Jan 8, 2015 2 min read blotter

Crime Blotter: Credit Card Thieves Went Nuts Over The Holidays

Here’s our roundup of some of the crime reports that happened in and around Bensonhurst in the last two weeks, courtesy of the NYPD’s 62nd Precinct.

With the holidays behind us and 2015 in full swing, many of us are finally checking out the damage done on our credit cards. Well, it seems some folks in our neighborhood found more damage than they anticipated. For one reason or another, many of our neighbors dealt with unauthorized charges on their credit and debit cards this season.

A 30-year-old woman told police that her boyfriend forgot to lock her car door overnight on December 22, and someone broke in, stealing her credit card and debit card.

On December 23, a 58-year-old man reported that someone had requested a new copy of his American Express card, and changed the phone number and address linked to the account, cops said. He found $48,000 in charges from a Target in Brooklyn.

A 29-year-old woman found $9,999 in charges on her GAP Visa card on December 29, Police said. Two charges were made at a Target in Flushing, Queens and one was made at a Target in Westbury, New York, though she was still in possession of the card. Needless to say, she cancelled it immediately.

On Christmas Eve, a 58-year-old woman got the worst kind of gift – a phone call from Astoria Bank notifying her that two unauthorized transactions were made on her debit card totaling $228. Cops said the debit card was in her possession the whole time.

Another sad Christmas story: On December 24, a 35-year-old man boarded the Manhattan-bound N train at 36th Street, en route to Port Authority. He told the police he must have fallen asleep around 34th Street in Manhattan, because he was woken up by the train operator at 5:50am the next morning at the Kings Highway stop in Brooklyn. His wallet had been cut out of his pocket, along with $272 in cash, his credit cards, and his social security card, cops said.

On New Year’s Eve, a 61-year-old woman found $24,986 cash advance charged on her credit card, according to the police report. She had been in possession of the card the entire time and quickly destroyed it. Not a fun way to ring in the new year at all.