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CRIME BLOTTER: Vintage Gibson Guitar Stolen from Van on Bedford Avenue

By Rachel Holliday Smith | September 25, 2015 9:50am | Updated on September 27, 2015 5:15pm
 A $3,500 vintage Gibson guitar was stolen from a van in Crown Heights last week, police said.
A $3,500 vintage Gibson guitar was stolen from a van in Crown Heights last week, police said.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — They made out like band-its.

Robbers made off with a man’s $3,500 vintage guitar stolen from his van parked overnight in the neighborhood last week, police said.

The 1967 Gibson guitar along with a keyboard and two guitar pedals were inside a Ford van parked on the corner of Union Street and Bedford Avenue between midnight and 6 a.m. on Sept. 18, police said. Thieves broke into the vehicle and took the instruments, worth $4,200 in total.

The owner of the van, a 43-year-old man, told police he parked the van at night and came back in the morning to find that one of its doors has been broken into.

No suspects have been identified in the robbery and no arrests have been made.

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

The above map depicts only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from the precinct, click here.

Eight members of a neighborhood youth gang were arrested after the crew assaulted and robbed an 18-year-old of his bike at the corner of Rogers and Parkside avenues around 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 22.

The victim said the eight teens punched him in the face, pushed him off his bike, kicked him and took off with the two-wheeler. Soon afterwards, officers arrested all eight of the teens, ages 15 through 19, who police say are all members of the Young Savages gang, which has an ongoing rivalry with a separate gang at the nearby Ebbets Field apartments in Crown Heights.

► A 45-year-old man walking at the corner of President Street and Brooklyn Avenue was slashed in the arm following an argument with a 36-year-old man driving by around 3:00 p.m. on Sept. 18. The man got out of his car and slashed the victim with a knife, sending him to the hospital for treatment of minor wounds. The man was arrested and charged with assault, court documents show.

► A 56-year-old man was beaten by a group of teenagers who stole $200 in cash and a $400 Galaxy S4 cell phone from him at the corner of Rogers and Parkside avenues around 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18, police said. One 17-year-old from the group was arrested shortly after the robbery.

► An 18-year-old was put in a headlock by a group of robbers who attacked him from behind around 10 p.m. on Sept. 18 at Winthrop Street and Schenectady Avenue. The victim said the group took his iPhone, book bag, headphones, sneakers, a portable speaker and PS4 video game controller he was carrying and his Chicago Bulls hat, worth $500 in total.

► A 30-year-old woman was arrested for stealing a Citi Bike on Sept. 20. Police said an officer saw the bike lying outside of 1745 President St. between Utica and Rochester avenues around 6:15 p.m. when a woman picked it up and rolled it into the apartment building.

When approached, the woman said she found the bike “in the garbage” near Atlantic Avenue and said she intended to dock it later, the police report said. When contacted, Citi Bike said the bicycle was supposed to be in the possession of a different person and the woman was arrested.

►Two boys, ages 12 and 13, were robbed of their cellphones at the corner of President Street and Brooklyn Avenue at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 21. The boys said five teenagers — four males and one female — approached them and one threatened them with a knife, then stole their phones and fled on foot.

► A 41-year-old man who was panhandling at a Utica Avenue diner broke a glass door at the restaurant after he was told to leave, police said. The man was asking customers of Mike’s Diner at 630 Utica Ave. for money around 11:15 p.m. on Sept. 22 when the proprietor asked him to leave. As he walked out, he shattered the diner’s glass door and was arrested shortly afterwards.