Crime Watch
TouchedA burglar undertook some marketing of the criminal kind inside a marketing firm’s locked office. Sometime between about midnight on July 20 and 8:15 the following morning, someone entered the offices of Executive Touch Worldwide Inc. inside 40 Exchange Place nearly $20,000 worth of electronic equipment, including several laptops. Police said an adjoining office was under construction and walls had been removed, exposing an interior door leading into the office burglarized. When they came to work, employees saw visible pry marks on the office doors, which had been locked. Police could not find any fingerprints. The items stolen included sixty-two Samsung tablets, three MacBook Air laptops, two Asus laptops, an Xbox One, a PS4, an iPad 2, an HP laptop and an iPhone 6S Plus, making a total haul of $19,320.
Cellar OccasionAn intruder with a taste for the good stuff had much to celebrate. Sometime after 8 p.m. on July 19, an unknown perpetrator broke into a basement storage area belonging to Soho Wines & Spirits at 461 West Broadway and took high-end wines and liquor retailed at nearly $12,000. A male employee told police that numerous contractors had keys to access the building, but not the storage area. Indeed, the lock to the storage area had been broken, and a gate leading to the storage area was busted open. The spirits stolen included 10 cases of Veuve Clicquot champagne valued at $4,320, six cases of Mionetto wine priced at $768, 10 cases of Grey Goose vodka tagged at $2,187, two cases of Veuve Clicquot Rosé Champagne priced at $1,054, three bottles of La Grande Dame Champagne worth $396, three cases of Moët & Chandon vintage champagne valued at $738, three cases of Perrier Jouet champagne priced at $1,260, one case of Moët & Chandon rosé champagne tagged at $284, and two cases of Veuve Clicquot Viat champagne valued at $792, making a total take of $11,799.
A Little Too HandyOne Handy cleaning employee apparently took a little too much into her hands. On July 18, a 34-year-old woman living at 82 Beaver Street had a cleaner from the Handy cleaning service in her apartment from 10 a.m. to noon. Toward the end of the cleaning session, the woman asked her cleaner, identified by police only as Dionice P., to organize her wardrobe, where all her handbags were stored. When the cleaner left, the woman checked her wardrobe and noticed that two bags were missing. She told police that the cleaner had left carrying a large suitcase of cleaning supplies. The items stolen were a black Chanel Boy Bag valued at $5,748 and an orange Prada Limited Edition tagged at $1,700.
Distilled DisturbedA security camera inside the Distilled New York public house at 211 West Broadway captured video of a woman entering the location through an open rear door left unlocked for delivery person for a few minutes around 11 p.m. July 22, after the business had been closed for the day. The woman can be seen in the video removing property from the hostess station and then leaving through the same unlocked rear door. There were no signs of forced entry, nor did the alarm sound. The items stolen were an Amazon Kindle Fire valued at $150 and two iPad Minis worth $500.
You Throw Something, John DoePolice arrested a homeless teenager after he attacked a sidewalk vendor. A woman selling items at a table on the southwest corner of Sullivan and West Houston Streets told a police officer that a 16-year-old male approached her at 6:35 p.m. on Sunday, July 24, cursing and yelling at her. The teen then grabbed a cosmetic necklace from the vending table and threw it at the woman, striking her on the right eye, causing slight swelling. The woman complained of pain but refused medical attention at the scene. The homeless man, a John Doe, was arrested July 24 and charged with assault.