Identity theft
A former employee of Continuum Health Partners’ billing office on Water St. was arrested Mon., Oct. 11 for stealing a total of $9,00 from more than 100 credit card accounts that he opened using information he gathered while working at the office, a spokesperson for the Manhattan District Attorney said. Eric Wolfe, 36, was being held in lieu of bail pending a Nov. 11 court appearance. Investigators looking into the thefts, between Aug. 24 and Sept. 8, traced them to the computer terminal where Wolfe worked when he was employed by the office, which bills patients of Beth Israel, Roosevelt-St. Luke’s and New York Eye and Ear hospitals.
Pace student killed
Mt. Pleasant, N.Y. police fatally shot Danroy Henry, 20, a student at Pace University’s Pleasantville campus in Westchester during the early hours of Sun., Oct. 17 when he drove a car into police responding to fights in the parking lot of a bar in Thornwood, where students were celebrating after a football game. Henry, a N. Easton, Mass. resident and a sophomore on the Pace football team, accelerated the car and hit an officer after police knocked on the window of the vehicle. His friends said on Mon., Oct. 17, that he thought police were ordering him to move the car from a fire lane when the incident occurred.
Thompson St. burglaries
A woman resident of a Thompson St. apartment told police that she heard a noise in her bedroom at 7:15 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 14, while she was in the kitchen. When she went to check it out she discovered a man trying to enter from a fire escape window, police said. The burglar, described as a slender build white man wearing a red baseball cap and a blue hooded sweatshirt, fled when she screamed. Two days earlier, a resident of a nearby Thompson St. apartment returned home from work at about 4:30 p.m. Tues., Oct. 12 and discovered that two laptop computers had been stolen while he was out.
Girl muggers
A girl, 16, was walking west on Broome St. towards Thompson St. while drinking soup from a takeout container around 9:10 p.m. Sat., Oct. 16, when two girls described as being a little older that the victim stopper her, pulled her hair, grabbed her bag and fled north on Thompson St. The bag had $10 in cash and the victim’s BlackBerry.
Bicycle theft
A man who locked his bicycle with a cable-lock to a No Parking sign pole at the southwest corner of Prince and Mercer Sts. at 1:35 p.m. Sat., Oct. 16 returned at 5 p.m. to find the lock had been cut and the cycle stolen. The victim, 26, valued his Cannondale Scalpel mountain bike at $2,500.
Shoe shopping theft
A young woman visiting from Burlingame, Cal., was shopping for shoes at the Camper store at 125 Prince St. around 5:50 p.m. Mon., Oct. 18 and placed her bag on a bench while she tried a pair. She turned back to it after a few minutes and discovered it had been stolen. The victim, 19, had $220, credit cards, her California driver’s license and Loyola University student ID, in the bag.
Picked on subway
A Brooklyn woman got off a No. 3 train at the Chambers St. subway station at W. Broadway around 9 a.m. Sat., Oct. 9 when someone on the platform told her that her bag was open. She discovered that her wallet had been stolen with $20 cash, credit cards and a food stamp card with $367 on it. The victim told police she was bumped a few time during her ride from Saratoga Ave., in Brooklyn but she didn’t think anything of it because the train was crowded.
Gone in four hours
A woman, 50, discovered that her wallet had been lifted from her backpack around 9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 16 when she checked as she was entering 199 Water St., police said. She lost $200 in cash and discovered that $1,574 in unauthorized charges on her Visa card. The victim told police that the last time she saw her wallet was at 5 p.m. when she took it out to use a credit card. But she said she had no idea where or when the wallet was lifted.
Clean car break-in
A Wilmington, Del. man parked his 2004 Chrysler Town & Country on Park Pl, between Broadway and Church St. at 9 a.m. Sun. Oct. 17 returned at 5:30 p.m. to find that items with a total value of $2,680 had been stolen from it, including a laptop computer, camera and lenses, a breast pump, iPod, two high-end head phone sets and a flashlight. The victim was sure he locked the car but police found no sign of forced entry.
