Perp Snatches Phone of Sleeping ER Patient: Police Blotter Stories

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

Robbery 

At 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 25, a 26-year-old male was on a northbound A train at Nostrand Avenue that arrived at the Clinton/Washington avenue station when a perp punched him in the face and head, threw him to the ground and took is iPhone 5. The perp got off the train and ran in unknown direction.

At 4 a.m. on Feb. 24, a 32-year-old man was leaving a Sanders Studio on Waverly Avenue when someone came up behind him, hit him in the head causing him to lose consciousness and took his cellphone. The victim was brought to LICH Hospital with internal bleading and swelling to the brain. He did not know what hit him in the head.

At 2 p.m. on Feb. 26, a 24-year-old woman was walking west on Clifton Place toward Saint James Place when a man came up behind her, grabbed her around her chest and took her iPhone from her hand. The man ran west on Clifton Place.

At 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 27, a 18-year-old man was robbed of his iPhone by two males on Clifton Avenue near Willougby Avenue. A a 15-year-old male and 21-year-old man, who had marijuana on his person, were arrested in connection with the incident later in the day. 

Assault

At 4 p.m. on Feb. 27, a 18-year-old man was attacked at South Portland Avenue and South Elliott Place by three other males, being punched, kicked and struck by a wooden cane. He was brought to Brooklyn Hospital by EMS with serious physical injury. A 17-year-old and 15-year-old male were arrested in connection to the incident. 

At 3:25 a.m. on March 2, a 20-year-old man was arguing with his friend at 5 Fleet Walk when his friend struck him in the head with a broomstick. The friend ran in an unknown direction, and the victim was brought to Long Island College Hospital, where police were able to take the victim's report.

Burglary

At 8:50 a.m. on Feb. 25, a 28-year-old man returned to his Clermont Avenue apartment near Park Avenue to find taken his Apple Mac Book Pro and iPod, worth $1,450. There were no signs of forced entry and the man's neighbors didn't hear anything. 

From 2:30 p.m. on Jan 22 until 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 22, $3,200 worth in bracelets were taken froma 45-year-old woman's Vanderbilt Avenue apartment located near Park Avenue. There were no signs of forced entry, and the apartmetn had been unlocked. 

At 2 p.m. on March 2, a 33-year-old woman found her Grand Avenue home, located near Park Avenue, broken into. The home's front door was unlocked and $1,000 was taken from her purse located in her bedroom.

A 36-year-old woman returned to her Clermont Avenue storage unit located near Park avenue, after having been away from 8 p.m. on Nov. 5 to 9 p.m. on March 3, to find her antique vases gone. 

Grand Larceny

From 2 a.m. on Feb. 17 to 8:37 p.m. on Feb. 26, a 26-year-old woman's debit cards were used without permission and $1,500 was taken from her accounts. She was unaware the cards were missing until her bank notified her.

From 7:15 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Feb. 26, a 30-year-old woman's iPhone 5 was taken off her stomach while she was asleep in a hospital bed in the Brooklyn Hopsital Center Emergency Room on DeKalb Avenue. There were no cameras in the area of that area of the hospital.

A 17-year-old male's property valued at $1,275 was swiped from the bleachers of a Park Avenue publich school while he a Feb. 21 basketball practice session from 3:30-6 p.m. In the bag, which was gone by the time he finished practice, were his belt, watch, iPhone, jeans and another bag. 

At 6:30 p.m. on March 2, a 56-year-old woman was at a McDonalds at 395 Flatbush Avenue Extension when someone took her property valued at $1,100 from the chair next to her. Property taken included her driver's license, money, phone charger, clutch and social security card.  

Woman Staggers into DWI Arrest

Police arrested a 31-year-old woman after she illegally parked her car and then staggered over to a cop to ask whether her parking job was OK.

Cops saw the woman park the car so that its front end was sticking into the intersection of St. James Place and Atlantic Avenue just before 4:45 a.m. on March 2. 

When she got out of the car "she was "swaying back and forth," according to the police report.

Then she went up to a cop and said "Did I park the car ok or will I get a ticket? Should I park it somewhere else? Will I get hit there? Is it sticking out too much? I know it's the crosswalk," the report continued.

Noting the woman's "bloodshot watery eyes" and "strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath," the cop gave her a Breathalyzer test, which came up as .082. The legal limit is .08.