Crime & Safety

Woman's Laptop Snatched from Clinton Hill Cafe: Police Blotter

Incident occurred at the Joint on Myrtle Avenue.

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

A roundup of recent crime in the area:

At 2:30 p.m. on April 18, a 34-year-old woman left her macbook on the table at the Joint on Myrtle Avenue to use the bathroom. When she returned five minutes later, the laptop, worth $1,100 was gone. 

At 2 a.m. on April 21, a 21-year-old woman said she got off the B54 at Carlton and Myrtle Avenue and was followed by 23-year-old Steven Williams, whom she knows. When she reached the front of her building on North Portland Avenue he took her cellphone from her hand and refused to give it back. Police arrested Williams in connection to the incident.
 
At 2:10 p.m. on April 21, a 50-year-old woman was walking east on Myrtle Avenue near Fort Greene Park when she said a teenager approached from behind and snatched her cell from her left hand. She said the perp ran into Ingersol houses. 

At 8 a.m. on April 16, a 68-year-old man parked his 1991 Jeep Cherokee in front of a Waverly Avenue home near Gates Avenue. He returned to the car at 3 p.m. to find the vehicle missing. 


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