnapped. In all, the woman was on the phone call for 37 minutes. Please have the phone number of the caller but have not yet arrested him.
Truman Capote lookalike
A creepy thief in black sunglasses, who was carrying a newspaper and had a white towel around his neck, stole a woman’s property on the L train on Aug. 8.
The victim told police that she got onto a crowded L train at First Avenue at 7:30 pm and that the strange-looking man got on the same stop. As the train raced through the tunnel, she felt the man’s newspaper touching her left arm, but didn’t think anything of it. The victim got off the train at Lorimer Street and a witness stopped her.
“That man took your wallet,” he said.
The woman searched her pocketbook, and sure enough, her wallet, driver’s license, credit card, MetroCard, and cash were all missing. Police canvassed numerous stops along the line but found nothing.
Fast track robbery
A robber snatched a necklace off of a woman’s neck on the L train at the Lormier Street stop on July 28.
The victim told police that she was on the last train of a Canarsie-bound train at 4:30 am. When the train stopped at Lorimer, the crook stepped into the car, reached through the bars of the seat, and snatched the yellow necklace from around her neck.
He then ran off, possibly to the other side of the platform.
Sleep no more
Someone stole a guy’s bag from his feet as he slept on a Brooklyn-bound L train in the early morning of Aug. 5.
The victim told police that he got on the train at Manhattan’s Union Square station and fell asleep at the First Avenue station. When he woke up at Bedford Avenue at 2:30 am, he looked down and saw that his bag — which included cash, his cellphone, wallet, MetroCard, and debit card — was missing.
He didn’t see who took the bag. He told the cops that he was drunk and wanted to go home.
Bike-by
A kid on a bicycle on Engert Avenue stole an iPhone out of a guy’s hand on July 23.
The victim told police that he was walking home and was between Eckford and Leonard streets at 7:30 pm when the kid rode up, grabed the phone out of the man’s hand, and rode off. The kid had two other guys riding alongside of him.
— Danielle Furfaro
