Crime & Safety
Speedy Crook Gets Away With Woman's iPhone 4: Police Blotter
Also: crook nabs woman's gold chain but doesn't make it far with the goods.

This blotter was compiled using information provided by the New York Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A roundup of crime in the area:
At 5:46 p.m. on June 26, a 41-year-old woman entered the subway station at Lafayette and Washington avenues. She was purchasing a metro card from a MTA machine when someone approached her from behind and snatched her yellow metal chain, worth $250. The perp fled onto the street and the woman chased him. The chain was found at the Classon Avenue G train line.
At 1:36 p.m. on June 28, a 24-year-old woman's iPhone 4 was snatched from her hand on Fulton and South Oxford streets. The perp fled toward Lafayette Avenue from South Oxford Street and ran west down Lafayette Avenue.
At 6 p.m. on June 28, a 46-year-old woman realized her HTC Evo cellphone was missing from her bag when she returned to her Lafayette Avenue home. She told police she had last used the phone while she was on the bus. When she exited the bus at Grand and Lafayette Avenues, a man bumped into her. There is no tracker on the phone.
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