Petty Larceny: She steals shrimp, by the straw sack
Plenty of cocktail sauce at home and nothing to put it on might provide at least a partial explanation as to why a 47-year-old woman attempted to walk out of Whole Foods (250 Seventh Ave., at W. 24th St.) with $80 worth of shrimp. The lowly thief with high-end tastes was arrested by responding officers, after she was caught exiting the store with her day’s catch tucked away inside a straw handbag. This fishy situation surfaced just before 8:30 p.m. on Sat., Sept. 6. Earlier, at around 2:40 p.m., a 27-year-old man found himself in cuffs and physically incapable of using a spoon to further corrupt the integrity of some ice cream (valued at $5), which he was observed taking from the shelf and placing into a bag, then attempting to remove from a 7-Eleven on the 500 block of W. 42nd St.
Resisting Arrest: A tumultuous time on Tenth
Save those moves for the dance floor, buddy. A 23-year-old man was arrested just before midnight, on Thurs., Sept. 4, after police observed him standing in the middle of the street, opposite the Marquee nightclub (289 10th Ave., btw. 26th & 27th Sts.). Acting in a “violent and tumultuous manner,” the man was approached, then asked to provide ID. He refused and became uncooperative — at which time the arresting officer attempted to place him in handcuffs. His technique of resisting arrest (flailing his arms) was ultimately ineffective.
Petty Larceny: Stolen from scaffolding, despite the steel
Strong binding material had a weak effect on preventing thieves from making off with two bikes, on Fri., Sept. 5. The first incident took place some time between noon and 5 p.m. The latter time is when a 54-year-old victim told police she first noticed that her Gazelle brand bike, a Dutch piece of work valued at $800, was no longer at Seventh Ave. & 28th St. — where she had chained it to scaffolding, using a sturdy chain. Steel cable also proved no match just a few blocks away — when, at 3:45 p.m., a 49-year-old male locked his Schwinn (valued at $250) onto scaffolding at the northwest corner of Ninth Ave. & W. 15th St. When he returned almost five hours later, the bike was gone. Canvassing the area, a stranger told him that a man in a suit cut the lock and took the bike.
—Scott Stiffler
