Pocketbook Protected

Written by NYPress on April 16, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jerry Danzig At 1 a.m. the night of Saturday, March 23, a 38-year-old woman from Brooklyn entered a pub on Amsterdam Avenue carrying a pocketbook. She left her pocketbook unattended for a few minutes when one of a group of three other women laid her jacket over the woman’s pocketbook. After the trio ordered
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Dozing under the Influence

Written by NYPress on April 16, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

At 5 a.m. on the morning of Sunday, April 7, police responded to a radio report of an unconscious driver pulled over in a red Lexus on the shoulder of the southbound lanes of the West Side Highway. The arresting officer saw that the vehicle’s automatic transmission was set in PARK, with the engine running.
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More iPhones Stolen

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jerry Danzig Add two more iPhone thefts to the growing list of cell phone snatches. On March 29, a 22-year-old female was walking eastbound on West 64th Street talking on her iPhone 5, when a man grabbed the device and fled into one of the Amsterdam Houses. Then on April 2, a 42-year-old woman
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Maid in the Shade

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jerry Danzig A 68-year-old woman and her husband were staying overnight at an elegant West Side hotel. The couple never left the room until they went out for dinner on the 28th. As they were leaving for dinner, the woman discovered that her diamond watch and jewelry, worth $65,400, were missing from the nightstand
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Another Crosstown Wallet Snatch

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jerry Danzig The morning of March 27, a 68-year-old woman from out of town took the 79th Street cross-town bus to the west side after visiting the Metropolitan Museum. When she got off the bus at 79th and Broadway, she realized that her wallet was missing from her purse. Fortunately, no fraudulent charges were
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Black Bag Bank Job

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Jerry Danzig On March 27, a bank branch on Broadway was robbed when two men entered and ordered a bank teller to fill a black plastic bag with cash. No weapons were displayed during the heist, and the men took off with $1,040. Police are still seeking the perpetrators
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Thanks for the Memory Cards

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Jerry Danzig Upon entering a chain electronics store the morning of March 26, an employee discovered that someone had removed memory cards worth $7,665 from storage. There were no signs of forced entry, surveillance cameras had been disabled, and the burglar alarm was broken. Police believe that the burglar or burglars entered the establishment through
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Diabetes Test Strips Stripped from Store

Written by NYPress on April 10, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

The morning of March 20, two men broke a plastic product cover sheet in a chain drug store on Amsterdam Avenue and took $1,847.28 worth of the test strips that diabetes patients rely on to measure glucose in whole blood. The theft was caught on store video, and police have been reviewing the footage in
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Vacation Break-In

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on April 3, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

Can you even trust pest control anymore? A man living at West 76th Street said that he went on vacation from March 8th to March 15th. When he returned, he noticed that his silver watch, worth $18,000, was missing from his dresser. He said the only people with access to his apartment during that week
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Watch-Snatcher Hits Upscale Store

Written by Joanna Fantozzi on April 3, 2013. Posted in Crime Watch West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

On March 22nd, employees at an upscale clothing store on Columbus Avenue observed an unknown man enter the store, putter around, and then leave after five minutes. The man then re-entered and handed the cashier two shoeboxes. He said he did not have enough cash to pay for the shoes, and would be back with
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