Police Blotter: Man Sticks Up Warehouse at Gunpoint

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

It' a Stick Up!

A man entered a warehouse on Douglass Street posed as a UPS driver and then robbed the place at gunpoint on March 2. 

Once inside the warehouse between Third and Fourth avenues, the suspect, a black male standing about 5-foot-7 and weighing 170 pounds, whipped out a black handgun and stated, “Keep your heads down!”

He then grabbed $3,000 in cash, three credit cards, and two Louis Vuitton wallets. After the heist he fled northbound on Fourth Avenue.

Open Window, Open Invitation

A climbing crook made his way up a fire escape and hopped through an open window on Degraw Street and made off with a couple of computers on March 1.

The victim told police that she usually leaves her apartment window open between Fourth and Fifth avenues, but keeps the screen in the frame. She left her apartment from 7:15 and 9 p.m., but by the time she got back, the window screen was on the floor and her MacBook Pro, Dell laptop and two watches were gone.

Sword and the Thief 

A burglar entered a first floor apartment through a front window on President Street and made off with electronics, military awards and a military saber on March 1. 

The victim, a 31-year-old man, said that he left his home between Nevins Street and Third Avenue at 7 a.m. and returned at around 8:30 p.m. to find that someone swiped his PlayStation 3, a Blue Ray DVD player, a Bose speaker sound system, a military officer saber and military awards. The victim told police that his window was closed, but not locked.

A Rift at Rivet

A crafty crook broke into a clothing boutique on Seventh Avenue with a screwdriver and made off with thousands of dollars worth of designer jeans, blazers and bags on March 1.

A getaway car waited in front of Rivet, between President and Union streets, for the burglar to emerge at around 6 a.m., who was wearing all tan: slacks, loafers, jacket and a hat. Neighbors called the police immediately after they saw a man at the front door, but the crook still had time to jack $2,256 worth designer jeans, three blazers worth $777 and two bags worth $510. The driver and crook drove a black four-door sedan northbound on Seventh Avenue.

A Crash Course in Joy Riding

A crook jacked a white sedan parked on Park Place sometime after 9 a.m. on Feb. 22, took it for a ride and dumped it.

The owner said she parked her white 1994 two-door Mazda sedan between Fifth and Sixth avenues, but when she went to get her car a couple days later, it was gone. Upon further investigation, police found the vehicle on Broadway and Hull streets, where it had been in an accident.

Bar Stool Purse Snatching 

A sneaky thief snatched a woman’s purse from the back of her chair at a bar on Fifth Avenue on Feb. 19.

The victim told police that she was at Jackie’s Fifth Amendment Bar at the corner of Seventh Avenue, when she put her purse on the back of her chair at around 4:30 p.m. When she was ready to leave around 11 p.m., she realized her bag was gone along with five credit cards, a debit card, a gift card and a pair of eyeglasses.