60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Poppin’ off
A gunman shot a woman as she
was crossing Neptune Avenue on
Feb. 21.
The victim told police that she
heard a pop when crossing the
street near W. 33rd Street at around
1:09 am, and quickly realized she
had been shot in the leg.
Paramedics rushed the victim to
Lutheran Hospital for treatment of
non-fatal injuries, according to police
reports.
Five Guys
Five brutes attacked and slashed
a man on Surf Avenue on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that he got
into an argument with the baddies
at the intersection of W. 30th Street
at around 2:50 am, when the bruisers
took out a knife and slashed the
back of his head.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Lutheran Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports.
Ghosted
A savage slashed a man in the
head and hand in a Neptune Avenue
parking lot on Feb. 20.
The victim told police that the
slasher attacked him unprovoked
near W. 33rd Street at around 1 am,
before running off without taking
his property.
—Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Punch-drunk shove
Three villains socked a man
and stole his phone outside a New
Utrecht bar on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that two of
the strangers lunged at him, punching
him repeatedly in the face, shoving
him to the ground, and kicking
him outside the pub by the corner of
Bay Ridge Parkway at 12:25 am, before
the lowlifes took the victim’s iPhone
X and wallet.
The victim suffered bruising to
his face and a bloody lip.
Bad friend
Police arrested a man for allegedly
slashing his roommate with a
knife on Bay 31st Street on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that he got
into an argument with his roommate
while drinking inside their
apartment on the corner of Bath Avenue
at 10 pm, when the suspect allegedly
slashed the victim twice in
the head.
The roommate ran out of the
house, and paramedics took the
victim to Coney Island Hospital for
treatment, according to police.
COURIER L 8 IFE, FEB. 26-MAR. 4, 2021
Teenager shot at
Canarsie Popeye’s
Police seal off the Popeye’s in Canarsie where a 16-year-old boy was found shot on
Feb. 23. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Bike bandit
A thief stole a motorbike from a
74th Street garage on Feb. 15.
The victim told police that the
burglar broke into his private garage
near the corner of 14th Avenue
at around 4:40 am and snagged the
$4,000 bike.
Cash ‘n’ dash
Two burglars stole $5,500 from a
bagel store on 17th Avenue on Feb.
16.
An employee told police that the
thieves pried open the rear door
of the eatery near 79th Street at
around 5:15 am and snatched $2,500
from the register and $3,000 from
the ATM.
The pair stole the security footage
as well, although cameras behind
the store captured the goodfor
nothings leaving the location,
according to police reports.
Makeup menace
A sneak thief stole nearly $2,000
worth of makeup from a 18th Avenue
store on Feb. 12.
An employee told police that the
pilferer nabbed $1,916 worth of products
from the beauty aisle of the department
store on the corner of 64th
Street at noon before quietly running
off without paying.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
He’s been Hoyt!
A group of goons beat up a guy at
the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station
on Feb. 15.
The victim told police that three
brutes jumped him unprovoked
while waiting for the A-train at 9:25
am, kicking him while he lay on the
ground.
Paramedics brought the man to
Methodist Hospital for treatment of
cuts and a bruised face.
Teen trouble
Cops cuffed four teenage boys for
allegedly attempting to rob a delivery
cyclist on Henry Street on Feb. 16.
The victim told police that the suspects
surrounded him between Remsen
and Joralemon streets just before
7:30 pm, allegedly intimidating him
while trying to steal his belongings.
Cops caught up with the youngsters,
who were all between 16 and
18 years old, and arrested them on
felony robbery charges, cops said.
Money machine
Two thieves looted a Willoughby
Street diner on the night of Feb. 15.
The victim told police that the
bandits busted the glass door of the
eatery near Bridge Street at 4:20 am
and carried out an ATM.
Overnight raid
A raider ransacked a Smith
Street commercial building on the
night of Feb. 16.
The victims told police that the
invader bagged a bunch of credit and
debit cards along with a construction
site measuring device at Livingston
Street between 7:30 pm and
8 am the next day, stealing the items
valued at a total of almost $3,500.
Nordstrom racket!
Police arrested a Fulton Mall department
store worker for allegedly
stealing more than $2,000 from her
employer on Feb. 16.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly clocked bogus returns
for merchandise at the store
near Bridge Street at 4:20 pm and
used the funds for gift cards totaling
$2,028.
Cops cuffed the 21-year-old on felony
grand larceny charges on Feb.
20 at the store, police said.
Take out!
Bike bandits nabbed a deliveryman’s
two-wheeler on Columbia
Place on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that he left
his bicycle to deliver food between
State Street and Bridge Park Drive at
6:40 pm but when he came back fi ve
minutes later, the bike was gone.
— Kevin Duggan
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Cops in Canarsie are investigating
the shooting of a 16-yearold
who was found wounded at
a Popeye’s restaurant on the
morning of Feb. 24.
The teenage boy, who took a
bullet to his chest, collapsed at
the fast food joint located at the
corner of Flatlands Avenue and
E. 82nd Street at about 11:14 am
on Feb. 23.
Paramedics removed him to
Brookdale University Hospital,
where he’s listed in stable condition.
At this point in the investigation,
police did not establish
a possible motive for the shooting,
or a description of the suspect
involved
No arrests have been and the
investigation remains ongoing,
according to an NYPD rep.