76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Smith snatcher
A quick-handed bandit snatched a woman’s iPhone on W. Ninth Street on Nov. 18, cops said.
The 27-year-old woman said she was near Smith Street on her way to the train at 7:25 pm when the fiend grabbed her phone and fled down Smith Street toward Court Street.
The woman used her Find My iPhone app and saw that the phone was last used on Clinton and Ninth streets, but cops could not trace the perp.
Picture perfect
Cops cuffed a man who they say swiped a picture from a factory warehouse on Ferris Street on Nov. 18, police said.
The 45-year-old man from New Jersey allegedly left the warehouse between Wolcott and Dikeman streets at 12:50 pm holding a framed picture worth $10,000, and was filmed doing so.
Man in the mirror
A man was arrested after striking the driver’s-side mirror of a cop car on President Street on Nov. 24, police said.
Cops say they were responding to a verbal dispute near Smith Street at 2:55 am, where a 38-year-old man was arguing with his wife. The man became angry upon the officers’ arrival and hit the mirror of their marked Chevy, shattering it into pieces, according to reports.
Laptops of love
A burglar stole two laptops from a man’s Smith Street apartment on Nov. 15, police said.
The 27-year-old man said the unknown perp must have entered his apartment near Union Street between 11:30 am and 1 pm. There were no signs of forced entry, and the door to the apartment does not shut properly, the man said.
Gun and gone
A villain robbed a man at gunpoint on W. Ninth Street in the middle of the afternoon of Nov. 23, police said.
The man said he was near Smith Street at 1:30 pm when the perp swiped $85 from him. Officers made several attempts to get a description of the robber, but the man refused to give any more details.
Dark details
A thief scratched and robbed a woman on Hoyt Street on Nov. 13, police said.
The 27-year-old woman was in front of the apartment complex near Butler Street at 1:50 am when a man approached her and stole her iPhone along with $20, she later told police.
The woman, who had bruises and scratches on her neck, said that “everything went dark” until 2:30 am, when she called 911.
— Megan Riesz
