Downtown chain snatches
Two pricey gold chains were snatched off victim’s necks in the Financial District last week, police say.
In the first incident, at the corner of State and Whitehall Sts. on Sat., Aug. 29 at 4:40 p.m. two men got into a verbal dispute. The fight escalated with one of the men punched the other in the face repeatedly, causing bruising and swelling to the victim’s left check. The aggressor then grabbed the $4,000 14 karat gold chain off the victim’s neck, who is 22 and from Long Island.
Police described the suspect as around 25, 5ft. 7” and 140 pounds.
The next day, on Sun., Aug. 30, a Brooklyn woman, 57, was on the 2 train at 9 a.m., police say. As the train pulled into the Wall St. station, a man standing next to her ripped the $2,000 gold and diamond chain off her neck. The suspect took off when the doors opened. The woman ran after him, but lost site of him as he fled.
Medicine heist
Two men went into a Duane Reade in the Financial District and stole over $1,100 of medicines from its shelves, police say.
The shoplifters went into the pharmacy at 67 Broad St. at 8:15 a.m. on Thurs., Aug. 27 and shoved 31 packages of Mucinex, 25 of Tylenol, 10 Vicks, 10 Dimatapps, two Advils as well as Theraflu into their book bag, a 37-year-old male employee told police.
Electric bike stolen
It is an all too familiar scenario: a bike is locked up but when the owner returns, it’s gone.
This time the victim was a 24-year-old Queens man who locked his $1,500 electric bike in front of 121 Fulton St. in the Financial District on Thurs., Aug. 27 at 7:30 p.m., police say. When he came back an hour later, the bike was gone and the cable lock that he used was on the ground.
Car break-in
A man was enjoying his Saturday night at a club in Hudson Square while a thief broke into his car and grabbed $1,525 worth of stuff, police say.
The 34-year-old New Jersey parked his car in front of 23 King St. Aug. 29, and made sure all his doors were locked, he told police. He then went to the club, which the police did not name — SOB’s is the closest to the crime.
When he returned at 2:30 a.m., Sun. Aug. 30 , the driver’s side window was broken and a thief got away with a black backpack, clothes, keys, various credit cards, a $425 Samsung phone, $650 iPod, $450 iPad and gold earrings and ring, according to police.
Police did not release a description of the vehicle.
Grand theft
A woman, 75, who was enjoying Battery Park City’s greenery left her purse unattended for half an hour on a park bench. When she came back, her purse with an e-ticket to Reno, $1,000 and passport were gone.
The woman told police that she walked away from her purse on Sat., Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. on a bench near the Ritz-Carlton. When she returned, it was gone.
Passive observer?
An Oklahoma tourist got her wallet stolen out of her purse at a Financial District restaurant and only realized it when a man who witnessed the theft told her.
On Thurs., Aug. 27, the woman, 19, was having lunch at Melt at 111 Fulton St. at 12:40 p.m. and put her bag beside her on the floor, police say. She told police that a man then approached her and said that he had seen someone go inside her purse and take something. When she checked her purse, her $100 green Ralph Lauren wallet, $26 and credit cards were gone.
— DUSICA SUE MALESEVIC
