Credit Card Identity Theft On Feb. 1, a 23-year-old man was observed using a credit card that was not his at a high-end clothing store on Madison Avenue. The man had spent $4,545 on clothes. He had apparently obtained his victim’s personal information and used a counterfeit card. Police also determined that the man had 
ART THIEF ON MAIN STREET A 53-year-old man left an unknown man in his art studio on Main Street on Roosevelt Island on the afternoon of Jan. 29. After he returned five minutes later, the man discovered that one of his paintings had vanished from the gallery wall. The artwork, “Kids in the Sun Painting” 
PARENTS CALL FOR ACTION ON AFTER SCHOOL ASSAULTS After multiple thefts and assaults against students outside of Joan of Arc School on West 93rd Street, parents are pleading for increased school security. City Councilmember Gale Brewer wrote a letter to the 24th Precinct asking for a police officer to be present at the 92nd Street entrance 
CAUGHT RED-HANDED A sneaky customer swiped a scanner from a pharmacy on York Avenue on Wednesday, Nov. 21, but failed to get away with the robbery. The thief entered the store at 11:30 a.m., picked up a $2,500 Motorola Telzon scanner from the counter, then walked out. No one witnessed the theft, but the scanner 
FAKE COPS A deliveryman lost his money and iPhone on Saturday when he was swindled by two fake cops. The 25-year-old deliveryman arrived at an apartment building on West 61st Drive around 10:30 p.m. A man greeted him at the building’s front door and asked him to step inside the lobby. The deliveryman refused, and 
HEADPHONE HEIST A 40-year-old man and a trio of teenage girls were arrested on Saturday after attempting to rob an electronics store on Lexington Avenue. At around 1:45 p.m., the perps entered the store and removed six pairs of studio headphones worth almost $2,000. Police caught wind of the heist and pursued the robbers, and 
Cab Nab A man was splitting a taxi with a 26-year-old woman when she managed to reach into his pocket and pull out his $400 iPhone and European credit card. The man noticed his items missing and politely asked for his things back. The woman refused, so the man made the cabbie drive to the
Compiled by Amanda Woods STREET ATTACK As a 36-year-old man was walking southbound from 96th Street on Lexington Avenue on Tuesday, someone punched him from behind. When the man turned to defend himself, someone else punched him. The man suffered pain and small cuts on the inside of his upper lip and chin. The attackers, 
Compiled by Amanda Woods Sweet Music for Thief One musician found that her car is not a safe place to keep her instrument. A 21-year-old woman told police that she parked her car on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and East 95th Street, and when she returned at 7:30 p.m. she discovered that someone
Purse Ploy Last Thursday afternoon, two ladies strolled into a high-end luxury store in the East 60s, seemingly to browse the exquisite hand bags, shoes and other leather goods. As one of the women chatted with a sales associate about a pair of shoes she was eyeing, her companion took a leather briefcase off the 
