A car thief caught by cops trying to boost a Honda and a Jeep at a Brooklyn mall parking lot escaped authorities by diving into the creek behind the building, police said Saturday.
A woman sidekick with the car thief wasn’t so lucky and was collared by cops during the harried chase inside the Kings Plaza parking lot at 11:50 p.m. Friday.
A security guard monitoring the parking lot saw the couple casing cars in the Flatbush Ave. lot near Avenue U in Mill Basin and called police.
Arriving officers spotted the pair and quickly grabbed the woman, identified as 22-year-old Carlyne Hyacinthe.
The man she was with sprinted off to the eastern side of the lot and plunged into the Mill Basin Inlet, cops said.
Cops and firefighters searched the water and the shoreline, but the suspected car thief had vanished.
FILE – An FDNY boat is pictured in the Mill Basin Inlet next to the parking structure of Kings Plaza Mall in Brooklyn in 2018. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
The two had already broken into a Honda and were trying to get into a Jeep when cops arrived, police said. Hyacinthe had a pocket knife on her, as well as a key fob reprogrammer, which would allow the thieves to turn on the vehicle’s engine.
Cops charged Hyacinthe with car theft, possession of burglar’s tools, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal trespass and weapons possession.
Her arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Saturday.