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April 3 - April 16, 2013
New Top Cop at First designer duffles Bagged
Six shoplifters conducted a grab and go operation at a Louis Vuitton store in Soho that cost the boutique $6,210 in merchandise plus repairs. An employee told police that four young men entered the 116 Greene St. location at 3:15 on Sat., March 30. The men caused a distraction while a fifth entered and grabbed three Louis Vuitton duffle bags. Three of the men blocked security from getting to the thief, and escorted him to the front door. When security locked the front door, the two men on the outside broke the door open to allow their cronies to escape. All six fled northbound on Greene St.
Cards CHarged up
Two victims who lost their wallets in the Financial District ended up with heavy credit card tabs thanks to unauthorized spending sprees. One woman, 24, reported that she was having drinks with friends at the Ulysses Folk House bar at 95 Pearl St. on Thursday night when her purse was taken. She had left it on a hook under the bar near where she was sitting on March 28, from 7:30-7:45 p.m. During that time, someone took her purse which contained her $200 Michael Kors wallet and several bank cards. The
abductor was a fast spender. In the two and a half hours between the time of its theft and her report to the police at 10:18 p.m., the thief had reportedly charged four of the cards for a total of $2,378. Another woman did recover her stolen handbag, but the damage had already been done. The 28-year-old was an employee of Ryan Maguire’s Restaurant and Bar who said she left her purse on an unattended coat rack at the 28 Cliff St. location at 5 p.m. Fri., March 22. While she was working, she said someone had removed the bag from the rack. Her manager found her bag the next morning in the bar’s adjoining parking lot. Three credit cards had been removed from the purse, and she later discovered that one had been charged for $139.60 at 40 Exchange Pl. and another had been charged at various locations for a total of $370.37. She cancelled all of the stolen cards.
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A bicyclist made off with a pedestrian’s cell phone as she walked through Hudson Square. A 19-year-old woman reported to police that her iPhone was snatched out of her hand at the intersection of Varick and Charlton Sts. on Mon., March 25 at 8:10 p.m. She said she held the phone close to her body in both hands as she walked and listened to music through her headphones. She thief walked toward her with his bike next to him and passed her. He then doubled back and got on his bike and Mexican Grill rode toward her from behind, snatching her $400 white iPhone 5 from her hand and riding away northbound on Varick St. She described the snatcher as about 20 years old with dark hair and eyes, 6’1”, wearing jogging clothes and a gray cap. The phone’s tracking app 11 Park Place, NYC was unable to activate because 646-448-4207 T: 646-410-0591 the phone had been turned off.
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A new commanding officer has taken over the N.Y.P.D.’s First Precinct, whose headquarters are in Tribeca. Captain Brendan Timoney introduced himself to the community at Community Board 1’s full board meeting on March 27, two weeks after his first day at the precinct on Tues., March 12. Timoney is taking over from Captain Edward Winski, a veteran of almost 20 years on the police force who had been the First Precinct’s commanding officer since May 2010. Winski was rotated to the Midtown Manhattan South district. Timoney had previously served as executive officer of Manhattan’s Ninth Precinct for just under two years, which covers East Houston to East 14th St. and from Broadway to the East River. A 15-year veteran of the police force, he is also the nephew of former First Deputy Commissioner John Timoney who left the N.Y.P.D. in 1996, and went on to head police departments in Philadelphia and Miami. At the Community Board 1 meeting last week, Captain Timoney said he joined the New York police force in 1998 in the 52nd Precinct in the Fordham section of the
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A young woman’s overly familiar conduct was explained when her target noticed that his belongings were nicked. The victim, 24, said he had been drinking with a friend and spending time with a woman before the incident, which occurred on the street corner of Hudson and Spring Sts. between 3:30 and 5:30 a.m. on Thurs., March 28. He told police that an unknown woman, about 5’4” with dark hair was rubbing his chest and feeling his front left pocket. Presumably she was more interested in his bank account than in him, because immediately after she left he noticed that his credit card, MetroCard, Australian driver’s license and $95 in cash were missing from his pockets. He was later notified by his bank that his credit card had been maxed out. Police reported that $95 in cash was
Bronx and stayed there for about five years. In 2003, he was promoted to sergeant and ended up in the Midtown North Precinct in Manhattan, where he said he worked with “quality of life conditions, peddler conditions, and dealt with the narcotics units.” Timoney was then promoted to lieutenant in 2008 and served as the administrative lieutenant in the 43rd Precinct, in the Parkchester and Soundview sections of the Bronx, before moving to the Ninth Precinct in 2011 with a promotion to the rank of captain. Now he is settling into his role as commanding officer of the First Precinct, which consists of a single square mile but covers a district rich in residential, commercial and tourist attractions in Tribeca, the Financial District, Battery Park City, the Seaport and Soho. It has some of the lower crime statistics in the city, with a crime rate that had dropped by over 50 percent between 2001 and 2012. In the first two months of 2013, the overall crime statistics in the First Precinct rose by about five percent compared to the same time last year.
recovered, but no arrests were reported and the other property was not mentioned.
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It’s a classic case: She knows she put her wallet in her backpack, but doesn’t know where it went. A woman told police that she was sure she had put her wallet in the small pocket of her bookbag and zipped it closed while she was walking near South Street Seaport on Wed., March 27 at 6:45 p.m. After about two blocks, on the corner of John and Water Sts., she realized that the zipper was open and her pocketbook was missing. A police canvass for video was negative. She cancelled her credit cards with no unauthorized usage, but lost $250 in cash and her Colombian ID and driver’s license.
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