78th Precinct
Park Slope
Not smoothing things over
Two women got into a kerfuffle at a Third Avenue hotel on April 14, with one woman attacking the other with whatever projectiles she could get her hands on, according to a report.
The fight broke out at 11:45 pm in the hotel room between Union and Sackett streets, and led to one woman — five months pregnant and intoxicated, according to her victim — violently attacking her victim with a cloths iron and a lamp, police said.
The assailant fled to parts unknown after the attack, according to a report.
Computer trouble
Crooks swiped a laptop from a Garfield Place computer company on April 15, cops said.
The employee left a $2,358 MacBook Pro along with a $69 charger on a desk in the business between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and sometime between 9:15 am and noon the laptop vanished, according to a report.
Come here, you punk
A teen stole cash, a smartphone, and a credit card from a man’s parked van on Sterling Place on April 16 — but handed it all back when the victim confronted him.
The victim took matters into his own hands when he witnessed the young man, who he estimated to be in his late teens, walking away from the van parked between Sixth and Seventh avenues shortly before 10 am, according to a report.
He confronted the teen and made him hand over the $160 in cash, Samsung phone, and credit card the young scofflaw had snatched from the vehicle moments before, police said.
Needles destruction
A lummox was flummoxed in an attempt to steal a parked car on Sterling Place sometime between April 12 and April 15, according to a report.
The doltish thief pryed open the passenger-side door of the vehicle left at Sixth Avenue and mucked around in the ignition for a while before giving up, cops said. The vehicle’s owner found the car with a dented door and a damaged ignition column, according to police.
Marital subterfuge
A man used the cover of marital bliss to rip off a Fifth Avenue clothing boutique with an accomplice on April 13, cops said.
A clerk told cops she buzzed the wily thief into the store near Saint Marks Place and helped him look around when he told her that he was there on a mission to buy a gift for his wife, according to a report.
But in the midst of his fake search, another man rang the buzzer, and when the trusting clerk let him into the store, he held open the door while the first man snatched a pair of handbags, worth a total of $1,400, and dashed out the door, police said.
— Noah Hurowitz
