Police Blotter: Burglar Steals $13,000 in Jewelry and Electronics from St. Marks Place Home

The following information was supplied by the 78th Precinct of the NYPD. It does not indicate a conviction.  

The $13K Jewelry Burglary  

A burglar broke a St. Marks Place apartment door open and looted the home for almost $13,000 in electronics and jewelry sometime between May 5 and 6.  

The two victims, both 28-year-old roommates, told police that they left their apartment, between Fourth and Fifth avenues, May 5 at 1 p.m. and didn’t return until May 6 at midnight. When they got back to their apartment, they found that someone had forced open the front door and looted their living room and bedroom. The crook, who left the front door wide open after the burglary, got away with a MacBook Pro laptop; a $1,000 watch; $3,000 in assorted jewelry; $2,000 cameo pin; five pairs of pearl earrings totaling $5,000 and a Marc Jacobs watch. A camera outside of a deli on the corner of Fourth Avenue and St. Marks may have caught the crook fleeing the scene. 

Rims Removed  

A quick-handed crook stole four rims and four tires off a high-end car parked on Lincoln Place sometime between May 7 and 8.  

The victim, a woman from South Carolina, told police that she parked her Infiniti between Seventh and Eighth avenues on May 7 at 7:30 p.m. When she returned to get her blue four-door sedan, she found that someone had removed all four rims and tires off her car. The crook got away with four 19-inch alloy rims and four Michelin tires, worth a total of $6,000.