PARK SLOPE — A thief who apparently wanted to make a clean-smelling getaway stole nearly three dozen containers of Old Spice deodorant April 5, according to a police report.
The thief swiped 33 containers of Old Spice worth $156 from the Stop and Shop at the Atlantic Terminal Mall at 8:33 p.m. on April 5, according to the report. Officers at the scene found a glass pipe with crack cocaine residue on the thief, who was arrested.
Other recent crimes in the 78th Precinct include the following, with all details from police reports:
► A man who thought he had arranged to sell $670 in used electronics was instead robbed. The victim met up with the robber April 9 at 11:30 p.m. on St. Mark's Avenue and Sixth Avenue, expecting to trade the electronics for money. The robber put the victim in a headlock then threatened him with an ice pick until he handed over a Sony PlayStation 4, AT&T cellphone, and a toy Iron Man helicopter.
► An argument over a parking spot near Fourth Street and Eighth Avenue ended with one man breaking the side view mirrors off a 55-year-old man's 2002 Ford Explorer on April 4 at 2:10 p.m.
► A 42-year-old man reported that the sunroof on his 2004 Mercedes-Benz was damaged by garden shears April 2 at 11 p.m. on Fifth Street near Fourth Avenue. The car was parked at the time and it wasn't clear whether the damage was vandalism or if the shears had fallen off the balcony of a nearby building.
► A customer used a fake $100 bill at Patsy's Pizzeria on Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue on April 6 about 8:50 p.m.
► A 61-year-old man had his cellphone stolen when he fell asleep while charging it at the Stop and Shop in the Atlantic Terminal Mall on March 26 at about 10 p.m.
Overall, major crime in the 78th Precinct has dropped 24 percent this year compared to the same period in 2015, according to the most recent statistics from the NYPD. There were 176 major crimes reported between Jan. 1 and April 10, 2016 and 233 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.
