Crime Blotter: Jewelry Thief, Midnight Creeper, Gift Card Jackpot, And More From The 63rd Precinct

Here are the latest crimes that happened in the 63rd Precinct (Marine Park, Mill Basin, Flatlands, Bergen Beach):

Card Confusion

A woman’s debit card was used fraudulently used to at a Flatbush Avenue bank over the summer. The bank sent the woman a new card, but when she never received it, she went back to the bank. That is when they discovered someone recently withdrew $11,000 from a Kings Highway ATM, according to police.

Sleeper Creepers

A man woke up in the middle of the night to a nightmarish situation. On October 30, around 4am, the man woke to find a 24-year-old man hovering above him, rummaging through his belongings. The man broke into the Avenue N home near E 34 Street “looking for change,” according to police.

The victim held the burglar down until police came to arrest the trespasser.

Gift Card Gold Mine

A woman’s bag was stolen while she shopped at an Avenue U shopping center on October 30. She left her bag unattended for a brief moment while she looked around an accessory store near Flatbush Avenue, and that’s when the perp took the bag, which contained a cell phone and $6,000 worth of gift cards, according to police.

Pit-Stop Practice?

A man left his car parked on the corner of Avenue L and E 58 St overnight on October 27-28. Through the night, someone took all four wheel off of the car, according to police. He parked it there around 8pm on the 27th, and came back to find it tireless at around 6:30pm the next day, according to police.

Mysterious Jewelry Thievery

A man left his home, at Avenue U and E 57 Street, at around 3:15pm on October 29, and came back around an hour later to find that $38,000 worth of jewelry was stolen from his bedroom, according to police. Police found no signs of a break-in.

How’d nobody notice this?

A man left his car parked in a Ralph Avenue parking lot near East 66 Street, around 8:45pm while he went into an appliance store. When he came back an hour later, his back windshield was shattered and his laptop was missing, according to police.