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By Matthew Perlman
Brooklyn Daily
88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Clean get away
A pair of perspiring punks stole $1,200 worth of beauty supplies from a Myrtle Avenue pharmacy on Sept. 10, according to police.
The guys entered the store between Ashland Place and Flatbush Avenue Extension at 5:23 pm, and started stuffing the goods into laundry bags, cops said.
They got deodorant, Dove body wash, and other beauty supplies, store employees reported. Then the cleanly couple hopped in a gray Nissan Murano and sped away, police said.
Laptop grapple
Police arrested a man who they said stole a laptop from a woman while she was in Crispus Attucks Playground on Sept. 10.
The 46-year-old victim told cops she was in the park near the corner of Classon Avenue and Fulton Street at 4:45 am when a guy came over and tried to grab a laptop out of her hand. She struggled, but the guy got away, running on Classon Avenue towards Putnam Avenue, police said.
Cops arrested a 35-year-old suspect at the same corner near where the crime took place at 9:10 pm that day, according to a police report.
Cash stash robbed
A burglar stole $750 in cash out of a Clinton Avenue apartment on Sept. 9, according to police.
The 56-year-old resident of the apartment between Myrtle and Willoughby avenues told cops he left the building at 10:50 pm and returned 15 minutes later to find the door unlocked and the window wide open.
He checked the apartment and found his cash was gone, police said.
Construction crooks
A pair of thieves made off with tools and material they stole from a Lafayette Avenue residence that was under construction on Sept. 11, authorities said.
The 46-year-old victim, who lives between Carlton Avenue and Adelphi Street, told cops he saw a couple of crooks cut the lock to his construction fence at 4:30 am. Then he saw them trying to wheel a box of tools out of the fence before giving up and taking off through the back yard, according to a police report.
They made off with some copper pipes and fittings, some power drills, and a bag with various hand tools, the report says. Cops found bolt cutters and a glove at the scene, and the resident saw a sports utility vehicle speed away, authorities stated.
Lens larceny
An optical operator stole five expensive camera lenses from a production company truck that was parked on Vanderbilt Avenue overnight from Sept. 12 to Sept. 13, officers stated.
Employees of the company said they parked the vehicle at 9:11 pm between Fulton Street and Atlantic Avenue, and returned at 6:30 the next morning.
The burglar had broken the front driver’s-side window of the truck and taken out the lenses, according to a police report. The Zeiss lenses were worth $36,000 the report said.
Stolen stereo
Someone stole a man’s entertainment equipment from his car that was parked on Lafayette Avenue on Sept. 11, cops said.
The 62-year-old entertainment fan told police he locked up his ride between Washington and Waverly avenues at 12:30 am, and returned at 10:50 that morning to find his locks broken and his equipment removed.
The crooks confiscated a sound mixer, a radio, a satellite radio, a Sony Play Station, and some speakers, according to a police report.
Opportunity strikes
An opportunist removed a Louis Vuitton bag containing a computer from an unlocked car parked on the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Adelphi Street on Sept. 10, authorities reported.
The 33-year-old victim told police he left the car unlocked at 2:09 pm and returned 20 minutes later to find the bag gone.
Motorcycle removed
Someone stole a man’s motorcycle from in front of his girlfriend’s Clinton Avenue apartment on Sept. 9, cops said.
The 34-year-old motorhead told police that he parked and covered the 1978 Yamaha between DeKalb and Willoughby avenues at 11 pm, and when he came out at 7 the next morning the bike and cover were gone.
Parking lot larceny
A parking attendant gave the wrong person a man’s car from a lot on DeKalb Avenue on Sept. 9, according to police.
The 34-year-old owner of the 2004 Audi told cops he parked in the lot between Hudson Avenue and Ashland Place at 11:05 pm on Sept. 8.
The attendant gave the car to the wrong man at 1:40 am on Sept. 9, according to a police report. The owner did not notice until 11:15 am on Sept. 13, the report says.
Car swiped
Someone swiped another car that was parked on Saint Felix Street on Sept. 13, cops said.
The 30-year-old owner told police she parked her 2007 Nissan between Fulton Street and DeKalb Avenue at 1 am, and that when she returned at 1:30 that afternoon, it was gone.
— Matthew Perlman