VP Catches Bank Fraud The assistant vice president at an Upper West Side branch of Chase Bank caught on to a fraudulent check-cashing scheme after a suspect got away with her gambit at two other branches. On Monday, the perp walked into the third branch at 2:10 p.m. and attempted to cash a check for
On-the-Job Victims Two employees of a French restaurant on Broadway reported that their property was stolen from the basement coat check while they were working on the night of Friday, Sept. 21. The woman told police that a white man, about 40 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, with black balding hair,
Compiled by Megan Bungeroth SHOPPING SPREE GONE AWRY A local woman was shopping at a high-end clothing store on Columbus Avenue on Friday, Sept. 14. She placed her purse on a table while she was shopping, paid for her clothes, and left the store before she remembered that she didn’t have her purse with her.
Missing Mac Last Thursday, a man left his West 71st Street apartment around noon to grab some groceries from a nearby store, locking his front door behind him. When he returned, however, he discovered that his $2,000 MacBook laptop was gone. He also found the back door of his apartment building, which leads to the 
UN-YOGI-LIKE BEHAVIOR A 26-year-old yoga practitioner received a rude surprise at the end of a class recently. Before hitting the mat at a West 77th Street studio last Saturday, she stowed her personal belongings in an unlocked cubby (a normal practice for many yoga studios). By the time she had finished her final downward dog, 
Compiled by Josh Rogers JIMMY CHOO HEIST Burglars made off with over $70,000 worth of Jimmy Choo handbags and shoes at the designer’s Madison Avenue store Sunday night just before midnight, police said. Two witnesses saw two men running out of the store with white shopping bags. The burglars hopped in a gray minivan and
Compiled by Megan Bungeroth KIDDIE ROBBERY Last week, a local man came home around 11:30 a.m. to his apartment on Columbus Avenue, which he shares with three roommates, to find two complete strangers rummaging through their stuff. The perps fled on foot, and police were able to apprehend one 27-year-old suspect, who was caught in
A Loaded Request A 25-year-old man was sitting on a bench outside the Trump Tower facing Broadway around 7 p.m. last Tuesday when a young man, about 16 years old, came and sat next to him. The boy then turned to the unsuspecting victim and said, “If you don’t give me your phone, I will
A Whopping Fraud A 59-year-old Upper West Side resident found herself the victim of an unknown fraudster who swindled her out of tens of thousands of dollars. According to police, the mystery perp stole a check made out to the victim in the amount of $28,337.50. He or she opened a fraudulent Wells Fargo checking 
