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Police Blotter
Police impersonators Two men with fake police identifications stole $14,000 in cash plus jewelry valued at $10,000 and a laptop computer from an 82-year-old woman who was alone in her apartment at 260 W. 16th St. at Eighth Ave. on Tuesday evening Feb. 19, police said. The fake cops knocked on the victim’s door at 5:30 p.m., said they were detectives, showed the purported credentials, and told the woman her grandson was in jail and needed items in his room for evidence, police said. Gramercy bashing Police arrested Ismael Montes, 22, on Fri., Feb. 8 near the restaurant where he worked on Irving Pl. at E. 17th St. and charged him with assault for hitting a co-worker, 29, on the head with a belt buckle a block from the Gramercy area restaurant at 1 a.m. on Thurs., Feb. 7. Police did not give a motive for the attack but said the suspect also tried to stab the victim before fleeing from the scene. He was freed on bail pending a May 22 court appearance. Gansevoort boutique burglaries A woman employee at Charles Nolan clothing boutique at 30 Gansevoort St. discovered a stranger near the side door at an area not open to the public shortly after noon on Thurs., Feb. 14, police said. The stranger said, “I’m here to work on the boiler,” to which the employee replied, “No you’re not.” The stranger fled, but the woman and other employees discovered their wallets and other items had been stolen. The manager of Rubin Chapelle boutique at 410 W. 14th St. told police that merchandise was discovered missing shortly after noon on Thurs., Feb. 14. A surveillance camera image recorded the previous day showed a man stuffing items into a bag, police said. Hits construction site Burglars broke into a construction site at 506 W. 24th St. sometime between Saturday afternoon Feb. 16 and Monday morning Feb. 18, and made off with laser measuring devices, drills and a computer with a total value of $3,545, police said. An employee who came to the location on Sunday to fix a machine said he found the construction trailer door open. ID theft A resident of 362 W. 23rd St. told police on Mon., Feb. 18 that someone had gotten a credit card in his name from City Cards without his permission or knowledge. City Cards never alerted him, and he found out only when a business at London Terrace notified him that he had an outstanding debt of $20,000. A resident of 420 W. 23rd St. told police on Tues., Feb. 19 that her credit card was rejected when she presented it for a purchase the previous week. She learned later that a $1,400 unauthorized charge had been made on it in the Dominican Republic. Art gallery burglary The manager of Cue Art Foundation at 511 W. 25th St. told police that on Saturday night Feb. 16 she noticed that a locked box with $12 in petty cash was missing. A surveillance tape showed the image of a man rummaging around and fleeing through a side door off camera. On Feb. 7, the surveillance camera recorded another intruder, but the manager told police the Feb. 16 suspect was a white male in a black sweatshirt, tan baseball cap and blue jeans, and was different from the earlier burglar. Bags snatched A woman with a bag filled with books got on a downtown No. 1 train on Tues., Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. when an unidentified thief snatched the bag from her grasp and fled at the Seventh Ave. station at 23rd St., police said. A Queens woman on a downtown A train at 1:45 p.m. Wed., Feb. 20 put her bag on a seat, got up to look at the subway map and found the bag gone before she got to the Eighth Ave. station at W.14th St., police said. A visitor from Florida told police on Mon., Feb. 18 that she discovered her bag was missing and that a credit card had an unauthorized $40 charge for a MetroCard. The victim remembered last having the bag when she paid for a cab ride at 2:30 a.m. that morning to W. 23rd St. and Ninth Ave., police said. Morning bite A bouncer at Marquee, the club at 289 10th Ave., was escorting a rowdy woman out of the club shortly before 3 a.m. Wed., Feb. 20 when she bit him on the wrist, police said. Meriam Worren, 22, was charged with assault. Homeless death A homeless man taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital on Jan.8 when he was found unconscious in front of 267 W. 17th St. near Eighth Ave., died Mon., Feb. 18, police said. He had no ID but said he was Marvin Starvin. He was identified later as Marvin Brown of Brooklyn. Pot and weapon busts Police arrested Roberto Sanchez, 19, on the southwest corner of Eighth Ave. at W. 20th St. shortly after midnight Mon., Feb. 18 and charged him with criminal possession of a weapon, a gravity knife. Sanchez has a previous weapons conviction, police said. Police arrested George Dixon, 46, at 5:15 p.m. Tues., Feb 19 in the rear of 427 W. 26th St. in the Elliott Chelsea complex and charged him with possession of a controlled substance for carrying a lit marijuana joint. — By Albert Amateau
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