Prints & bag lifted
A tag team of two thieves walked into the Saint Laurent Paris store at 80 Greene St. in Soho last week. While one of the men distracted an employee, the other took a $1,190 handbag from the display case and hid it underneath his shirt, police said. He then wiped down the case with a cloth.
Police say the whole operation took two minutes, from 4:39 p.m. to 4:41 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 24. The two men left together. No prints were lifted from the scene. The police say both men are in their 30s, are 5’10” man and about 200 pounds.
Costly coat grabbed
Last week in Tribeca, a woman in her 20s went into a Steven Alan Annex store at 103 Franklin St., grabbed a black leather jacket worth $2,900 from the rack and shoved it into her bag. She then fled north on W. Broadway around 2 p.m. on Tues., Sept. 23. A 31-year-old male employee reported the theft.
All work, no iPhones
A man entered The Dubliner, an Irish pub at 45 Stone St. in the Financial District on Tues., Sept. 23 at 12:23 p.m. and stole over $1,200 worth of the staff’s belongings, police said.
The thief made his way to the waitresses’ workstation and soon left with two iPhones, one iPad, bank cards, and an Arizona driver license. They belonged to two women, 22 and 31. Police say the devices were turned off so tracking couldn’t be used. The thief got away with $1,200 worth of electronics.
Thief steals safe
On 1:30 a.m. on Fri., Sept. 26, a man pried open the side door of Distilled restaurant and went to the manager’s basement office where he stole a metal digital combination safe.
He then exited from the same side door of the Tribeca restaurant at 211 W. Broadway between Franklin and White Sts. The thief got away with $4,775 in cash and $750 in gift certificates. The suspect was captured on video tape, but police have not made an arrest.
Purses pinched, stashed in pants
Last week, two high-end retail Soho stores were hit by shoplifters, police said.
After realizing his inventory was off, a 35-year-old employee of LXR&Co. store at 112 Wooster St. between Prince and Spring Sts. reviewed the security tapes. Footage shows two men entering the store on Wed., Sept. 24 at 4:50 p.m. and taking $9,689 worth of Louis Vuitton and Chanel bags. The suspects stashed the expensive purses in their pants and fled on foot on Wooster St.
At the Vera Wang at 158 Mercer St., a 27-year-old female employee discovered $2,300 worth of pocket books missing at 5 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 27. Police do not have any information about any suspects.
Inside job?
When a 32-year-old employee arrived to work at Crave at 386 Canal St. near W. Broadway in Tribeca to open the espresso bar, he found the glass side door broken and $600 missing from the cash register tray on the second floor.
Video shows the suspect, who broke in sometime after 8 p.m. on Mon., Sept. 22, attempted to crack the safe but was not successful. According to the owner, the suspect left through the trash bin area that only someone with inside knowledge would know about.
– DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
