Crime Watch

Taken and AwakenedA 23-year-old woman who slept through her stop while riding on a southbound 1 train and again snoozed on a northbound 1 early on Sunday, April 24, woke at the Rector Street stop to discover her purse had been opened and several items, including her cellphone and cash, were missing. The stolen included an iPhone 6 valued at $600, $60 in cash, a multicolored pink wallet, a variety of debit and credit cards, a driver’s license, and a monthly MetroCard. Several charges on her credit cards had been debited before she was able to cancel them.

Tart StartOn the morning of April 18, a 25-year-old female employee of a bakeshop at 135 Sullivan St. was bringing several items down to the basement. The shop was closed at that hour, but the front door was open for employees. When she returned upstairs, she saw an unknown woman in the store. The woman left, but employee later found that her wallet had been stolen. She lost $500 in cash, a gift card valued at $200, a wallet worth $30 and several documents.

The Theft of GabTwo young cellphone thieves were caught after lifting a woman’s cellphone from her purse. At 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, a 47-year-old woman was about to board a southbound 4 train at the Bowling Green station when a 16-year-old boy engaged her in conversation. While he talked, she observed a 15-year-old boy in the reflection of the train removing her cell phone from her bag. She asked the 15-year-old to return her phone, at which time the older boy fled. The 15-year-old told her that his companion had her phone. The woman got on the train and exited at Borough Hall, when she alerted a police officer who managed to collar the thieves, recovering her cellphone from the 16-year-old and a knife from the 15-year-old. The two boys were charged with grand larceny.

Shopper’s RemorseAt 2:40 p.m. on April 18, a 39-year-old woman from Weehawken placed a brown wristlet in the upper rack of her shopping cart inside the Whole Foods store at 270 Greenwich St. When she got to the checkout, she noticed that the wristlet was gone. She told police that she had been browsing the entire store and had no idea when her property was taken. The items stolen included a Samsung Note 3 cell phone valued at $500, $350 in cash, a brown Coach wristlet tagged at $199, various ATM and credit cards, a New Jersey driver’s license, and a Weehawken library card.

Bag DragA moment of absentmindedness led to the absence of a woman’s bag. At 5:40 p.m. on Thursday April 21, a 25-year-old woman was sitting on a bench on the northbound platform of the Canal Street station waiting for the A train. When the train arrived, she got on carrying a number of bags, but not until the train had pulled into the West 4th Street station did she realize that she had left her valuable Chanel bag back on the bench at Canal Street. She returned to that location and of course found her bag and its contents missing. She canceled her credit cards before any unauthorized charges showed up. The items stolen included a Chanel bag valued at $958, makeup priced at $200, a weekly MetroCard worth $32, a passport, and various credit, debit, and insurance cards. In total she was out $1,190.