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By Max Jaeger
Brooklyn Daily
68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Long con
Someone scammed an Ovington Avenue woman out of $10,000 over the last year, cops said.
A caller phoned the woman, who lives between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Bay Ridge, several times between Jan. 1 and Oct. 8, telling her she owed back taxes, police said.
The caller instructed her to buy a prepaid card to send him the money, which she did, according to a police report.
Purse purloined
A ne’re-do-well stole a woman’s purse after she left it unattended in the bathroom of an Eighth Avenue store on Oct. 12, law enforcement officials related.
The woman left her purse in the lavatory between 63rd and 64th streets in Dyker Heights at 3 pm and returned minutes later to find that someone had taken it, a report states.
Cat burglar on the prowl
A thief climbed through a window and stole $500 cash and a cellphone from a Ridge Boulevard home on Oct. 7, per cops.
The resident left the house between Wakeman Place and 67th Street in Bay Ridge at 5:40 am, and when he got home at 4:44 pm, he realized someone had scaled the fire escape, climbed through a window, and taken his stuff, police said.
Shocking discovery
A crook stole electricity and water meters from a house under construction on Fort Hamilton Parkway on Sept. 9, according to a police report.
The thief snuck into the basement of the unoccupied building between 97th Street and Marine Avenue in Bay Ridge at 10 am and made off with the meters, cops said.
— Max Jaeger