PARK SLOPE — A grocery store worker helped himself to a Christmas bonus without his boss's permission, according to a police report.
An employee at Food Train at Seventh Avenue and 11th Street pocketed $1,500 in cash while he worked the register from Dec. 24 to Dec. 26, according to the report. The employee, who had worked for the store for two years, was spotted on surveillance video putting money in his pockets as he stood at the register.
No arrests had been made in the case as of Jan. 8 and a store representative declined to comment.
Other notable crimes in this week's blotter at the 78th Precinct included the following, with details from police reports:
► Motorcycles were stolen from near St. Mark's and Fifth avenues on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29 by two men. The thieves took a 2009 white Yamaha on Dec. 28 about 7:45 p.m, and a 2005 yellow Suzuki on Dec. 29 at 3:40 a.m. Surveillance video from a nearby store shows the men putting the bikes into a white van and then driving away.
► An 18-year-old was assaulted and robbed when he went to visit a friend at the Wyckoff Gardens public housing complex at Third Avenue and Warren Street. The victim's friend wasn't home, and when he went to the elevator to leave the building, a group of people attacked him with an unknown object, knocking him unconscious.
The teen's Samsung Galaxy S3 and iPhone 4S were stolen during the attack, which happened on Dec. 30 at 12:20 p.m.
► A woman was walking home from the subway at Carlton Avenue and Bergen Street at 11:15 p.m. on Jan. 1 when two men ran up, bumped her and grabbed her cellphone.
Crime in the 78th Precinct declined in 2014, with major crimes dropping 8 percent compared with 2013, according to the latest statistics from the NYPD.
