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Four Williamsburg Car Windows Smashed in a Week, Police Say

By Serena Dai | July 22, 2014 4:11pm
 Four cars in Williamsburg had their windows smashed and contents stolen last week, police said.
Four cars in Williamsburg had their windows smashed and contents stolen last week, police said.
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WILLIAMSBURG — Thieves smashed the windows of four cars parked on Williamsburg streets, taking laptops, designer sunglasses and designer bags from inside, according to police.

Early last Monday, a 23-year-old man returned to his car parked on North 12th Street near Berry Street to find the front driver's side window smashed and $1,000 worth of property gone.

The man had left the car at 1 a.m. and returned from a club at 4:50 a.m.

An iPhone 5, a Michael Kors bag, a Coach wallet, Ray Ban aviators and a New York State drivers permit were missing, according to police.

A woman, 62, who parked her car on Monitor Street near Herbert Street from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning after 10 a.m. had her front window broken, too.

Property worth $1,800 was taken. It included a MacBook Air, a silver iPod touch, a hard drive, an insurance card and New York State car registration, police said.

On Thursday evening, a car parked for about three hours at Bedford Avenue and North 12th Street had its rear window broken and $1,550 worth of property taken.

A man, 39, returned to it just past 11 p.m. to find his IBM Thinkpad laptop, checkbooks, miscellaneous paperwork and a Swiss backpack gone, police said.

And a car parked on North 10th Street near Union Avenue on Saturday from midnight to 5 a.m. had its rear window borken and $1,273 worth of property taken, police said.

A man, 30, told police that a Picnic Time cooler, noise canceling headphones, a North Face backpack, Marc Jacobs sunglasses and an iPhone 4 were taken.

It's not clear if the crimes were related.

Other notable crimes that occurred recently in the 94th Precinct include:

► A burglar broke into a home on the 200 block of Richard Street last Saturday after pushing in the apartment's air conditioning unit, police said.

A woman, 23, left home at 12:30 p.m. and returned home around 9 p.m. to find that her Apple MacBook Pro and power cord, totalling $1,400, gone, she told police.

The burglar possibly fled through the front door, which was closed but unlocked.

► More than $23,000 worth of cash and gold jewelry were taken from a safe in a 59-year-old woman's apartment on Driggs Avenue near Russell Street, police said.

On Friday between 8 a.m. and 1:55 p.m., a burglar entered through the rear fire escape window, which was wide open, police said.

The safe was in the corner of a bedroom, police said. Gold necklaces, gold rings, gold bracelets and eight pairs of gold earrings were missing, along with $2,000, police said.

► A man spotted biking on the sidewalk in Williamsburg was arrested after police discovered he was using a stolen Citi Bike.

Edward Lewis, 45, was arrested last Wednesday for stealing the bike, which is worth $1,200.

It had last been docked at the station on Wythe and Metropolitan avenues on Monday around 3 p.m. and had been out of the system for two days, police said.

► A woman who left her wallet at the North 5th Street Piers ended up with nearly $70,000 in charges to her debit and credit cards, police said.

The woman, 21, had left her Kate Spade wallet on a bench at the park on Saturday at 11 p.m., police said.

When she realized she'd left it, there were multiple charges on her credit card and debit card, she told police, adding up to $69,656.