Motorcycles boosted
Last weekend, a 22-year-old Queens man parked his motorcycle at the corner of Spring St. and Washington St. in Hudson Sq. and went to work.
When he returned the next day, on Sun., Sept. 21 at 6 a.m., his 2009 white Yamaha motorcycle, valued at $7,500, had vanished. The man still had his keys and police say there was a license plate recognition on the Williamsburg Bridge.
Another Yamaha motorcycle, this one a gray 2008 model worth $6,000, was stolen from the front of a building on John St. near Nassau St. The victim parked his motorcycle at 10 p.m. on Wed., Sept. 17, and spent the night as his girlfriend’s apartment. The next morning, at 8 a.m., he realized the bike was gone.
13 grand stolen from car
A witness saw someone break into a vehicle in the Financial District last weekend. The 25-year-old man from Brooklyn saw the suspect bust the lock on the front passenger side at noon on Sat., Sept. 20, and steal property from the back seat — computers, iPads, clothes, bags, American cash and Chinese yuan worth $13,199, police say.
The suspect was last seen on Water St. with three bags. The three victims returned to the car at the corner of Maiden Lane and Water St. Two of the men, aged 52 and 50, were from China, and a third was a 25-year-old Queens resident.
Brooklyn’s credit card revenge
Police arrested four Brooklyn men last week in two different incidents for suspected credit card fraud.
At the Apple Store at 103 Prince St. in Soho, police say the arresting officer saw two men making $3,000 in purchases with two stolen credit cards at 3:15 on Thurs., Sept. 18. Two suspects — a 28-year-old East New York resident and a 20-year-old from Brownsville — were arrested. One of the victims of the fraud was a 73-year-old Staten Island woman, the other a man, 63, from Troy, New York.
Also on Thurs., Sept. 18, a suspect was observed using a forged credit card at the American Eagle at the corner of W. Houston and Broadway in Soho at 6:30 p.m., police said. The man was in possession of six forged credit cards, a driver’s license that was not his, and marijuana. Two men were arrested, one from Boerum Hill, 25, the other, 26, from Park Slope.
Computer & cufflinks taken
A 26-year-old New Jersey man made sure all his doors were locked on his 1997 black Toyota Corolla when he parked it at the corner of South St. and Dover St. in the Seaport at 5 p.m. on Thurs., Sept. 18. The caution was for naught. When he returned the next day at 11 a.m., he discovered the doors unlocked and his Apple MacBook Pro swiped along with other electronics, clothes and a set of Burberry silver cufflinks worth $200.
Over $3,600 worth of his property was filched. Police say there was no forced entry observed on the vehicle.
Tribeca heist
Over $10,000 worth of construction tools, which included lasers, drills and grinders, was stolen from a Tribeca storage area that had been unlocked for four months.
The theft occurred on the third floor on Mon., Sept. 1 at 7:30 a.m., but was not reported until two weeks later. Police said that multiple people and companies had access to the construction site at 28 N. Moore St. and that the company and the building owner are engaged in a financial dispute.
Did thief hit the jackpot?
On Fri., Sept. 19, at 11:40 a.m. at a newsstand in front of 25 Park Place in the Financial District, a man grabbed about $1,400 in scratch lottery tickets, $500 in cash and $200 in cigarette candy gum for a total of $2,100. Police say the man fled on Park Place toward Broadway. No word on whether the thief made any more on the tickets.
— Dusica Sue Malesevic
