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By Max Jaeger
Brooklyn Daily
68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Shadow money
A shady type stole entered a man’s 85th Street house and stole $800 on June 3 — while the victim was home.
The victim told cops he was taking it easy in the living room of his house between Dyker Place and Seventh Avenue around 6:30 pm when he saw a shadow in a mirror.
He rushed to his bedroom in time to see the thief climbing out a window, according to law enforcement sources.
He’s no genius
Cops cuffed grabby geek who they say stole an Apple computer from a 66th Street store on June 3.
Officials say the perp strolled into the store between 10th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway around 2:50 pm and took a MacBook Pro, but the store owner phoned the cops, who arrived in time to take a suspect in.
Bail doubt
A schemer duped a grandmother into doling out $4,000 on June 5 — thinking she was bailing her granddaughter out of jail.
The victim, who lives between Fourth and Fifth avenues, got a call at 11 am from a mystery man claiming to be in Florida, police say.
The caller told the granny her kin was behind bars and needed $4,000 to make bail, instructing her to purchase the sum in pre-paid debit cards and wire the money to him, which she did.
All ears
Authorities arrested a man who they say tried to steal headphones and several other items from a drugstore on Fort Hamilton Parkway on June 2.
The suspect entered the store between 64th and 65th streets at 7:50 pm and grabbed $1,000 worth of headphones, speakers, and chewing gum before attempting to flee the store, police allege.
Check trouble
A check scammer tricked an elderly Ridge Boulevard woman into paying him $6,000 on May 30.
The woman received a check for $6,637.66 to her home between Shore Road and Marine Avenue and promptly deposited the sum thinking it came from Publishers Clearing House, police sources say.
The victim then got a phone call directing her to withdraw $6,000.01 and send it to an address in Queens. Soon after she dropped the money in the mail, the woman’s bank called to tell her the first check bounced.
— Max Jaeger