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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Major baggage
A thief gained some serious baggage when he swiped more than $1,000 worth of tote bags from a car parked on Richard Street on July 7, cops said.
The victim parked his gray 2004 Volvo between Bowne and Seabring Streets at 8 am and when he came back for it at 7 am the next day, his camera and a handful of designer tote bags and travel bags were gone, according to a police report.
Careless shopping
A ne’er-do-well swiped a cellphone left on a table at a store on Beard Street on July 7.
The victim tried tracking the phone down, but the thief appeared to have turned the device off, according to police.
Take that copper
One or more bad guys broke into a New York Housing Authority building on Verona Street sometime between July 5 and 7, hauling off a lucrative coil of copper wire, police say.
The burglars snuck into the basement of the building near King Street through a construction site in the side of the building and grabbed 200 feet of wire, valued at $3,500 according to the police report.
The scavengers made the heist sometime between 3 pm on July 5 and 7 am on July 7, according to cops.
Missing ride
A fiend took off with a woman’s car she parked on Pioneer Street on July 3.
The woman parked her green 2004 Honda Odyssey between Richard and Van Brunt Streets at 10 pm a report states.
When she returned at 1 pm on July 4, some miscreant had made off with her ride, according to cops. Police ran a check and confirmed the van had not been towed.
Subway smackdown
Several young ruffians attacked a straphanger on a Coney Island-bound F train on July 5, police say.
The man was minding his own business train entered the Smith-Ninth Street station, when several males in their mid-teens approached him, according to cops.
One of them clocked the victim’s left side of his face with a closed fist and the teens quickly made their getaway, a report states. Emergency medical services transported the man to the hospital, police said.
The report described the attackers only as males in their mid-teens with braids.
Chump steals change
A thief broke into a car on Warren Street sometime between July 4 and 5 — yanking $15 in quarters and the owner’s driver’s license, according to a report.
The owner parked the vehicle between Columbia and Hicks Streets around 11 am on July 4, and when she returned at 8 am the nex day, the car had been broken into and the items were missing, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz