78th Precinct
Park Slope
Popped lock
A perp stole more than $2,000 worth of assorted items locked inside a Third Avenue storage facility sometime overnight on July 27.
The 28-year-old victim told police that he last saw his property inside the facility between First and Third streets on at 5 pm. When he returned the next day at 5 pm the lock was broken and his stuff — which included 49 different kinds of cigars and cigarettes, bags, tobacco paper, pens, 60 tubes of toothpaste, seven packs of gum, foam cups and lids, batteries, 18 bars of soap, 18 packs of condoms, playing cards, a lighter, and medicine — was gone.
Vicious attack
Police cuffed a 51-year-old brute who they say attacked a woman inside her 14th Street apartment on July 23.
The 43-year-old victim told cops that the man hit her, kicked her, and struck her in the head with a glass after the two had an argument inside the apartment between Fourth and Fifth avenues at 8 pm.
The aggressor also choked the woman, who suffered injuries and bleeding to the head and had to be taken to a nearby hospital, according to a police report.
Unlucky mom
A crook stole a woman’s wallet that she left inside the doorway of a Prospect Place apartment on July 28.
The 32-year-old victim told police that she left her wallet, containing her debit and credit cards and $80, on her baby stroller inside the residence between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues at 2 pm. She noticed that the wallet was missing when she returned to her Nevins Street home three-and-a-half hours later.
The perp made purchases with her credit card, according to a police report.
Grab bag
A thief swiped a woman’s purse that she left in the trunk of her car while it was parked in the lot of an Atlantic Avenue supermarket on July 26.
The victim told police that she left her purse, containing her wallet, Social Security card, driver’s license, and debit and credit cards, in the trunk of the vehicle at 3:30 pm when she went to go shopping in the chain grocery store near Flatbush Avenue. When she returned about two hours later the bag was gone.
The crook used the woman’s debit card at a discount store, a deli, and a pizza shop, according to a police report.
Stolen pricey wheels
A bandit looted a man’s $3,500 Marinoni Leggero road bike from the basement of his President Street apartment on July 27.
The 36-year-old man told police that he last saw his red two-wheeler at 10 am inside the residence between Fourth and Fifth avenues before he went to go ride another bicycle in a nearby park.
When he returned eight hours later the bike was missing. It was taken from a common area in the basement that all tenants have the keys to, according to a police report.
Bathroom break
A robber snagged a woman’s iPhone and credit and debit cards that she accidentally left inside the bathroom of a Fifth Avenue cafe on July 22.
The victim told police that she left her stuff inside the restroom of the shop between Douglass and Degraw streets at 10 am and when she returned 30 minutes later to fetch her belongings, they were nowhere to be found.
Car gone
A crook stole a man’s 1999 Toyota that was parked on Plaza Street West sometime between the evening of July 21 and the morning of July 22.
The 74-year-old man told cops that he left his red ride on the street near Eighth Avenue on July 21 at 5:30 pm and when he returned the next day at noon, the car was gone.
— Natalie Musumeci
Reach reporter Thomas Tracy at ttracy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2525.
