POLICE BEAT

120 Church St.
May 17, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

A woman hung her purse over the back of an adjacent chair at Starbucks. About an hour later, she realized that the purse, which contained bank cards, a Macy’s credit card and a New Jersey driver’s license, was gone.

#1 Train, South Ferry Station
May 16, 3 - 4:20 a.m.

A man boarded a southbound train at West 34th St. and 7th Avenue and fell asleep. When he was awakened by the conductor at the South Ferry station, he discovered that his front and back pants pockets had been cut and his iPhone and wallet, which contained $120, were missing.

Pier 15
May 15, 3 p.m.

A man realized that he had left his backpack behind on the pier when he boarded a ferry at the South Street Seaport. When he returned to the pier, the Adidas backpack, which contained an iPhone charger, headphones and a wallet with $160, bank cards, health insurance cards and a driver’s license, was gone.

228 Front St.
May 12, 7:30 p.m.

Someone made off with a man’s laptop bag, which he had left on the floor next to the bar at Jeremy’s Ale House while he went outside for five minutes to smoke a cigarette. The bag contained a MacBook Pro valued at $2,200 and a $100 hard drive.

81 Pearl St.
May 12, 7:20 - 7:35 p.m.

A thief stole the bag of a man who was eating dinner at Beckett’s Bar and Grill. The victim, who had put the bag next to him while he ate, lost a Dell laptop valued at $1,300, a Blackberry cell phone, an iPhone charger, keys, medication and a Ralph Lauren wallet holding three bank cards.

69 Gold St.
May 12, 7 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

A man parked his 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and when he returned more than 10 hours later, it was gone. There was no broken glass on the street next to the van and police confirmed that it had not been towed.

2 South End Ave.
May 11, 3:40 a.m.

An employee of the Preschool of America opened the school in the morning to find that a locked drawer had been forced open and someone had removed $236. Surveillance video shows an unidentified man inside the school. Police suspect that the man entered through the rear window. It is unclear whether the window had been left open, but it was found ajar in the morning.

South & Whitehall Streets
May 10, midnight

A cab driver was checking the tire pressure on his taxi when a man allegedly ran into the car and drove off.

According to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, police later saw the thief, identified as Yorman Terrero, 20, speeding and swerving around vehicles on the FDR Drive. Terrero then lost control of the taxi and hit a median and pole on the Drive.

Terrero was charged with grand larceny in the third degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree and reckless endangerment in the second degree, according to the DA’s office.

23 Maiden Lane
May 8, 4:15 a.m.

While eating lunch at Subway, a woman’s Prada bag was stolen. The bag, which the victim had hung on the back of her chair, contained an iPhone, $100, bank cards, a pair of jeans and sunglasses. Surveillance video showed a man removing the bag and leaving the restaurant.