Mercedes Mischief
A businessman told police that a Westchester Police Department detective notified him that a car owned by his company was involved in a fatal accident in Hawthorne, N.Y. When the man heard the news, it was the first time he had heard that his car was stolen, he told police. The man is often in and out of the city on business. The Westchester detective later informed the man that his 2010 Mercedes-Benz, worth $75,000, was taken from a Quik Park garage on East 66th Street between Second and Third avenues on June 30, and that the fatal accident occurred on July 8. The man uses the Quik Park as his monthly garage, and he said he had given no one permission to take the car out of the garage. The Westchester Police Department impounded the car and is conducting an investigation.

Unlocked Away
One incident that took place on Tuesday just after midnight serves as a reminder to always lock your car. A 29-year-old woman said she saw someone enter the unlocked front passenger door of a 29-year-old woman’s silver 2009 Jeep while another man stood nearby, acting as a lookout. The suspect snatched a $500 Tiffany necklace, a Chase debit card and a $100 iPod from the car. None of the items were recovered. Police are looking for 5-foot-11 Caucasian person with straight hair and a white T-shirt—the gender was not specified—and a dark-skinned Hispanic man wearing light blue jeans and a gray tank top in connection with the crime.

Armed Robbery
A 24-year-old woman told police that she was walking home from the subway station on 86th Street and Lexington Avenue at 10:50 p.m. when a teenage boy displaying a black handgun followed her and grabbed her iPhone from behind. The boy, described as about 5-foot-9 with an Afro, shorts and a white T-shirt, fled north on Park Avenue. The woman said she saw two other black males running eastbound on East 91st Street at the time, but couldn’t see their faces. The iPhone, worth $200, was not recovered.

Street Attack and Robbery
When a 33-year-old woman was walking westbound on East 93rd Street from First to Second Avenue at 2:10 a.m. on Monday, a man, about 5-foot-11, came up behind her, pushed her to the ground and took her $400 orange Coach bag, her keys and her Blackberry phone. The perp then kicked the woman on her right side. She was taken to Metropolitan Hospital to be treated for pain. None of the stolen items were recovered.

Stopped Before BEING Stolen
One attempted burglar was stopped before he could get away with his crime this week. A 22-year-old man was arrested on Monday afternoon after he attempted to sneak items from the Best Buy at Lexington Avenue and East 86th Street and hide them in his jacket. A store asset protection agent spotted the man before he was able to leave the store with a Batman Blu-ray disc, worth $20, and a Beach uncut DVD, worth $80.

Crime Overkill

How many guys does it take to steal two iPhones, a $40 Metrocard and $31 in cash? Five, apparently, with a semi-automatic firearm thrown into the mix. A posse of five perpetrators accosted two young men on Amsterdam Avenue near West 68th Street at about 2:30 a.m. on Monday. The group showed the men the gun and racked the slide on the weapon, demanding cash and their phones. The perps made off with their loot—pretty paltry when split five ways—and fled on foot.

Faulty Memory, Missing Jewelry

A 60-year-old woman reported to police that the jewelry she had shown to her roommate and to one of her home health aides had gone missing. The woman said that she has had several aides at different times and could not remember to whom she showed the jewelry. She said that she kept the valuables in her bedroom safe but did not lock it. The missing items, which are worth a total of $3,579, include a $2,000 gold and diamond ring and gold wedding bands worth $1,000.

Happy Healthy Thieves

In the middle of the day last Friday, three brazen thieves—two women and one man working together—stormed a Rite Aid on Amsterdam Avenue and grabbed dozens of items off the store shelves. The trio made off with $3,042 worth of drugstore products.

Short on Cash

A 41-year-old man was arrested early Saturday morning after he was caught red-handed rifling through a stolen purse. The man had been drinking at a local pub and was caught without the funds to pay for his $69 bar tab at the end of the evening. He snagged a woman’s purse from her chair and snuck it into the men’s bathroom to snatch her credit cards, but was found out before he could do any damage.

Breaking the Lease

Some people just don’t read the fine print on their rental agreements. A woman reported to police last week that her tenant, to whom she had rented a fully furnished apartment, apparently didn’t understand that the furnishings were not hers to keep and move as she pleased. The lessee vacated the apartment and stole two televisions worth over $1,000, as well as the cable boxes, a lamp, TV stand and armoire, together worth $2,598.

Drinking Games

A pair of friends were drinking together at one of their apartments on West 62nd Street last Tuesday. All was going well until they got into a verbal spat, which quickly escalated to violence when the woman picked up a glass cup used for decoration and decided to use it instead as a weapon, smashing it into her male buddy’s face. The man suffered a laceration, severe bleeding and bruising and was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital for treatment.

Grocery Store Grabber

A woman was shopping at Trader Joe’s around noon last Friday, her purse in her cart as she searched for cheap produce. When she got to the checkout, however, she discovered that her wallet was missing. By the time she walked over to a local Citibank branch to report her credit cards stolen, the bank told her that someone had used her card to purchase a $510 computer at Best Buy.