Manhattan
A chatty thief stole $ 16,500 worth of jewelry from a store at the South Street Seaport.
He walked into Seaport Jewelers on Fulton Street at 1:30 p.m. Friday and asked to try on an $ 8,300 ring, law- enforcement sources said.
He casually told the clerk of being in town to attend Nets NBA playoff contests in Brooklyn.
The thief, believed to be in his 20s, said he was considering buying the platinum band with a diamond — but then fled with two unpaid-for rings, the sources said.
He sped off in a Chevrolet Cruze, sources added.
The man, sporting a goatee, was last seen wearing a dark-blue baseball cap, gray jeans and a waist-length black jacket.
A thief sneaked into a Soho bakery and stole the backpack of an employee, police sources said.
The robber entered Once Upon a Tart at 1:15 p.m. Monday, sneaked into a private employee dressing room and walked out with the bag, which contained a credit card, a wallet and $ 100, cops added.
A suspect was busted in the theft of $ 2,500 worth of sneakers from a high-end Soho store, police sources said.
Kevin Williams, 24, of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, walked into Balenciaga on Mercer Street at 2:30 p.m. on April 4 and used a bogus American Express gift card to buy four pairs of sneaks at $ 600 each, sources said.
After the suspect left the store, AmEx rejected the charges and reported the fraud. Cops reviewed video footage to identify the suspect.
Cops are looking for the young thug who bashed a bodega worker in the arm with a skateboard as five punks tried to flee the lower Manhattan store with stolen candy, sources said.
The thieves walked into the deli on Broadway near Thomas Street at 3:30 p.m. Monday, grabbed items and walked toward the door, sources said, with one jerk knocking over a fruit display.
When a 28-year-old worker tried to stop the five, one smacked him on the arm with his board.
Brooklyn
Cops released the photo above of the suspected ID thief who has allegedly used physician and patient information to obtain bogus painkiller prescriptions from pharmacies in and around Sheepshead Bay.
The thief began using the identity of a patient in the drugstore scam on Dec. 5, cops said.
As well as the Brooklyn capers, he was caught on camera picking up more drugs at AJ’s Village Chemist in Middle Village, Queens, on Feb. 19, police said.
An NYPD janitor thought she could get a five-finger discount by exiting a Target in Kensington with nearly $ 150 worth of unpaid-for nail-polish products, said law- enforcement authorities.
Stacey Mathison, 40, was at the store on Nostrand Avenue near East 31st Street at 5:45 p.m. Saturday when she pocketed nail polish, nail art, polish remover and a pricey nail top coat from the cosmetics aisle and tried to flee, said arresting officers.
Queens
Police released the sketch above of a would-be kidnapper who tried to snatch a teen off a street in College Point, authorities said.
The creep drove his dark gray, four-door sedan up to the 18-year-old and offered her a ride as she walked along 25th Avenue near 126th Street at 12:15 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
When the girl refused, the man parked his car near 124th Street, grabbed her around her waist, put his hand over her mouth and and dragged her toward the vehicle shouting, “Get in the car!” police sources said.
The woman fought back, foiling the abduction, cops said.
The predator fled in his car.
Police said the man is in his early 30s and about 5-foot-6, and was wearing a blue, short-sleeved shirt.
