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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
78th Precinct
Park Slope
Inside job
Cops arrested an employee of an Atlantic Avenue grocery store employee on Oct. 14 for allegedly stealing from a coin machine.
The 22-year-old staffer at the store between Fort Greene Place and S. Portland Avenue had been skimming money from the machine for months and bagged $3,300 in all, police said.
The guy’s boss said he caught him red-handed and turned him over to cops, who charged him with grand larceny.
Window of opportunity
A burglar broke into a Carroll Street apartment on Oct. 16 and bagged a bundle of loot, officers reported.
The two roommates said they left the pad between Fifth and Sixth avenues at 3:30 pm and a window accessible by the building’s fire escape refused to lock. The faulty lock was known to two former roommates, who were evicted in August for stealing stuff from their pals, according to a report.
When the victims returned at 11 pm, they found their stuff gone, including a load of camera equipment, a laptop, an XBox 360, more than 20 snapback baseball caps, and more than 15 pairs of sneakers, one of them a brand-new pair of Air Jordan 11s, law enforcement officials recounted. The haul was worth $1,850 in all, per police.
Easy pickins
A pickpocket stole from a woman at the Department of Motor Vehicles office on Atlantic Avenue on Oct. 15, police said.
The 54-year-old woman was waiting at the office between Fort Greene Place and S. Portland Avenue when she felt two strangers brush against her, cops said.
When she checked her pocketbook later she found the bandit had snatched her wallet, which contained a check for $145, $200 in cash, her driver’s license, and her bank card, according to a report.
Gone in 18 hours
A Nicolas Cage wannabe snatched a 2006 Ford sedan from its parking spot on Carlton Avenue sometime overnight on Oct. 11, officers said.
The car’s owner left his ride, which he valued at $12,000, between Dean and Pacific streets at 3 pm, and when he returned at 9 the next morning the car had vanished, cops said.
There were no outstanding traffic summonses against the vehicle, and it had not been towed, according to a report.
MacTook
A thief broke into a home on Bergen Street on Oct. 17 and absconded with a pair of computers, cops said.
Sometime between 9 am and 6:30 pm, the prowler pried his way into the apartment between Flatbush and Fifth avenues, police stated. The crook damaged the door and swiped a Macbook and a Macbook Pro, worth $2,000 and $1,800 respectively, according to the authorities.
Walk in the park
A stroll in Prospect Park turned into a major headache when a robber swiped a woman’s bag on Oct. 19, cops said.
The victim left her in the green space at 11 am, and when she returned five minutes later, she found that a sticky-fingered so-and-so had nabbed the bag, with a United States passport, cellphone, and $700 in cash inside, according to the NYPD.
— Noah Hurowitz