Crime Watch

BY JERRY DANZIG

Bloom and DoomTwo more stories suggest that Bloomingdale’s might have some of the best loss prevention personnel in the business. On Oct. 8, a man in his late 30s walked out of the store carrying a Moncler jacket valued at $1,985. Store personnel detained him, and police soon arrived to arrest and charge him with grand larceny.

On Oct. 12, a loss prevention officer at the store saw a man in his 20s carrying numerous items of merchandise into a fitting room. When the man left the fitting room, the only item he was carrying was a large black pack, and the loss prevention officer found no merchandise inside the fitting room. Store personnel stopped the thief outside the store and discovered that his pack was filled with the missing goods worth $3,760. The shoplifter was arrested and charged with grand larceny.

Dumb Phone OwnerIf only some smartphone owners were as smart as their devices. On Oct. 11, a man in the Starbucks at 1077 Third Ave. he left his iPhone 6s on the table unattended while he went to use the restroom. The phone was missing when he returned? No value was given for the iPhone.

SUV= Surprise Unsuspecting Victims?We have heard of bicyclists snatching cell phones, but SUV drivers? At 4:45 p.m. on Oct. 8, a 77-year-old man was walking northbound on the east side of Park Avenue. While he was looking at his phone as he was about to cross 75th Street, a small white SUV passed in front of him, and the driver attempted to snatch the elderly man’s phone before making a right and speeding northbound on Park Avenue. Unfortunately, the pedestrian did not catch the license number of the SUV.

Jacked JackThieves can make off with even heavy construction tools in the blink of an eye. On Oct. 12, a man working for an infrastructure company had his truck parked outside 1467 Third Ave. He was finishing a project and loading equipment into his truck. While he made more one more run to clean up the construction site, he left the truck’s tailgate partially open. When he returned, he discovered that someone had removed a Wacker Neuson BS 60-2i jumping jack worth $4,000 from the rear of the truck.