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Teens on Bikes Involved in 3 Park Slope Cell Phone Thefts, Police Say

By Leslie Albrecht | October 19, 2015 7:37am
 NYPD police car parked in Park Slope.
NYPD police car parked in Park Slope.
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PARK SLOPE — Teens on bicycles have been involved in three recent cellphone thefts, according to police reports.

On Oct. 6 at 10:20 p.m., a 22-year-old woman was standing in front of Sugarcane restaurant on Flatbush Avenue near St. Marks Avenue when three teens on bikes passed her. One of the teens snatched both the woman’s iPhone 6 and a gold bracelet from her right hand. She ran after the teens but they got away, according to the report.

The next day, a teen boy on a mountain bike swiped an iPhone 6 from the hands of a 33-year-old woman as she was standing on the southwest corner of Fourth Avenue and 10th Street at 5:50 p.m., according to a police report.

On Oct. 10 at 2:45 p.m., a 26-year-old man was texting on the southwest corner of Park Place and Flatbush Avenue when a teen on a bike rode by and took his iPhone 6 out of his hand, a police report stated.

It wasn't immediately clear whether the same teens were involved in all three incidents.