Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

In Fragrante DelictoOne shoplifter had a nose for fine fragrances recently. At 8:30 p.m. on May 13, a man took $1,320 bottles of fragrance from the shelf in the Sephora store at 555 Broadway and placed them inside his jacket and left the store. Police could not locate the thief or the missing merchandise. The items stolen were two Tom Ford Portofino fragrances valued at $440, two Tom Ford Amalfi fragrances also priced at $440, and two Tom Ford Azure fragrances costing $440 as well, for a total of $1,320.

In the Pocket – and OutNow that people are unbundling after winter, pickpockets are having a field day. At 3:30 p.m. on May 9, someone took a 56-year-old Staten Island man’s wallet from the back left pocket of his jeans at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. The thief later used the victim’s credit cards, but the amount of the charges was not stated.

The following evening, a perpetrator removed swiped a wallet from the jacket pocket of a 52-year-old Queens woman in the N/R line subway station at Bridge and Whitehall Streets. The victim told police that she had taken her wallet out of her purse and removed the transit check card. She then placed her wallet in her jacket pocket before purchasing a MetroCard from a vending machine. She next swiped her MetroCard in the turnstile and went down to the southbound platform, when she noticed that her wallet was missing. She said she had felt a bump while she was entering the turnstile. She went back and checked the area around the turnstile but could not find her wallet. The items stolen included three transit checks valued at $200, two MetroCards worth $30, plus the wallet.

handbags baggedAnother shoplifter bagged two pricey handbags from an area boutique on the afternoon of May 10. Police said a man entered the Marc Jacobs store on Mercer Street and took two handbags, one in mink, the other in black, totaling $1,100.