PARK SLOPE — A petite teen girl in a pink top and ponytail was arrested after beating a Park Slope woman with an umbrella while another teen stole her iPhone 6 on Aug. 1, according to a police report.
The victim, 43, was checking her email on the $500 phone on the corner of St. Marks Avenue and Sixth Avenue at 11:07 p.m. when two teen girls approached her.
One of the girls hit the victim twice in the head with an umbrella while her accomplice snatched the phone. Police arrested the 5-foot-2-inch, 16-year-old girl who beat the woman. The accomplice hadn't been arrested as of Aug 11.
Other recent crimes in the 78th Precinct include the following, with all details from police reports:
► A 36-year-old woman was arrested after stealing $194 in perfume from the Victoria’s Secret at Atlantic Terminal Mall on Aug 7.
► A 26-year-old man was arrested after stealing two gaming controllers worth $110 total from the Best Buy at Atlantic Center Mall on Aug 1 at 2:30 p.m. When a store employee spotted the thief and confronted him, the thief shoved the employee to the ground and ran away. The Best Buy worker then caught up with the thief, who pushed him to the ground and kicked him in the head.
► A Yamaha motorcycle was stolen from St. John's Place between Sixth and Seventh avenues on July 30.
► A Vespa scooter was stolen from outside of an “abandoned building” on Seventh Avenue and Third Street sometime between May 31 and Aug. 4 while the scooter’s owner was overseas. The 59-year-old owner left the $2,000 2001 Vespa chained on the sidewalk before his trip and returned home to find it was gone.
► A thief swiped two library books ("The Philokalia” and “City of God”) from a table at the Brooklyn Public Library main branch on Grand Army Plaza on July 30 at 1 p.m. when the man who had checked the books out left them on a table while walking around the library.
► Someone stole a 16-year-old boy's cell phone after he left it unattended while it was charging on a computer at the Brooklyn Public Library main branch on Grand Army Plaza on July 30 at 5 p.m.
► A vandal broke the rear window of a Dodge Journey sedan parked opposite 269 Douglass St. on Aug 1.
Overall, major crime in the 78th Precinct has dropped 8 percent this year compared to the same period in 2015, according to the most recent statistics from the NYPD. There were 487 major crimes reported between Jan. 1 and July 31, 2016, and 532 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, grand larceny, 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.
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