Archive | Police Blotter RSS feed for this section

84th Precinct Community Council Meeting Tuesday Evening

Captain Maximo Tolentino, Commander of the 84th Precinct, has announced a meeting of the precinct’s Community Council this Tuesday evening, May 21, starting at 7:00 p.m., in Geraldo’s Room (named for Brooklyn Law alum Geraldo Rivera), Brooklyn Law School, 205 State Street (between Court Street and Boerum Place). On the agenda will be presentation of [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Brooklyn Federal Courthouse Target of Second “Anthrax” Letter

Lightning is said not to strike the same place twice, but the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse, at Tillary Street and Cadman Plaza East, has twice this month received envelopes containing white powder. According to the Daily News, the second envelope arrived Wednesday afternoon and white powder came out after a courthouse employee opened it in a [...]

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

84th Precinct Police Blotter – 5/8/13

The days are getting longer but the perps are getting brazen-er. It’s this week’s blotter.

Read full story · Comments { 16 }

Brooklyn Federal Court Evacuated Due to Suspicious White Powder

@NYScanner reports: 225 Cadman Plaza NYPD on scene investigating a suspicious white powder found at the Federal court building. Update after the jump.

Read full story · Comments { 5 }

Brooklyn Bridge Would-Be Jumper

The Brooklyn Bridge is shut down in both directions Saturday afternoon as police report the presence of a jumper. A BHB reader reported talking to police while stranded in a cab on the bridge, and confirmed that cops are trying to talk down a man spotted pacing back and forth on the Manhattan tower of the bridge. Update: The man was talked down by NYPD.

Read full story · Comments { 14 }

84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/30/13

The weather reports are great, but the police reports continue. It’s this week’s blotter.

Read full story · Comments { 9 }

84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/24/13

Another robbery at Macy’s, another sleeping straphanger loses his iPod, and Planet Fitness is now 0-4. It’s this week’s blotter.

Read full story · Comments { 7 }

84th Precinct Police Blotter – 4/17/13

Hey there, it’s the “better late than never” edition of this week’s dispatches from the 84. Since I’m already behind schedule I’ll cut to the chase. Two straphangers had their iPhones stolen while slumbering on the subway–the first happened last Friday at approximately 4:30 a.m. on a northbound F train; cops cuffed a 20-year-old who [...]

Read full story · Comments { 6 }

Have You Seen Matilda?

The NYPD has issued a missing person alert for 80-year-old Matilda Melenciano who was last seen Sunday at her residence on Pierrepont Street. Matilda is hispanic, 5 feet tall, and weighs 100 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS or visit the Crime Stoppers website.  

Read full story · Comments { 0 }

Accident At Cranberry And Hicks Streets In Brooklyn Heights

This dispatch just in from a BHB reader:

[Accident at] corner of Cranberry and Hicks. Woman full on ran stop sign. Truck plowed into her. Most horrendous noise ever. Thank god no one injured.

Read full story · Comments { 1 }