76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Major baggage
A thief swiped more than $1,000 worth of high-end tote bags from a car parked on Richard Street on July 7, cops said.
The victim, the head of a tote-bag company, parked his 2004 Volvo between Bowne and Seabring Streets at 8 am and when he came back for it at 7 am the next day, his camera and a handful of the designer pouches were gone, according to a police report.
Careless shopping
A ne’er-do-well swiped a cellphone left on a table at a store on Beard Street on July 7, according to law enforcement officials.
The victim tried tracking the phone down, but the scalawag appeared to have turned the device off, according to police.
Heavy metal
One or more prowlers broke into a New York City Housing Authority building on Verona Street sometime between July 5 and 7 and hauled off a coil of copper wire, cops said.
The burglar(s) snuck into the basement of the building near King Street through a construction site in the side of the building and grabbed 200 feet of wire, valued at $3,500, according to a police report.
The thieve(s) made the heist sometime between 3 pm on July 5 and 7 am on July 7, officers said.
Van-damn!
An anti-social auto-phile took off with a woman’s parked car on Pioneer Street on July 3, according to the authorities.
The lady parked her 2004 Honda minivan between Richard and Van Brunt Streets at 10 pm, cops said.
When she returned at 1 pm on July 4, there was only air where her ride had sat, police stated. Officers ran a check and confirmed the van had not been towed, a report states.
Subway smackdown
A ruffian in a crew of teens attacked a straphanger on a Coney Island-bound F train on July 5, police said.
The commuter was minding his own business on the train entering the Smith-Ninth Street station, when several galoots approached him, according to cops.
One of the villains clocked the victim in the face and the teens quickly made a hasty getaway, a report states. Emergency medical personnel transported the man to the hospital, police said.
The report described the attackers only as males in their mid-teens with braids.
Chump steals change
An opportunistic thief broke into a car on Warren Street sometime between July 4 and 5 and made off with $15 in quarters and the owner’s driver’s license, according to a report.
The owner parked the vehicle between Columbia and Hicks streets around 11 am on July 4, and when she returned at 8 am the next day, the car had been broken into and the items were gone, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz
