Volume One, Issue 23, February 23 - March 1, 2007
Police Blotter
Fake agent
A woman resident of Chelsea told police that a man purporting to be a real estate agent showed her an apartment that she liked at 214 E. 25th St. on Feb. 13. The agent accompanied her to her bank on Seventh Ave. at 17th St. where she withdrew $2,395 and gave him the money for rent a security. She said she went to the apartment a week later and found it was already rented. The “agent” was nowhere to be found.
Coat on bar
A patron of Martine, a bar at 365 W. 16th St., left his coat on the bar while talking with friends on the night of Feb. 5 and discovered after he went home that several charges had been made on his missing credit cards at two locations, police said.
Golf clubs
A man who parked his car on W. 21st St. between Ninth and 10th Aves at 8 a.m. Feb. 2 went to retrieve it at 5 p.m. and found the rear door broken open and the golf bag and clubs, valued at $1,180, that he had left on the back seat were gone, police said.
Pocket picked
A woman told police that an unknown pickpocket took her wallet while she was in the Eighth Ave. subway station at 14th St. on Thursday evening Feb. 15. She lost $300 in cash and a credit card which had several unauthorized charges.
Cell phone snatch
A man who was talking on his cell phone while walking on W. 27th St. between 10th and 11th Aves at 6 p.m. Mon. Feb. 19 was mugged by two men who came up from behind, police said. One of the thieves grabbed the victim’s wrist and the other snatched the phone.
Pink elephant
A New Jersey man told police he went to Crobar, the club at 530 W. 28th St. at about 10:30 p.m. Sat. Feb. 17 and gave a bartender his credit card and drivers license before he ran up a tab. When he asked to settle the tab, he was told that the card and license had been returned to him. After he got home he discovered that someone had made charges that night at Pink Elephant, a club on W. 27th St., police said.
—Albert Amateau
