Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

Hair Salon RobberyA simulated firearm worked as well as a real one for a store robber. At 8 p.m. on Monday, September 4, a perpetrator entered the Blondi’s Hair Salon at 2742 Broadway, placed a black duffel bag on the desk, and simulated a firearm, police said. He then said, “You know what’s happening here. I have a gun.” The perpetrator was last seen running eastbound on West 105th Street. Police searched the area but couldn’t find the robber. The man got away with $970.

Cellphone SnatchA bad guy added injury to insult after he stole a man’s cellphone. At 4:55 a.m. on Sunday, September 10, a 30-year-old man was walking eastbound on West 88th Street to a 7-Eleven store with his phone in his right hand when he was punched several times from behind and had his phone stolen, police said. The perpetrator also had a small knife. The victim was cut on his right hand and on his left shoulder and had other minor injuries. The perpetrator fled on 88th Street toward Amsterdam Avenue.

Father arrested on assault charges At noon on Tuesday, September 5, the 43-year-old father of a 26-year-old woman living West 107th Street took cash out of her purse and later withdrew money using her ATM card without her permission. She told police that her father punched her in the face when she asked her father about his actions. She told police it wasn’t the first time he had assaulted her. Jose Santana was arrested on September 13 and charged with felony assault, criminal mischief and trespass, dangerous drugs and weapons, harassment and other charges.

Another Check Altered in the MailConsider this a reminder why you should use permanent ink when you write a check you are dropping in the mail. At about noon Tuesday, August 29, a 50-year-old Central Park West man was checking his account balance inside the TD bank when he discovered that half his account balance had disappeared. He looked up the last 30 days of account activity and learned that the $150 check he had written out to a cable company and dropped off in a mailbox on the northwest corner of West 110th Street and Central Park West the day before had been intercepted and rewritten in the amount of $12,980.