B.P.C. mugging A gang of four men attacked a Brooklyn man, 19, at 3 p.m. Wed., June 4 on Chambers St. in front of Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City and stole his iPhone, police said. Some of the gang grabbed the victim around the neck and threw him to the ground while another member snatched the phone from his right hand. The victim described one of his attackers as a black man, about 5’5” and 160 pounds, dressed in black with his hair in a Mohawk cut.
Club bash A woman patron of Remix, the club at 27 Park Pl., told police that a woman hit her in the face with an unknown object in front of the club at 1:15 a.m. Thurs., June 5. Police canvassed the area but did not find the suspect. The victim, 33, went to Bellevue Hospital where she was treated for facial cuts.
Fed slashing Police arrested a cabdriver, Ramez Akladious, 26, around 4:30 a.m. Sat., June 7 and charged him with slashing his passenger on the forearm with a box cutter on Maiden Lane in front of the Federal Reserve Bank during an argument over the fare. The suspect was charged with second degree assault and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney.
Car break-in arrest A woman on King St. called police at about 5 p.m. Sat., May 31 when she saw someone putting what looked like a screwdriver into the door of a car parked in front of 50 King St. east of Varick St. Police arrested Jon Reich, 53, and charged him with burglary.
Tool theft Burglars broke into a construction site at 459 Broadway sometime between 3 p.m. Tues., June 3 and 3 a.m. Wed., June 4 through a side door on Grand St., broke a lock on a large tool box and made off with 35 power tools valued at $10,483, police said.
Burrowing burglar A woman resident of 174 Duane St. left her apartment at 1:15 p.m. Wed., May 28 and returned at 10 p.m. to find a hole in the wall at the side of a stair entrance to her apartment, police said. She found her apartment ransacked and two laptop computers were gone.
Grand heist Burglars entered an apartment at 26 Grand St. at Sixth Ave. sometime between 4 a.m. Fri., May 30 and 2 p.m. the following day, took computer, audio and video appliances valued at $8,600 and walked out the front door, police said. The burglars got into the place from the roof via a fire escape, police said.
Laptop lost A patron of Ulysses bar and folk house in the Stone Street Historic District put his laptop bag on the floor in front of the stool where he sat down around 6 p.m. Fri., May 30 and when he got up to leave at 7:30 p.m. discovered that the bag, with the computer and his cell phone, had been stolen.
Hit with glass A 33-year-old patron, of The Door, a bar at 144 Sullivan St. between W. Houston and Prince Sts., was talking to a stranger sitting on the stool next to him during the early hours of Sun., June 1 when the stranger slammed him in the face with the glass he was drinking from, police said. The assailant, described as a white man about 30, 6’ and weighing about 220 pounds, fled.
Stolen bag A 27-year-old woman patron of Starbucks at 471 Broadway between Broome and Grand Sts. put her Prada bag on the floor beside her at 7:30 p.m. Sat., May 31 and discovered an hour later that the bag with her cell phone, credit cards, ID and $45 in cash was gone, police said. A surveillance camera recorded the image of a man walking into the place, kicking the bag and picking it up and walking out, police said.
Robbed by friend A resident of 125 Barclay St. near West St. told police that an acquaintance took his camera from his hand at 7:45 p.m. Wed., June 4 when an argument broke out in the victim’s apartment. The victim said the acquaintance pushed him, declined to give back the camera and left, police said. The camera is valued at $200.
— Albert Amateau
