A 65-year-old woman got on the M15 bus at First Avenue and 25th St. during the afternoon of Wednesday, May 1. Her purse was closed when she got on. The bus was packed, and she stood the whole ride. When she exited the bus on E. 68th St., she went to get something out of her purse and noticed it was open. The contents, including her credit and debit cards, had been removed. The victim canceled all the cards but discovered that her Visa Card had been used in Brooklyn to purchase two $113 MetroCards.

At 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 30, a 63-year-old woman parked her white 2008 BMW convertible on the northeast corner of Madison and 79th St. When she returned to the vehicle an hour later, she found that her car been hit, causing damage to the car’s left side and the left side bumper. The woman was told by a security guard that two women had witnessed a blue truck with white lettering hit her vehicle, but they didn’t get the plate number, and the truck took off in an unknown direction.

A few minutes later on that same Sunday afternoon, a 30-year-old man was involved in a vehicle accident on E. 63rd St. with an unknown man driving a vehicle with Pennsylvania plates. The victim exited his vehicle to speak with the other man, at which time the other man exchanged words before punching the victim multiple times in the right chest area and then in the right eye with his closed fist. The second man then grabbed the victim’s blue Nokia cell phone from his hand and fled with the phone in his vehicle. The victim reported that the perpetrator never exchanged information for the vehicle accident. The victim was transported to New York hospital to treat his injury after the assault. The perpetrator, a 26-year-old man, was arrested on April 30.

A member of the security staff at a Madison Avenue department store reported on Saturday, April 27, that he had stopped a man using a forged credit card to make a purchase of $505. Six credit cards were recovered from the man, all forged with his name on the front of the cards. When the cards were run through the computer, the account numbers indicated a different bank than the one indicated on each card. The defendant, a 28-year-old man, was arrested on April 27.

Around noon on Wednesday, April 17, a 76-year-old woman left her wallet in her jacket at her seat in a Second Avenue diner and went to wash her hands. When she returned, her wallet was missing. No unauthorized usage has been reported on her debit and credit cards, but $200 in cash plus her New York State driver’s license were taken.