78th Precinct
Park Slope
Swiped and gone
A crook swiped three laptops and a camera from a woman’s apartment on Prospect Place on Nov. 20, police said.
The 28-year-old woman said she left her apartment near Flatbush Avenue at 10 am, and came back at 4 pm to find her three MacBook Pros and Nikon camera missing. A neighbor said he did not hear anything.
Potty pooper
A 29-year-old man was arrested for attempting to break into a woman’s apartment on Union Street on Nov. 22, police said.
The 29-year-old woman said she was potty training her daughter in the bathroom of the abode between Third and Fourth avenues at 10:45 pm when she saw the man trying to come in through the window, and leave after he could not get in. Police said they later recovered a ladder below the window.
Wallet woes
A criminal snatched a woman’s wallet from her jacket pocket while she shopped at a department store on Flatbush Avenue on Nov. 24, police said.
The 28-year-old woman said she was in the store near Atlantic Avenue between 3:56 and 5:05 pm, when she realized that someone had reached into her coat and stolen her passport, driver’s license, credit cards, $1,590 in cash, and a Marc Jacobs wristlet.
She said she did not feel anyone bump into her at the time, though many people had reached over her right side, she said.
Pizza perp
A quick-handed bandit grabbed a cellphone from a woman’s hand while she sat on a bench on Fifth Avenue on Nov. 21, police said.
The 28-year-old female was in front of a pizza place between Prospect Place and Park Place at 4:25 pm when a man took her iPhone from her hand and took off down Park Place into a four-door sports utility vehicle. The woman tried to use her Find My iPhone app with no success.
Land r-over
A car jacker stole a Land Rover parked on Second Avenue on Nov. 21, cops said.
The 40-year-old man said he parked the vehicle between Eighth and Ninth streets at 9:30 am, and upon his return at 1:45 pm, the car was missing. There was no glass on the ground.
The man had previously reported the car missing in an unrelated incident on Nov. 15, but said he found it himself and canceled the alarm on Nov. 17.
Bank cards bandit
A sneaky criminal took a woman’s bank cards, car keys, driver’s license, and $400 in cash while she washed her hands at a public bathroom on Atlantic Avenue on Nov. 20, police said.
The 32-year-old woman said her banks called her around 11 pm and informed her that $37.10 was charged to her Chase card, $71 to her Bank of America card.
Toyota to go
A conniving criminal broke into a man’s Toyota parked on Bergen Street on Nov. 20, cops said.
The man said he left his car between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues at 6 pm, and when he returned at 9 pm, the car’s passenger-side window was broken. The criminal swiped the man’s iPad, $500, driver’s license, credit and debit cards, and handbag.
Bike bandit
A thief got away with a man’s motorcycle parked on a Seventh Street sidewalk on Nov. 24, police said.
The 22-year-old man said he last saw his Kawaski motorcycle between Fourth and Fifth avenues at 1 am, and went to sleep not long after. His mother woke up at 3 am and realized the bike was gone.
Subway snooper
A criminal stole a woman’s bag from a contractor room in the Fourth Avenue subway station on Nov. 17, cops said.
The woman left her bag containing an iPad, keys, camera case, and iPad box case in the unsecured room of the station near Ninth Street at 12:30 pm. When she came back at 4 pm, she realized the bag was stolen.
Cops said there were no signs of forced entry, and multiple people have access to the room.
Car attack
A carjacker zoomed off with a man’s car parked on Fifth Avenue sometime between Nov. 17 and 19, police said.
The 55-year-old man said he parked his Toyota between 14th and 15th streets at 10 pm on Nov. 17, and when he returned on Nov. 19 at 8:50 am, he saw that the car was gone. There were no tire marks or debris at the scene, and there are no other keys to the car, the man said.
— Megan Riesz
