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January 4, 2012
The Week in Crime: Gun Crimes and a Harrowing Kidnapping
The Local [Fort Greene/Clinton Hill]
Used to be, you only had to worry about someone stealing your wallet or an employee borrowing your identity when you shopped in one of Bruce Ratner's Brooklyn malls. You can now add getting kidnapped to that list.
A 25-year-old woman was briefly kidnapped and then robbed by two scammers on Dec. 27, police said. The victim told police that she was outside the Atlantic Terminal Mall at around 2:30 p.m. when a woman approached and asked for directions to a post office. The victim agreed to drive with the woman to the postal station, but when she entered the car, she found a male accomplice beind the driver’s seat. “Get in and look happy,” the man allegedly told her.
The trio then drove to the victim’s residence, where the woman thief ordered the victim, “Give me your stuff.” It’s unclear how much she got, but when both women returned to the car, the man allegedly demanded, “What else do you have?” That’s when the victim handed over $470 more and exited the car near Flatbush and Fourth Avenues, police said.
Posted by eric at January 4, 2012 11:43 AM