Crime & Safety

Woman Groped on Eastern Parkway: Reports From the 77th Precinct

Double Halloween purse swipes and a scooter stolen.

 

The following reports were supplied by the 77th Precinct of the NYPD. They do not indicate a conviction.  

 

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Woman Groped on Eastern Parkway

A 28-year-old woman was walking toward Grand Army Plaza on Eastern Parkway on Nov. 12 at 12:20 p.m. when someone came up behind her, grabbed her breast. The perpetrator ran away when the woman screamed for help. She had no injuries.

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Halloween Purse Swipes 

Two purses were nabbed on Halloween from Halloween revelers.

A 24-year-old woman reported that someone snatched her bag from a hook at the bar at Barboncino on Franklin Avenue between St. Johns and Lincoln places around 9:30 p.m. She lost $306 worth of property including a wallet and cell phone.

Then, at about midnight, someone snatched a bag at a bar on Washington Avenue between Prospect and Park places from another 24-year-old woman, who said the bag was right beside her. She lost $1,005 worth of property including a necklace, iPod, cell phone, video camera and wallet.

 

Scooter Theft

A 29-year-old man reported that his 2003 Honda scooter worth $5,500 was stolen from the street on Washington Avenue between Bergen and St. Marks on Nov. 3 between 5 and 9 p.m.


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