Police Beat

Collected by Nick Pinto
POSTED FEBRUARY 1, 2008

75 Nassau
12/28...11 a.m.
A man entered a jewelry store and asked to see a ring, then flashed a silver handgun, placed a black bag on the counter, and said “Fill it up.” An employee emptied 12 trays of jewelry valued at $90,000 into the bag, and the man escaped on foot.

261 Broadway
1/2...4:30 p.m.
A man asked to be let into an apartment, saying he lived downstairs and that water from an upstairs bathroom was leaking into his apartment. Once inside, he damaged the pipes inside the bathroom and then left with a caretaker’s purse, which contained credit cards and $250.

310 Greenwich
1/3...1 p.m.
A 46-year-old man who lives in the building invited a 27-year-old Brooklyn man to spend the night with him after they met at a bar. The next morning, they had an argument and the resident stabbed his guest in the head, sending him to the hospital.

18 Desbrosses
1/3...7 p.m.
A resident found the main door and the door to a basement apartment forced open, but nothing was taken.

232 W. Broadway
1/9...9:20 p.m.
An intruder forced open the wooden door of a construction site and stole $1,300 worth of cables and other construction materials.

West & Murray
1/10...1 a.m.
A $3,000 laptop was stolen from a briefcase after its owner left it on the floor of a construction site.

15 Murray
1/10...5:15 p.m.
A woman attacked her husband’s co-worker on the street after a disagreement about money. She hit the victim on the neck with an unknown object.

15 Murray
1/13...6:15 a.m.
An intoxicated 26-year-old man reported that he had been struck in the face with a bottle and then punched outside a bar in the area, but wasn’t sure when or where the attack had taken place or who had struck him.

49 Fulton
1/14 bet. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
A resident left the door to his apartment unlocked when he went to a doctor’s appointment. When he returned, his laptop and cell phone, valued together at approximately $2,000, had been stolen.

25 Cedar
1/15...6:40 a.m.
Surveillance videos captured footage of a man sneaking into a restaurant when a deliveryman propped the door open. The intruder then took $200 in cash from the register and a bottle of Bacardi rum from the bar.

119 Chambers
Bet. 1/17, 4 p.m. and 1/18 11 a.m.
Boiler pipes and other items were cut and stolen from a building under construction.

15 Ann
1/18 bet. 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Residents returned to their apartment to find a hole had been cut in their wall, allowing burglars to open the front door and remove $3,000 in electronics, including a laptop computer, an iPod and two cameras.

West & Battery Place
Bet. 1/24, 3 p.m. and 1/15, 2 p.m.
A man parked his 2008 Gray Yamaha motorcycle but found it gone when he returned.

43 Park Place
1/26...3 a.m.
Police arrested an intoxicated 29-year-old man outside a bar and charged him with assault after he struck one victim with a barstool, injuring the victim’s shoulder, and punched another man in the face.

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