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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
78th Precinct
Park Slope
Think fast
A thief swiped a laptop and other goods from a man’s parked car on Fifth Avenue on Oct. 11, but the amateur sleuth tracked down his belongings and got the computer back, a report states.
The victim left his computer in his 2009 Toyota Corolla overnight near the corner of Carroll Street, cops said. When he returned the next morning he found a robber had made off with his laptop, an iPad, a backpack, and the car’s license plates, according to law enforcement officials.
Taking the case into his own hands, the man used the Find my iPad app on his phone to locate the device and drove around the neighborhood until he came across a man in his 20s holding his Lenovo laptop, police said. When the man asked the bandit where he had gotten the computer, the guy chucked the laptop at him and dashed off, according to the authorities.
The computer survived the toss, didn’t get back any of his other property, worth about $600, police said.
No chump change
A rapscallion made off with a wad of cash after breaking the lock on a delivery-truck door in Park Slope on Oct. 9, police said.
The truck’s driver parked the vehicle on Fourth Avenue between President and Carroll streets at 1:10 pm, and in the 10 minutes he was away from the truck, the robber busted the driver’s-side door open and snagged $8,000 in cash.
A bad iDea
Police arrested a teen who they say lifted a bunch of old iPhones from a waste management business on President Street on Oct. 10.
The 19-year-old allegedly snuck in the front door of the business between Nevins Street and Third Avenue and stuffed five older-model iPhones and an iPod into his jacket pocket, then scrammed, cops said.
Notified of the theft, police canvassed the area and found the suspect near the corner of Fourth Avenue and President Street, where a search turned up the stolen goods, a report says.
The man pleaded his case with cops, allegedly telling them, “I thought they were old phones.”
Cops collared the man and charged him with burglary.
Macbook Go
A cold-hearted computer thief exploited a man’s goodwill to swipe a laptop from a Seventh Avenue store on Oct. 9, cops said.
An employee of a computer support store between President and Carroll streets went into the basement to find an item a customer said he was looking for, and when he came back upstairs, the scalawag had swiped the employee’s $2,000 Macbook Pro, a report said.
The victim reviewed store security footage that showed him doing the deed and fleeing up Seventh Avenue toward President Street, police said.
— Noah Hurowitz