Crime & Safety

Crook Swipes Photog's Camera: This Week's Police Blotter

Incident occurred at Barclays Center on March 3.

This blotter was compiled using information provided by the New York Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction. 

 

A quick-handed crook stole a man’s camera from a suite in Barclays Center sometime between March 3 and 4.

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The 30-year-old victim told police that he was in a private suite at Barclays Center when he placed his Canon camera and lens on a chair in the back of the room. He walked to the front of the room to watch the show at around 11 p.m. When he went to grab his camera at around 12:01 a.m. March 4, it was gone. The crook got away with the victim’s Canon T1-I camera and a Canon 45mm lens, worth a total of $1,950.

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