Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

Zoom and GloomIt’s fun to zoom off on a motorbike; it’s not so much fun when a thief zooms off on your bike. At 8 p.m. on July 1, a 36-year-old man parked his was a red 2014 Honda ZZZ opposite 245 Broadway. The Honda was gone when he returned at 3:15 the following morning, A search of the neighborhood turned up nothing, but a surveillance camera caught the motorcycle heading outbound on the Washington Bridge at 2:40 a.m. The owner told police he was not the one driving. He also suggested that the thief might have been a known stalker whom he had seen near the parking spot at the time of the incident. The motorbike is valued at $14,000.

Shades for HadesThieves are targeting sunglasses. At just before noon on June 30, someone entered the Ilori store at 138 Spring St. and took nearly $4,000 of sunglasses and frames from display shelves before leaving the store. The stolen merchandise included six Prada prescription frames valued at $1,805, six Prada sunglasses priced at $1,920, and three Ray-Ban sunglasses of no stated value.

Duisburg DON’T’sPut a bag on the floor, and it could scoot out the door! At 3 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, a visitor from Duisburg, Germany, placed her backpack on the floor in the Starbucks at 233 Broadway while talking on the phone. When she finished her conversation about five minutes later, her bag was missing. She had not seen anybody make off with the pack. The items stolen included a Canon camera valued at $668, $100 in US cash, €557, several visa cards, the backpack valued at $112, a German ID, MCM sunglasses valued at $1,069, and an Explorer card valued at $334, making a total stolen of $2,839.

Below the BeltsAdd belts to the list of portable and high-value items attractive to thieves. At 4 p.m. Monday, June 27, a man entered the Versace store at 160 Mercer Street, grabbed a number of belts, put them inside a paper bag, and left the store without paying for the merchandise. The stolen belts included a black-and-gold Palazzo valued at $525, a red oval belt tagged at $495, another blue oval belt priced at $495, and a Medusa snake belt valued at $795, for a total haul of $2,310.

Drunken in Dunkin’Apparently, caffeine was administered too late to save a man from thieves. At 5 a.m. on Tuesday, June 20, a 27-year-old man fell asleep intoxicated at a table in the Dunkin’ Donuts at 100 Chambers St. When he woke up, he discovered that an unknown person had taken his laptop from in front of him, along with his Apple watch. A tracking program on the computer showed it heading westbound on Chambers Street before the connection cut off. The items stolen included a silver 13-inch MacBook Air valued at $1,649, and a black 42-mm Apple watch priced at $1,099.