Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

Fast and Felonious 7Apparently, the new iPhone is so tempting to thieves that you can’t even lay one down on a restaurant table without a mishap. Sometime between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Oct. 1, a 40-year-old man was eating lunch in a bar on First Avenue in the mid-60s when he noticed that the iPhone 7 he had put on the table was no longer there. He used the Find My iPhone tracking software and discovered that his celebrated cell was now residing in Queens. The stolen iPhone was valued at $1,047.

Take My Apartment Keys, Please!A woman was drinking at a bar on the Lower East Side at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, September 25, when she realized that she had been pickpocketed and her wallet was missing. The wallet contained both her driver’s license and her apartment keys. When she arrived home at 450 East 81st St. the next morning at 8 a.m., her apartment had been burglarized of several items, including a 42-inch TV, an Apple TV box, a speaker, sunglasses and a laptop.

Care ScareAnother week, another phone scam. On Sept. 26, a female resident of the Upper East Side received a phone call from someone claiming to represent an outfit called Windows Care. He said that something was wrong with her computer, but he could fix it if she would send $2,000 via iTunes gift cards. No sooner had she complied with that request when the same individual talked her into letting him share remote access of her computer, at which point he locked the machine and refused to unlock it until she sent another $2,000 in iTunes gift cards.

BANK ROBBER ARRESTED The police arrested a bad seed outside an Apple bank. Police said a 31-year-old man later identified as Garvin Clouden of the Bronx walked into the Apple bank at 812 Lexington Ave. at 3:10 p.m. on Sept. 30, and demanded money from a teller by passing notes written on two withdrawal slips. The teller did as told, giving Clouden more than $220 in cash – plus some bonus dye packs. Police officers were soon on scene and arrested Clouden, who was charged him with robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.

Bull RunThe lazy, crazy days of summer are clearly over: shoplifters are turning to stealing energy drinks! At 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 5, a man in his 40s walked into the CVS store at 1223 Second Ave. and made off with 87 cans of Red Bull and 8 cans of Monster energy drinks valued at $255.