78th Precinct
Park Slope
Scaredy-cat
A would-be burglar was chased out of a man’s Sixth Avenue home on Sept. 28, after he climbed through a window and ran smack into the residence’s owner.
The victim told police that he was inside his home between Fourth and Fifth streets at 1:20 pm, when he spotted the hapless intruder scrambling through his front window.
“What are you doing?” the victim shouted.
Upon realizing he’d been made, the would-be crook fled the same way he came out, none the richer, with the cops on his case, according to police.
Identity crisis
A identify thief enriched himself to the tune of $23,709 after opening four credit cards and registering a car in the name of a Third Street man over a period of time beginning on Sept. 16.
The victim told police that he was inside his home between Fifth and Sixth avenues at 8 am that day, when he received New York state license plates for a 2016 Honda sedan that he never owned. The victim later discovered that credit cards had been opened in his name at several retail stores — including Lowes, Conn’s, HH Gregg, and Macy’s — and that the thief had used them to enjoy a spectacular spending spree, according to police.
Bike bandit
A thief put a fork in a Park Slope man’s days of pleasure cruising after he drove off with his 2011 Ducati crotch rocket parked on Sixth Avenue on Sept. 29.
The victim told police that he left his sport bike between Ninth and 10th streets at 6:30 pm, and returned four days later to find an empty spot where his pricey bike had been.
Mobile withdrawl
A cyber crook managed to use a St. Marks Avenue woman’s credit cards to withdraw more than $4,000 from automated teller machines throughout the city in a spree dating back to June 28, and the worst part was that the victim’s cards never left her handbag.
The victim, who lives between Flatbush and Carlton avenues, filed a report on Oct. 2, and provided police with bank records showing illicit transactions totalling $4,443.50 going all the way back to June. The woman also stated to police that she never lost possession of her card.
Truck stop
Cops are hunting two rogues who they say nabbed cash from the back of a commercial truck idling on Fourth Avenue on Oct. 2.
The victim told police that he parked his truck between 14th and 15th streets at 1 pm, before ducking into a nearby property to make a quick delivery.
Fifteen minutes later, the driver returned to his vehicle to find the $1,200 he had stashed in the back was nowhere to be found, cops said.
Caravan crook
A car jacker made off with a man’s 1998 Dodge Caravan — valued at a whopping $500 — which its owner had parked on Sixth Avenue on Oct. 1.
The victim told police he parked his aging ride between 10th and 11th streets at 11 am, and returned the next day to find he was down a car.
— Colin Mixson
