unsafe in the slope

Yeah, it is the 78th. Even though the 72nd is physically closer to those of us in the South Slope.

Here's the Park Slope Courier's Blotter:

http://www.parkslopecourier.com/site/tab7.cfm?newsid=18064818&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=552912&rfi=6

03/10/2007
POLICE BLOTTER
By Tom Tracy

Thieves broke into the Grand Army Plaza Newsstand last week, taking upwards of $2,000 in receipts.

Workers said that they closed the store, located at 400 Flatbush Avenue, at about 6 p.m. on February 26.

When they opened for business at 6 a.m. the following morning, they discovered that someone had clipped the locks to the security gate protecting the door.

Thieves found the receipts in an unlocked box behind the counter, employees told responding officers.

Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.

Calls can be made to the 78th Precinct at (718) 636-6411. All calls will be kept confidential.

Senior shove

A 63-year-old man contacted police last week claiming that he wanted to press charges against a man that started a chain of events that led to his hospitalization.

The victim told police on March 2 that a 5’10”, 145-pound man he knows shoved him inside his home on the 300 block of Garfield back on January 13.

The victim claimed that he fell down onto a hard object and was injured so badly that he was taken to New York Methodist Hospital for treatment.

The senior said that he alerted police to the attack as soon as he was released from the hospital.

As of this writing, cops were seeking to question the would-be attacker.

Who’s blue now?

Workers at a local T-Mobile store told police last week that they were victimized by a group of thieves who raided the premises of 20 Bluetooth headsets.

Officials said that three unidentified males entered the store, located at 458 5th Avenue at about 2 p.m. on March 2.

Working together, the three males scooped up the headsets and ran off.

The entire incident took place right in front of the unsuspecting workers, who reportedly had to be told by another customer that thieves were removing items from the displays.

The stolen headsets were valued at $75, officials said.

Landlord looter

A 33-year-old woman went to police last week wanting to tip them off to the shenanigans of an area landlord who allegedly rented an apartment to her and took her security deposit, but never gave her the keys.

The woman, a resident of Woodhull Street, told police that she was out $3,400 after the fiasco that started on January 22 and was still continuing.

Seeking an apartment on the 400 block of Douglass Street, the woman entered a preliminary five- month lease with the unidentified landlord, she said.

The landlord allegedly deposited her check, but never handed over the keys.

She also never returned calls from the victim wondering when she could move in.

As of this writing, cops were investigating the woman’s claims.

Cleaned out

Workers for a Park Slope maid service told police last week that someone broke into their business, removing $900 from a filing cabinet.

Officials said that someone entered the offices of Miracle Maids Maintenance, located on the 100 block of 8th Street, sometime between 9 p.m. on February 25 and 7 a.m. the following morning.

The thief, cops were told, may have used a key to get inside.

After circumventing the locks, thieves raided a filing cabinet for the cash, officials said.

Frontal assault

A group of thieves are being sought for forcing the door to an area business last week.

Employees at Cole Partners, 242 Nevins Street, told police that someone damaged the front lock to the business as they entered sometime after 5:30 p.m. on March 1.

Workers told police that they showed up for their shift at 8 a.m. the following day to find the busted door, as well as a set of burglars tools left on top of a box in the back office.

Police were told that a Dell laptop computer, a LCD television, digital camera and Dewalt laser level were removed from the business.

No fare

Cops are looking for a group of sticky-fingered fare beaters who reportedly lifted a woman’s wallet and then used her credit cards to make multiple MetroCard purchases.

The victim, a 24-year-old woman from the 690 block of Sackett Street, told police that she suddenly discovered that her wallet had been removed from her shoulder bag at 3:30 p.m. on February 16.

The woman immediately checked her credit card accounts online to discover that someone had been using them to make “numerous” MetroCard purchases.

The victim said that she immediately cancelled her cards and reported the theft to police on February 26.

Sugar high

Thousands of dollars in phone cards and Lotto scratch-off tickets were removed from the 7th Avenue Candy and Grocery last week, police were told.

Workers at the store, located at 168 7th Avenue, told police that they locked up for the night at 11:30 p.m. on February 21.

When they opened the store at 7 a.m. the next morning, they realized that someone had removed the locks to the roll-down security gate.

Thieves removed $20 in cash, as well as $2,600 in phone cards and scratch-off tickets they found behind the counter.

Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.

Calls can be made to the 78th Precinct at (718) 636-6411. All calls will be kept confidential.

Wipe out graffiti

As the ongoing war against graffiti continues, a $500 reward is being offered to anyone with information about graffiti vandals in their neighborhoods.

The hefty reward is part of the city’s new push to rid New York of graffiti vandals.

Graffiti is one of the leading quality of life complaints brought to police.

Anyone with information about graffiti vandalism is urged to contact either 311 or 911.

Cell phone hangup

An area student told police that thugs robbed him of his cell phone as he left the School of Global Studies Thursday.

The victim, 16, told police that he got into a fight with some classmates at the corner of Court and Baltic Streets after leaving school at 3:30 p.m. on March 1.

The fight came to a quick end, but the thieves followed him for several blocks, jumping him again at the corner of Court Street and 4th Place.

One of the thieves, described as a 5’11” black male wearing a grey hooded jacket and a black skull cap, punched the victim in the face and took the $110 cell phone from his hands.

The victim was not seriously injured, police were told.

Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.

Calls can be made to the 76th Precinct at (718) 834-3211. All calls will be kept confidential.

Not so sweet charity

A woman “unintentionally” donated over $2,000 worth of pricey clothes when she accidentally left her suitcase on the stairs of her Van Dyke Street home last week.

The woman told cops from the 76th Precinct that she had forgotten to collect her suitcase at 2:20 p.m. on March 4 when someone collected it for her.

Video surveillance of the front of the woman’s home shows that a 5’5” Hispanic male scooping up the luggage and walking off with it.

The same man was later seen dumping the contents of the suitcase into a metal bin at a nearby corner – believed to be one of the yellow clothing collection cans that can be found throughout the community.

The woman told police that she didn’t want to press charges against the person who took her suitcase, but she needed a police report if she ever wanted to retrieve the $350 pair of boots, $1500 designer suit and $280 blouse that she anonymously bequeathed to a charitable cause.

Wow, this nabe sure is getting sketchy. We should all move out pronto before it's too late!

all this happened within how long?

Wait, what is happening to Park Slope?? Wallets get stolen? Newstands get robbed?? There's graffiti?!?

God, this is almost like living in New York City! I'm outta here, before it gets any worse...

I'm moving to Crown Heights. It'll be much safer there.

How can you feel violent with that cute lil kitten's face to look at? I kind of wanna nibble its ears (in a nonviolent way).

Flexichick wrote: [quote=jennitrixie]How can you feel violent with that cute lil kitten's face to look at? I kind of wanna nibble its ears (in a nonviolent way).

He is quite the charmer - even though he's grown into those ears a bit

Flexi, I like a good feline pic any day (my computer browser's history will attest to that ) but dare I say I miss the old bendy-pics you once treated us to... whadda ya say we get a new shot of the old bendy flexichick that we all have come to love

Take their photo and turn them in. I hear you get a reward.

I scolded some kids once on the street for blantantly littering near a trash can.

I've lived in the Slope since' 95 and have never been robbed or mugged. BUT, if you read the crime report from the free local weekly Park Slope newspapers, it'll scare the shit out of you. Reads like a crime plagued ghetto! Also good for a laugh now and again.