Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

Closet CaseThis sounds like a case for Hercule Poirot. On April 8, employees of the X O Group, located at 195 Broadway, placed a package in a storage closet after missing an outbound shipment from the office. The package contained jewelry worth about $50,000. The package was discovered AWOL a few days later. Seven or eight employees had access to the closet, and the closet lock had not been damaged in any way. The jewelry included Simon G earrings, a ring, a bangle and a necklace.

Chopper Coppers‘Tis the season when thieves’ hearts turn to – stealing motorcycles. In the first incident, on April 15, a woman parked her motorcycle in front of 214 Front Street. When she returned the following morning at 8 a.m., her 2012 Honda CBR 600 was missing. The bike, red with white rims, with New York plates 36SW92 is valued at $8,100.

In a second incident, the following day, a man parked his 2015 Yamaha R1 in front of 350 Albany St. in the early morning. When he returned that afternoon, the bike was gone. A man told him he had seen two men load the motorcycle into a green van. The late-model black and red bike is valued at $18,000.

Gear ShiftBurglars had a construction site in their sights over a recent weekend. On the afternoon of Friday, April 9, someone entered a construction site inside 52 Wooster St. being worked on by Foremost Contracting & Building of Brooklyn. The burglars broke through a locked gate in the back of the building, and took tools worth about $5,600. The break-in was not discovered until the following Monday. The stolen implements included three Bosch demo hammers, one SKILSAW circular saw, two Makita Dewalt circular saws, two Dewalt Sawzall with blades, a Wilkins RPZ, three Bosch grinders, a Bosch Bulldog hammer drill and a Stihl demo saw.

Sick & HeartlessA woman learned the hard way that a work locker is not a safe place to keep a large quantity of cash. Sometime between 3:30 and 5:45 p.m. on Friday, April 15, an unknown perpetrator got into the 31-year-old woman’s bag that she had placed in a locker at the Hale & Hearty location at 110 Maiden Lane. The thief removed $2,000 in cash from the bag.