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May 3, 2011
More trouble at Ratner’s malls
The Brooklyn Paper
by Thomas Tracy
Maybe, someday, "social missionary" Bruce Ratner will go on a mission to truly protect the pocketbooks of patrons shopping in his crime-plagued Fort Greene malls.
Ratner raids
There was more trouble at the, well, troubled Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal last week. Here’s the rundown:
• A 51-year-old man was arrested on April 27 after he was caught swiping eight pairs of women’s shoes and four handbags from the Marshall’s in the Atlantic Center. The thief was caught by store security just before exiting the store between Fort Greene Place and S. Portland Avenue at 7:10 pm.
• A thief snaked a cellphone out of a woman’s handbag as she perused the aisles inside the Atlantic Terminal Target. The woman was about to buy something at the Flatbush Avenue store at 4 pm when she realized her cellphone had been taken — even though she had possession of her bag the entire time.
• Someone swiped a wallet from a woman caring for her child inside the Atlantic Center on April 30. The woman had put her wallet on the ground as she tended to her child at 8 pm, not realizing that someone was nearby looking to exploit an opportunity.
Posted by eric at May 3, 2011 11:23 AM