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By Matthew Perlman
The Brooklyn Paper
84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Fool me once
Cops are looking for a 40-year-old man who they say swiped a phone from a woman’s pocket and nearly got her wallet on an A train on April 2.
The 35-year-old victim said she was in a Manhattan-bound A at 10:10 am when she noticed the scoundrel removing her billfold from the pocket of her bag. She confronted the lowlife and he gave back her wallet, then jumped off the train at High Street station, police said.
After the train pulled away, the unlucky lady realized her mobile device had gone missing, cops said.
Purse-loined
A crook broke into a man’s parked car on Jay Street on April 5 and stole a purse from the back seat, according to a police report.
The guy told cops he left the car near Prospect Street at 1:30 pm, and when he returned at 4:15 pm, he found the rear passenger-side window busted and a purse belonging to his 66-year-old mother missing. The bag contained a credit card and a cellphone, the report says.
Backfire
A gunman shot a 23-year-old fellow in the back on York Street near the Farragut Houses on April 1, officers stated.
The victim was between Bridge and Gold streets at 5:20 pm when the shooter opened up on him from behind, according to cops. The victim walked to the Brooklyn Hospital Center for treatment, a police report says.
Smoke-out
Police suspected a man was smoking pot inside a cell in Central Booking on Schermerhorn Street on April 3 and arrested him when he allegedly refused to be searched and resisted arrest.
Cops thought they saw the guy toking up in a temporary holding cell inside the Criminal Court building between Boerum Place and Smith Street at 11:10 pm, authorities said.
When officers confronted the suspect, he tried not to let them go through his pockets and he started flailing when they tried to cuff him, according to a report.
Artful dodger
A prowler broke into a Jay Street art studio sometime between April 1 and 4 and stole an electronic tablet, authorities said.
The 48-year-old victim told cops she locked up the studio between Plymouth and John streets at 3:45 pm and returned at 9:30 am on April 4 to find her door jimmied open and the device missing from her desk chair.
Phone phishing
A scam artist tricked an 88-year-old Hicks Street man into giving over his banking information on March 31, cops stated.
The man told police he got the call at his home, between Orange and Pineapple streets, at 2 pm. The voice on the phone said he was a Microsoft employee and convinced the senior to give over his personal information, according to a police report.
The victim noticed $1,448.21 missing from his account later that day, the report says.
Choked with child
Cops cuffed a 20-year-old man for allegedly punching and chocking a woman inside a Nassau Street apartment on April 1.
The victim, also 20, told police she and the suspected brute got into a verbal dispute in the building between Gold and Navy streets at 9:50 pm. The suspect started punching her, even though she was holding her young child, and then choked her, according to a police report.
More student debt
A lowlife snagged a 22-year-old college student’s debit card from a Jay Street bookstore counter on March 31 and racked up $70 in charges before she could cancel it, authorities said.
The student left her card unattended on the ledge at the prose dispensary between Tillary and Johnson streets at 1:40 pm while she shopped, cops said. The student told police she did not see who snagged it, but that she noticed the charges four hours later.
— Matthew Perlman
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