88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE—CLINTON HILL
Tip jar tipped over
A man allegedly lifted money
from a Myrtle Avenue bodega on
Feb. 13.
The victim told police that the
suspect picked $3 out of the tip jar
on the counter at the bodega at the
corner of Ryerson Street at 5:25 am,
then allegedly threatened the cashier
with a screwdriver while demanding
more money, before breaking
a glass door and smashing a
window with a planter.
Offi cers arrested the suspected
thief on the scene and transported
him to a hospital to treat existing injuries,
according to police reports.
Myrtle ave worm
A worm robbed a man on Myrtle
Avenue on Feb. 13.
The victim told police that a
stranger bumped into his shoulder,
started arguing with him, and
then punched him in the face and
pushed him to the ground near
Vanderbilt Avenue at 4:30 pm. Once
he was down, the jerk reached into
his jacket pocket and stole cash and
a money order.
Bleach attack
Someone threw bleach on a resident
at the Tillary Street Women’s
Shelter on Feb. 8.
The victim told police that the
assailant threw a whole bottle of
bleach at the victim.
Lock step
A suspect allegedly hit someone
on the head with a combination lock
at the Tillary Street Women’s Shelter
in the early hours of Feb. 9.
The victim told police that she
asked her roommate to turn off
the light in the room at about 1 am,
but the woman became angry and
swung the lock at her head, leaving
her with a laceration and pain.
Cops showed up and arrested the
woman on the scene, cops said.
Walking cane crime
A suspect allegedly hit a stranger
with a walking cane on Vanderbilt
Avenue on Feb. 12.
The victim told police that the
man hit her hard with the cane near
Park Avenue at about 4 pm, causing
large cuts to her face and breaking
her left arm.
EMS workers rushed the victim
to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn
Methodist Hospital for treatment,
and police arrested her alleged attacker
on the scene.
Eatery evil-doer
A fi lcher looted a Dekalb Avenue
restaurant on Feb. 6.
The victim told police that the
sneak forced open the side door of
COURIER LIFE, F 8 EBRUARY 18-24, 2022
Driver mows down and kills
teen on Kings Highway
The driver of a BMW sedan fatally struck a 17-year-old boy at Kings Highway and
Avenue K in Flatlands. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Evelina restaurant near Adelphi
Street at about 3:30 am and picked
up a Macbook laptop, a gym bag, a
social security card, and bottles of liquor,
all in all worth just over $1,000.
Bank account siphoning
A suspect spent more than a year
allegedly taking money from her
employer’s bank account.
The employer told police that, between
December 2020 and May 2021
the rogue worker repeatedly dipped
into money belonging to Ridgewood
Savings Bank on Fulton Street.
Police arrested the employee on
petit larceny charges.
Not gucci!
A selection of designer items
were stolen from a Monument Walk
apartment between Feb. 4 and Feb. 8.
The victim told police that she
left the apartment near Park Avenue
late on Feb. 4 and realized when
she walked back in just after midnight
on Feb. 8 that someone had
stolen her Gucci bags and slippers,
as well as clothes, makeup, and a
suitcase, presumably to pack everything
up in.
There were no signs of break-in,
but the victim couldn’t remember
whether or not she had locked the
door before heading out.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
6OTH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Playing dead
A bruiser choked a maintenance
employee at a Cropsey Avenue
building on Feb. 8.
The victim told police that he entered
the building between Bay 43rd
and Bay 44th streets to fi nd the man
laying on the ground just before
midnight and asked him to leave,
but the suspect became irate and attacked
him.
Doggy door
An employee arrived at his company
trailer on W. 23rd Street to
fi nd his company-issued laptop and
backpack missing on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that
the door of the trailer between
Mermaid and Surf avenues was
pulled out at the bottom to allow
the thief inside, and when
the victim arrived, he found his
items missing.
Ignition (remix)
A duo of carjackers stole a vehicle
that was left parked on Brighton
Fourth Terrace with the keys in the
ignition on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that the
two highwaymen jumped into
the parked car between Brighton
Fourth and Brighton Sixth streets
and drove away, after he left it there
at around 8 pm.
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Mystery Stabber
A savage stabbed another man
fi ve times on the subway platform at
63rd Street after a dispute on Feb. 8.
The victim was uncooperative
with the police who responded at the
platform at the intersection of 20th
Street just before 1 am and found
the man with fi ve stab wounds on
his left side.
Smooth lock picker
A thief swiped jewelry and a
spare car key from a safe in a Shore
Boulevard home sometime between
September and Feb. 13.
The victim told police that she
opened her safe at her home at the
intersection of Oxford Street to fi nd
the valuables missing at around 9
am and hasn’t seen them since September.
—Jessica Parks
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A driver fatally struck a teenage
boy on Kings Highway in Flatlands,
Brooklyn on the evening of
Feb. 12 according to police.
Terah Saucier, 17, was crossing
the busy road less than a block
away from his home at the intersection
of Avenue K at 7 pm, when
a 19-year-old male driver of a BMW
sedan heading west slammed into
him.
Paramedics found Saucier lying
in the roadway with severe injuries
and brought him to Kings
County Hospital where doctors
pronounced him dead.
The driver stayed on the scene
and police are investigating the
incident, however, cops have not
made any arrests yet, according to
an NYPD spokesman.
Photos from the scene show the
car’s front window smashed in on
the driver’s side. The vehicle did
not have a front license plate and
instead had a plate from a New Jersey
used car dealer.
At the intersection of Avenue K
and the busy Kings Highway there
have been eight serious crashes injuring
12 people since 2011, according
to NYC Crash Mapper.
The complex southern Brooklyn
junction has cars also crossing
from Troy Avenue and the Department
of Transportation in recent
years added painted pedestrian
medians lined with plastic fl appers
to break up the long crosswalk
traversing Kings Highway
and calm traffi c.