Complete manicure
A Chelsea woman who went to have her nails done at Bloomies, 132 Seventh Ave., on Sunday afternoon July 22 told police she put her wedding and engagement rings on the table beside her and when she went to put them on again after the manicure found they were gone. The wedding ring was valued at $5,000 and the engagement ring was valued at $20,000.
Visitor robbed
A visitor, 19, from Surrey, England, was walking on Eighth Ave. at the corner of 28th St. at about 10:30 p.m. Sun. July 22 when three men walking in front of him suddenly stopped and one of them put his arm around the visitor’s shoulder and said, “Hey buddy, what’s up? You smoke weed? I can give you a good price,” police said. The visitor declined but the stranger went on, “Buy me a soda. No, give me $5. No, give me $20,” and the visitor, complied. The thief asked for another $20, but the visitor, who was staying at the Chelsea International Hostel, 251 W. 20th St., said he didn’t have any more. “Okay, then go to a bank or something and get it,” the thief demanded. The visitor said he didn’t have a local bankcard and the three thieves fled south on Eighth Ave.
Cut-rate crooks
Police arrested David Isaac, 28, on Monday morning July 23 for trying to walk out of the Rite Aid on Eighth Ave. at 24th St. with a CD player valued at $40, a Hershey bar and a can of Mountain Dew without paying for them. The manager of the Duane Reade at 322 Eighth Ave. at 26th St. told police that a woman customer charged $1,059 in merchandize on a Master Card on Mon. July 16. The store learned later that the card was false.
One day’s work
Daioh Sushi, 300 W. 23rd St., hired a temporary deliveryman on Sunday July 22 who disappeared with $267 he collected from the day’s work, police said. The manager tried next day to phone the man, identified only as Chen, in Brooklyn, but failed.
Metrocard bender
Transit police arrested James Whye, 42, at 6:25 p.m. Sun. July 22 at the Metrocard reader in the 23rd St. station of the Eighth Ave. subway and charged him with bending empty discarded cards so that they registered a fare. He had 11 altered cards in his possession, police said.
— By Albert Amateau
