Police Beat: Wall and South St. a Theft Corner for Motorcycles

By Matt Dunning
POSTED OCTOBER 7, 2008

If you own a motorcycle, you’d be well advised not to park it on Wall Street, where investment banks and consumer confidence weren’t the only things disappearing last month.

Police recorded three separate motorcycle thefts from the same intersection in September. Reports indicated that the recent string of boosted bikes may all be connected.

According to reports, three motorcycles were taken from the intersection of Wall and South Streets between Sept. 7 and Sept. 15, between 6 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. All three motorcycles were Japanese-made racing bikes. A green minivan may have been involved in the thefts, reports indicated.

On June 12, a 21-year-old man was arrested while driving a stolen minivan with a stolen motorcycle in the back. The motorcycle was stolen from outside 110 Wall St., less than a block from where the string of thefts was reported. Police have not connected any of the recent incidents to the earlier theft.

144 Fulton
9/3...4 p.m.
The owner of a dry cleaner reported that someone stole three air conditioners worth a total of $10,000 off the second-story roof of his building.

130 Church
9/5...8:33 a.m.
A Chappaqua man told police a clerk at Dunkin’ Donuts accidentally gave his credit card to another customer, but the customer denied having the card and left the store. The victim said $1,070 in charges had already been made by the time he called to cancel the card.

Canal & Church
9/8...12:45 a.m.
A New Jersey man was walking along Canal Street when an unknown suspect ran up behind him and grabbed the passport out of his hand. The victim told police he chased the suspect down Church Street, but lost him when he turned the corner onto Lispenard.

200 Murray
9/9...3:30 p.m.
A member of the construction crew working on the new Goldman Sachs tower reported that someone stole the control box for one of the scissor lifts on the site, worth about $1,500. The box had been used earlier in the day, and was left in an area of the site open to all construction workers. No suspects have been identified.

Pearl & Maiden Lane
9/10...3:46 p.m.
A Long Island man filed an assault complaint against one of his co-workers, claiming that the co-worker threw his work helmet and a suction cup at his head, leaving a visible injury. The victim said his attacker threatened him and his son several times before assaulting him. Police did not say what provoked the attack.

68 Leonard
9/14...2 a.m.
A 20-year-old man was arrested after assaulting an auxiliary police officer who was trying to write his friend a ticket. The assailant was charged with felony assault and possession of marijuana. The officer was transported to St. Vincent’s Hospital with a laceration on the right side of his head.

97 Chambers
9/15...3:58 p.m.
A 56-year-old woman from Harlem said someone bumped into her and took a wallet out of her purse while she was in the check-out line at Lot-Less. The suspect fled out the back door of the store onto Reade Street.

54 Walker
9/17...8:40 p.m.
Police raided a reputed S&M club, seizing payroll records, arresting its owner and closing the club for the forseeable future. Two days earlier, undercover police arrested one of the club’s employees on prostitution charges.

80 N. Moore
9/17...9 p.m.
A police officer was nearly struck in the head by a falling flower pot outside Independence Plaza. The officer was having a conversation with a local resident when the pot shattered on the sidewalk, just a few feet from where he was standing. Later that night, witnesses said a second flower pot fell from the building, near the same spot as the first. Police said they believe both pots were intentionally dropped from somewhere between the 26th and 39th floors. Police are investigating.

29 John
9/26...8 a.m.
An employee of a jewelry and tailoring shop said that he arrived at work to find the roll-down security gate cut and the front window broken. The thieves took $7,250 in jewelry.

132 Duane
9/26...11 p.m.
A 41-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife with a book. The victim, 51, told police she was arguing with her husband when he pulled a book off of a shelf and hit her in the back of the head with it, causing bruising and swelling.

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