DOUBLE DIPPING
A thief stole a man’s tools — on two separate occasions — out of a gang box at a Leonard St. construction site sometime after Dec. 2.
The victim told police that he left his kit locked up at the work site between Church St. and W. Broadway at 3:30 p.m., and returned four days later to find the box had been looted.
After he alert his boss to the theft, the manager gave him a set of company tools to borrow, which he returned after work to the same gang box that had been looted the earlier, according to police.
Returning the next day, the man was amazed to find that the company tools he’d borrowed had been stolen as well, cops said.
APPLE PICKING
A thief nabbed an Apple laptop from a Pearl St. nightclub on Dec. 9.
The victim told police that he left his Mac Book Pro inside the manager’s office of the watering hole between Coenties Alley and William St. at 10 a.m., and returned the following day to find it stolen.
The victim suspects an inside job, as only employees had access to the manager’s office where the $2,000 device was nabbed, cops said.
FUR FILCHERS
Cops busted two alleged thieves suspected of nabbing a pricey fur coat from a Wooster St. fashion boutique on Dec. 9.
An employee told police the suspects were spotted inside the shop between Prince and W. Houston Sts. at 5:30 p.m, when they proceeded to nab the $2,150 coat and flee.
BIKE BANDIT
Cops are hunting the thief who nabbed a bicycle locked up outside a Hudson St. apartment building on Dec. 2.
The victim told police that she chained up her bike outside her home between Leonard and Franklin Sts. at 10:30 p.m., and returned early the next morning to find that some crook had taken it for a ride.
MANNEQUIN DOWN
A shoplifter nabbed two designer handbags off a mannequin from inside a Greene St. fashion store on Dec. 8.
Surveillance footage shows the thief waltz into the clothing boutique between Broom and Spring Sts. at 1:45 p.m., before liberating a mannequin there of two Versace bags worth a grand total of $1,100, before taking his leave without paying.
RAZOR SHARP
A crook nabbed nearly $1,500 worth of razors and shaving paraphernalia from a Broadway drug store on Dec. 10.
An employee told police that the crook strode into the pharmacy between Murray St. and Park Pl. at 5:40 p.m., and used a key to unlock a display case containing the plethora of Gillette-brand shaving stuff, which he proceeded to loot before dashing out past the register.
— Colin Mixson
