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CRIME BLOTTER: Six Flags Tickets Stolen at Crown Heights Car Wash

By Rachel Holliday Smith | July 17, 2015 10:42am | Updated on July 19, 2015 8:59pm
 A man's car was burglarized during a car wash in Crown Heights this week.
A man's car was burglarized during a car wash in Crown Heights this week.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — That'll throw cold water on your summer plans.

Hundreds of dollars in tickets to Six Flags amusement park were stolen out of a vehicle getting a car wash on Midwood street last week, after the owner left them — and his wallet — inside when he left, police said.

The man took his car to the Utica Car Wash at 863 Midwood St. and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights at 10:30 a.m. on July 11, he told police. When he returned for car a short while later, his wallet with $450 in cash and the Six Flags tickets, worth $245, had been removed.

No suspect has been identified in the burglary, police said. An inquiry about the theft was not immediately returned by Utica Car Wash.

Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens include:

► A 57-year-old man was sitting at a bus stop at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue at 11 a.m. on July 8 when an unknown male, approximately 40 years old, sat down next to him, reached for the man’s bag and then began punching him. After a brief struggle, the suspect fled with the bag, which contained about $50. The victim took the bus to SUNY Downstate Medical Center for treatment of minor injuries, police said.

► Unknown suspects broke into the rear door of a home on Clarkson Avenue between Bedford and Rogers avenues between 3 p.m. on July 8 and 7 a.m. on July 9 and stole a ladder, jack hammer, bathtub, copper tubing and various construction supplies including hammers, masks and gloves totaling $2,100.

► An approximately 20-year-old male suspect attempted to rob four people by gunpoint while riding a bike within 24 hours on the nights of July 9 and 10. Police say he rode up behind each victim, threatened them with a silver handgun and demanded their cellphones. The robberies all happened within a few blocks, from Brooklyn to Troy avenues between Empire Boulevard and East New York Avenue.

► A 24-year-old man was arrested for illegal possession of a gun after police tried to stop him for drinking an open container of alcohol at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Union Street at midnight on July 12. The man tried to flee the officers who stopped him, resisted arrest and in a subsequent search, was found to have a .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver.

► Four boys between the ages of 12 and 18 were arrested after they were seen using bolt cutters to steal two bikes out of a building on East New York Avenue between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues at 12:30 a.m. on July 12. Witnesses told police two of the boys were acting as lookouts as the others removed the bikes, worth $250 in total.