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August 25, 2011
The Week in Crime: Police Urge Extra Vigilance
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]
by Liza Eckert
The local police are warning that lately, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill are like Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal malls — you could be a crime victim at any moment.
A spokesman for the 88th Precinct also asked us to alert residents to a couple of worrying crime trends. A spike in robberies, including several involving iPhones, prompted police to ask residents to be extra careful.
“Especially after dark, we’d like to ask them to refrain from using their expensive electronic items in public,” said a spokesman for the 88th Precinct.
...Larceny at Marshall’s
-A 37-year-old woman set her bag down next to her stroller in Marshall’s on Atlantic Avenue around 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 15 while she walked away to look at some clothes. When she returned, the bag, containing passports, Medicaid cards, money orders and social security cards, was gone.
Posted by eric at August 25, 2011 6:14 PM