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December 15, 2009
Mobile bandit seized
The Brooklyn Paper, Police Blotter
by Sabrina Jaszi
Holiday shoppers who want to avoid the "blight" of being a crime victim would do well to steer clear of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal malls.
Retail rampage
Shoppers beware! Atlantic Avenue clothing emporiums are rife with crime this holiday season. One thief even struck twice in the Marshall’s in the Atlantic Center Mall on Dec. 9.
That thief’s first victim was a high schooler who told cops that the sneak brushed by her diaper bag at 2 pm and took her wallet. She lost only loose change, she said.
But minutes later, the thief snagged an older woman’s bag from her cart. She later found the bag hanging from a fence, but $200 had been removed, along with all of her credit cards.
Related coverage...
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill], The Week in Crime: Thieves and Assailants
With all the crimes going down, the Brooklyn Paper had to call in some back-up from The Local.
* A 23-year-old man was punched to the ground Monday at 7:30 p.m. in front of 625 Atlantic Avenue and then repeatedly socked and kicked by three men while he was down. He was treated by emergency medical personnel for cuts, swelling and pain to his left eye. Israel Rodriguez Jr, 21; Luc Vincent, 19; and Robertson Valle, 27, were charged with gang assault in the first degree.
"625 Atlantic Avenue" is AKA "the Atlantic Center mall." Surely Times brass wouldn't have ordered The Local, which last week referred to the "Atlantic Mall" in its crime report, to obscure the scene of the crime(s) (which, after all, is owned by its development partner in its headquarters building) by using the street address instead of the more easily identifiable name?
* 12/8: A woman stole $1,463 in tops, panties and bottoms from the Old Navy department store in 625 Atlantic Avenue. The police arrested Victoria Perez, 38.
* 12/8: Woman, 71, discovered $130 in unauthorized credit card charges after her wallet was swiped in Marshalls at 625 Atlantic Avenue.
Posted by eric at December 15, 2009 12:52 PM