Crime & Safety

Grand Larcenies Galore in This Week's Police Blotter

A round-up of property taken from people in the neighborhood.

This blotter was compiled using information provided by the New York Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Grand Larceny

At 6 p.m. on Jan. 28, a woman reported she was riding the B38 Bus on Vanderbilt and Clinton avenues when she felt someone pushing up against her. Property was removed from her person, including $40, a debit card and a company ID card. 

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At 6:57 p.m. on Jan. 28, a 31-year-old woman reported that her wallet was removed from her purse while she was on a crowded C train between the Jay Street and Clinton Avenue stops earlier that week. In the wallet was a gift card, credit cards and debit cards. 

Between 4 p.m. Jan. 24 and 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29, an unknown perp took 480 feet of electrical cable from the roof of SATO Construction on Clinton Avenue, valued at $3,000.   

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At 11:05 p.m. on Jan. 30, a 41-year-old man reported items were taken from his vehicle, which was parked on Lafayette Avenue near Washington Avenue. When the man returned to his car, he discovered an unknown perp had drilled a hole beneath the driver's side door lock, entered the vehicle and removed items including a MacBook Pro, iPad, messenger bag and power cords.

At 1:14 p.m. on Feb. 1, a 20-year-old female reported she went to use the bathroom in a Myrtle Avenue diner and left her property there, and when she returned to look for it, it was missing. Property taken included the woman's iPhone 5, debit card and money. 

At 10:44 a.m. on Feb. 3, a 46-year-old woman reported an unknown perp took her ID card, credit card and bag of items from the Tillary Street Women's Shelter. 

At 12:42 p.m. on Feb. 3, a 47-year-old woman reported she noticed items including her wallet, credit card, debit card and BJ membership card were missing from her hand bag after returning home from a building on South Portland Avenue near Lafayette Avenue. An unknown perp made a transaction with her debit card at Men's Warehouse at 139 Flatbush Ave. for $598 before she could cancel the card.

At approximately 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 27, a quick-handed crook snatched a 37-year-old woman's iPhone as the doors of a southbound Q train they were riding opened at the Atlantic Avenue subway station. 


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