Crime Watch

Cleaned outA West 99th Street resident reported that her diamond necklace disappeared on Dec. 8, the same day she had her carpets cleaned by an outside company, police said. The woman told police that she put her Lauren B diamond necklace valued, at $11,500, on her bedroom dresser the day prior. She noticed that the necklace was no longer where she had placed the evening the contractors had come to clean.

Silver Where?Sometime between Aug. 29 and Nov. 22, $10,000 worth of silverware was taken from the apartment of West 110th Street resident. The woman told police that during that period she had had two jobs performed in her apartment, including having the floors done between September 30 and October 6. She told police she had three sets of keys -- one for herself, one for her husband, and one for the building doorman, to be used by the super, painters, floor workers, a nanny, and a cleaning lady. Thirty-one pieces of Cartier silverware were stolen, including large forks, cocktail forks, a large knife, dessert spoons, and soup spoons, all engraved with the initials SNP.

School’s OutMembers of the Democratic Party weren’t the only ones getting their e-mails hacked in recent weeks. At 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 29, a female employee of PS 163 Alfred E. Smith School at 163 West 97th St. received an e-mail from a coworker with instructions to send a wire transfer to one Helen Guerrero in Minneapolis. The employee was later informed that her e-mail had been hacked and the school was out $7,850.

Mail PoxPolice alert the public that thieves have been removing and intercepting checks placed in mailboxes in the West 105th Street area. Area residents are advised to bring checks to be mailed to a local post office or drop them in mailboxes before the day’s last pickup. At 11:35 p.m. on Nov. 27, an 85-year-old man placed five checks totaling $3,200 in the mailbox at 105th Street and Manhattan Avenue. He was later notified by his bank that the checks had been cashed by an unknown person. The super of a building on the street captured video of a man removing letters from the mailbox a few hours after the 84-year-old had mailed them. It was unknown where the checks were cashed.

Added and SubtractedValuable artwork went missing in an unusual theft. At 4:33 p.m. on Dec. 7, a 33-year-old man dropped off a package containing African art valued at about $3,000 at the UPS store located at 2753 Broadway. About 10 minutes later an unknown perpetrator called the UPS store to ask where the package was being sent. The caller said he needed to add something to the package and came to the store shortly after. A store employee gave the package to the caller, who left for a few minutes before returning with the package. The following day the recipient of the package notified the 33-year-old sender that the contents were missing. The value of the stolen art amounted to $3,000.