PARK SLOPE — Baristas at a Starbucks got short changed when a thief swiped the coffee shop's tip jar.
The thief struck at 7:15 p.m. on Feb. 21 at the coffee giant's outpost on Seventh Avenue near First Street, according to a police report. There was $25 in the tip jar at the time, the report stated.
Other notable crimes in this week's blotter at the 78th Precinct include the following, with all details taken from police reports:
► A woman had her $650 electric bike stolen after she left it unlocked outside the Park Slope Food Co-op while she worked a Sunday morning shift, police said. The woman, 44, showed up for an 8:30 a.m. shift at the member-run grocery on Union Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on Feb. 21. She left her electric bike outside next to a nearby bike rack. The woman didn't lock up the bike because its battery was dead. When she returned the next day to pick it up, the bike had been stolen.
► Two thieves grabbed a woman's purse from her shopping cart as she was standing in the checkout line at the Associated Supermarket on Fifth Avenue near Union Street on Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. The thieves ran away toward the Union Street subway station. They took $100 in cash out of the bag before throwing the purse on the ground. They then fled into the subway tunnel. Police later arrested one of the suspects.
► A 27-year-old man was arrested Feb. 22 near Eighth Avenue and 12th Street after police saw him using marijuana and then discovered he had eight morphine pills, one Oxycodone pill and 39 prescription anti-depressants. The man did not have prescriptions for any of the pills.
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.
