PARK SLOPE — A woman came home from the hospital to find her brother had stolen $5,000 in cash from her apartment, according to a police report.
The woman left her home on Warren Street between Third and Fourth avenues Feb. 1 and returned on the 17th to find her door kicked in and the money gone, according to a police report. The cash had been stashed inside a jacket pocket in the woman's closet, according to the report.
Police arrested the woman's brother and another man in connection with the burglary.
Other notable crimes in this week's blotter at the 78th Precinct include the following, with details from police reports:
► A man threatened another man with a knife during an argument over a parking spot at Lowe's on Second Avenue and 11th Street on Feb. 16 at 3 p.m., police said. The victim was making a delivery to a loading area behind the store when another delivery truck driver confronted him over a parking spot. The other driver got a knife out of his truck and told the victim, "I know you and I will come back to kill you." He then drove away.
► A 27-year-old man was arrested after using a fake ID and someone else's credit card to buy $3,700 in electronics at the Best Buy in the Atlantic Center mall Feb. 15., police said.
► A 32-year-old man was arrested after using "fraudulently re-encoded" Target credit cards to make more than $3,000 in purchases at the Target at Atlantic Terminal mall in August and September 2015, police said. The crime was reported on Feb. 17.
► Two women were arrested after punching and biting another woman on 14th Street and Eighth Avenue on Feb. 20.
► A man was arrested Feb. 20 for driving with a fake driver's license, police said. A police officer pulled the man over on Fourth Avenue and Union Street because he was driving a car with an obstructed view of the road. When the officer asked for the driver's license, the driver showed him a "fraudulent driver's license that cited both the United Nations and Geneva Convention as validity." A search of Department of Motor Vehicle records revealed that the man's license had been suspended eight times.
Overall, major crime in the 78th Precinct has dropped 20 percent this year compared to the same period in 2015, according to the most recent statistics from the NYPD. There were 91 major crimes reported between Jan. 1 and Feb. 21, 2016, and 114 major crimes during that period in 2015.
Editor's note: The 78th Precinct no longer provides information to the media on open cases involving major crimes such as robbery, rape, burglary and felony assault. Some information on those crimes can be found on the NYPD's CompStat 2.0 website and on the NYPD's NYC Crime Map.
