61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Lazy looter
A wanna-be burglar attempted
to rob a W. Ninth Street home on
March 5.
Scurity camera footage shows
the knave trying to open the victim’s
car and enter the backyard shed
near the corner Lake Place around
2 pm, before fl eeing after fi nding the
car and the shed locked.
Bike bandit
A pilferer snagged a bicycle from
an E. 29th Street home on March 2.
The victim told police that the
baddie entered the unlocked garage
near Avenue S around 3 pm, and
stole the $2,500 two-wheeler.
Cafty crook
A bandit stole construction
equipment from a W. First Street
home on March 7.
The victim told police she returned
to her house at the corner
of Avenue X around 8:30 am to fi nd
$5,100 worth of power tools missing.
— Amalia Arms
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Breaking news
A pilferer swiped 30 newspapers
from a Court Street deli on March
9.
An employee told police that the
bandit snagged $80 worth of New
York Times and Daily News copies
from the unlocked delivery door at
the store between Dean and Bergen
street at 5:30 am.
Meathead
A thief stole $60 worth of meat
from a Court Street grocery store
on March 9.
An employee told police that the
burglar stuffed four packs of meat
into a duffl e bag before leaving the
store on the corner of Atlantic Avenue
at 10:10 pm.
Bike bandit
A looter nabbed a $950 bike from
a Verona Street house sometime between
March 1 and March 5.
The victim told police that the pirate
took the bike from his unlocked
vestibule between Dwight and Richards
street.
That’s nuts
Police arrested a man for a host
of alleged crimes, including stealing
pistachios from an Atlantic Avenue
supermarket on March 6.
Patrolling offi cers stopped the
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suspect as he was allegedly riding
his bike the wrong way on the Court
Street sidewalk at 10:10 pm, and realized
after an investigation that he
had an open arrest warrant.
When cops searched the man,
they allegedly found a crack pipe and
four stolen bags of pistachios — and
cuffed him on a host of charges.
— Rose Adams
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Shoulder shot
A gunman shot a man during a
botched robbery on Fifth Avenue on
March 9.
The victim told police that two
thieves brandished a back fi rearm
and demanded his money near 52nd
street at 12:10 am, but when the victim
tired to fi ght back, the gunman
shot him in the shoulder and fl ed.
First responders rushed the victim
to NYU Langone Hospital in stable
condition for treatment according
to police reports.
Overdrawn
Some scammer swindled $18,445
from a woman on 53rd Street on
March 8.
The victim told police that she
discovered that the sneak drained
her savings account from the bank
near Eighth Avenue at around
noon.
Mystery threats
A hoaxer extorted a man on Fifth
Avenue on March 2.
The victim told police that he received
messages at his home near
36th Street at around 5 pm saying
someone would kill his family if he
didn’t wire the scammers $800 —
which he did.
Ripped off
Some worm robbed a delivery
guy on Seventh Avenue on March 3.
The victim told police that he
was making deliveries to a bodega
near 40th Street at around 2:30 pm,
when the thief broke into his unlocked
van and stole $1,500 from the
glove department.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Grocery goon
A shoplifter made off with a
load of ill-gotten groceries from
a Third Street Whole Foods on
March 7.
A store employee told police that
the thief lifted $227 worth of food
from the grocer near Third Avenue
— including coconut water, food
from the hot bar, sushi rolls, and
smoked salmon.
Carjacked
A freebooter robbed a car on
Sterling Place on March 4.
The victim told police that the
pirate jacked $300 cash and a pair
of headphones from her car parked
near Sixth Avenue sometime between
3:30 pm and 5 pm.
Bye-cycle
Some villain stole a bike that was
left on Fifth Avenue.
The victim told police that he
locked his ride to a pole near Third
Street, but the jerk stole it before he
returned at around 5 am.
Booted
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing boots from a Flatbush
Avenue shopping mall on
March 7.
An employee told police that the
suspect allegedly tried on the $150
pair of kicks in the mall near Atlantic
Avenue at around 2:40 pm, before
putting his old shoes in the box and
attempting to fl ee.
Authorities arrived on the scene
cuffed the 54-year-old suspect on petit
larceny charges.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
What the brick!
An assailant attacked a man
with a brick on S. Elliott Place on
March 8.
The victim told police that the
wacko repeatedly struck him with
the block on his wrist and hip near
Dekalb Avenue at 10:10 am, before
threatening to shoot the victim
with a gun.
Crime delivery
Multiple gunmen ambushed a
deliveryman on Waverly Avenue on
March 5.
The victim told police that fi ve
gun-wielding knaves approached
near Dekalb and Lafayette avenues
at 8:30 pm and demanded that
he hand over cash — before fl eeing
with an ill-gotten $20 in cash.
Test-y drive
A scoffl aw stole a pricey bike
from a Flushing Avenue bike shop
on March 6.
The victim told police that the
weasel took a $6,000 two-wheeler for
a test drive from the store between
Vanderbilt and Clermont avenues at
around 1 pm, but pedaled off without
returning.
Pricey loot
A thief raided a man’s storage
unit at Grand Avenue between Feb.
12 and March 6.
The victim told police that the
swindler had grabbed a projector,
cables, computer accessories, and
other goods worth a total of more
than $9,000 from his locker near
Park Avenue.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Piped up!
A knife and pipe-wielding brute
attacked a man on Atlantic Avenue
on March 3.
The victim told police that the
rogue tried to stab him multiple
times between Third and Fourth avenues
at 12:35 pm, before grabbing a
metal rod and wacking him on the
arm.
Spring cleaning
A sneak thief looted a storage
unit on Gold Street between Feb. 19
and March 3.
The victim told police that the
fi lcher snagged jewelry, designer
clothes, pictures, and other items
from the building between Front
and York streets.
Snatched!
A brazen brigand snatched a
woman’s wallet on Cadman Plaza
West on March 7.
The victim told police that the
scoundrel grabbed her wallet near
Pierrepont Street at 2:20 pm and ran
off.
Perfume prowlers
Looters stole $17,000-worth of
perfumes from a Joralemon Street
beauty store during separate robberies
on March 7 and 8.
Witnesses told police that three
marauders bagged more than $7,000
worth of perfumes from the store
near Court Street at 7:20 pm, before
returning at 12:40 pm the next day
and snagging another $10,000-worth
of fragrances.
— Kevin Duggan