Crime Watch

Strada NadaDucati seems to be the number 1 motorcycle marque on thieves’ hit list this summer. At 9:30 a.m. on July 11, a 41-year-old man parked his white 2015 Ducati Multistrada at the northeast corner of Vandam Street and Sixth Avenue. Whe he returned at 5 p.m., his Italian stallion was no longer there. A search of the neighborhood turned up nothing. The Ducati is valued at $24,000.

Confronted and CondemnedA purse thief got caught in the act. At 12:30 p.m. on July 14, a 37-year-old woman put her bag on the back of her chair in the El Vez Mexican restaurant at 259 Vesey Street. A woman sitting across from the bag owner saw a man put his jacket over the woman’s bag and lift it off the chair. Both women confronted the thief as he was attempting to leave the restaurant. They were able to retrieve the bag. The man, subsequently identified as Mauricio Dominquez, 64, was arrested and charged with grand larceny.

Gone SouthUnfortunately, it may be pushing your luck to keep a bike parked and unattended on a New York street for several days. At 2:50 p.m. on July 13, a 25-year-old Brooklyn man parked his Meco bike at a rack at the Staten Island ferry terminal in front of 4 South Street. He next checked on his bike when he was aboard the ferry at 2:42 p.m. on July 15. Then when he came to pick up the bike early the next morning, it was gone. The bicycle is valued at $1,250.

She Felt the PainThieves removed a portion of scaffolding to steal a locked bicycle, police said. At 7 a.m. on July 14, a 59-year-old woman secured her Felt bike with a lock to scaffolding opposite 3 Spruce Street. When she returned at 5 p.m. on July 15, the bike and lock were missing, and a scaffolding bar had been removed as well. A search of the area proved fruitless. The stolen road bicycle is valued at $1,300.

Sword PreyAn office burglar could not resist removing a decorative sword as well as three computers. Sometime between 4 p.m. on July 10 and the following morning at 8 a.m., while the business was closed, someone entered the offices of Cromex Inc. at 40 Exchange Place and took two Hewlett-Packard laptops, a Toshiba Satellite laptop and a decorative Katana sword. The thief apparently entered through an unlocked window from the fire escape. The business subsequently canceled a stolen paycheck. The business put a value of $1,600 on the items.