TAKE OUT
Two thieves cleaned out a Washington St. restaurant on Aug. 29, taking a variety of miscellaneous goods.
A restaurant rep told police that the eatery between Carlisle and Rector Sts. was closed, but unlocked at 11:02 p.m., when the crooks let themselves in and started stealing. The thieves made off with bank cards, headphones, sunglasses, bags, and a Metrocard, among other items, cops said.
BATTER UP
Cops arrested an alleged thief suspected of beating a man with a baseball bat on Broad St. in order to get his phone on Aug. 25.
The victim told police that he was near S. William St. at 10:40 p.m., when the suspect allegedly clocked him in the head with the Louisville Slugger and grabbed his cell phone.
After cops collared the suspect, they recovered the victim’s phone and the victim identified the man as his attacker, police said.
TEEN TERROR
Cops are hunting a pint-sized perp who nabbed a phone from out the hands of a 40-year-old man in The Battery on Aug. 24.
The victim told police that he was near South and State Sts. at 6:30 p.m., when the teen, who looked to be about 14-years-old, rode by on his bike and snatched the cell.
The kid then easily outpaced the middle-aged man and made his escape, cops said.
A search of the area yielded no results and the victim said he didn’t have any tracking apps installed on his phone, according to police.
DESIGNER BAGGED
A purse-snatcher grabbed a high-priced designer bag off the shoulder of a woman on South St. on Aug. 26.
The 24-year-old victim told police that she was near Beekman St. at 11:30 a.m. when the thief grabbed her $4,300 Louis Vatton purse and was gone in an instant.
The thief was so deft and quick, the woman didn’t have a hope of getting a good look at him, cops said.
A police search came up empty following the theft, and no surveillance footage could be found of the crime, according to police.
CLEANED OUT
A woman found her Gold St. apartment looted after she left her door unlocked for cleaners to come on Aug. 26.
The 23-year-old victim told police that she scheduled a cleaning through the Handy cleaning service and left her apartment between Liberty and Platt Sts. unsecured at 9:30 a.m. When she returned at 6 p.m. that day, she discovered that three hand bags, altogether worth a whopping $7,250, were missing. Her apartment, meanwhile, had not been cleaned, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
