60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Smacked
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
beating and robbing a man on
Ocean Parkway on Sept. 26.
The victim told police that the
suspect punched him in the head
near Brighton Avenue at 5:20 pm,
before making off with his phone.
Hats off
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
beating a teenager and stealing his
hat on W. Brighton Ave. on Sept. 26.
The victim, 14, told police the
bruiser punched him in the face
near W. Second Street at 5 pm, before
fl eeing with his lid and other
personal items, police said.
Ransacked
Some thieves stole $54,800 worth
of luxury goods from a Bay 44th St.
home on Sept. 27.
The victim told police the burglars
allegedly entered his home
near 27th Avenue through a window
at 7 pm, when he snagged furs, jewelry,
and designer goods.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Robbed!
Two goons looted $5,000 from an
Avenue U store on Sept. 24.
The victim told police they were
behind the counter when the perps
wearing gloves and face mask entered
the store near E. 16th Street
through the back door at 10:30 pm,
when they snatched the cash and
fl ed, cops said.
Looted
Some home invader stole a woman’s
duffl e bag from an Avenue W
apartment on Sept. 25.
The victim told police she was in
the bedroom of her apartment near
E. Third Street at 12:50 pm, when
the crook grabbed a duffl e bag with
her laptop charger and ran into the
lobby, police said.
The victim followed the goon into
the lobby and demanded her property
back, and the perp returned it
before fl eeing, cops said.
— Chandler Kidd
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Con artist
A woman sent a hoaxer $27,900
after he said she was under investigation
for money laundering on
Sept. 22.
The victim, who lives on Bay
Ridge Parkway between 20th and
21st avenues, told police that the
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scam artist called her at 1:22 pm,
claiming he was a Chinese policeman
who needed to track and verify
her money because she was
suspected of money laundering.
She transferred the money from a
nearby bank, even after employees
told her three times that the call
was a scam, police reported.
Teen terrors
Three teenagers threatened a
13-year-old with a knife and swiped
his cellphone on W. Seventh Street
on Sept. 24.
The victim told cops that the
14-year-old delinquents approached
him as he exited the subway at W.
Seventh Street and Avenue U at 2:45
pm, and said “Run your sh--,” while
whipping out a knife. The victim
gave the robbers his iPhone X and
his bag, before they fl eeing, cops
said.
Bottled up rage
A 21-year-old man threw a cologne
bottle at his relative’s head on
20th Avenue on Sept. 24.
The 24-year-old victim told cops
that his angry family member
threw the glass bottle at him following
a dispute between 20th and 21st
Avenues at 9:12 pm, causing laceration
above the victim’s left ear.
Violent attack
Two ruffi ans attacked a woman
while she was getting off the bus at
Bay Parkway on Sept. 27.
The victim told police that the
two women punched her in the back
of the head as she exited the bus on
86th Street at 1:30 pm and kicked
her in the stomach, trying unsuccessfully
to take her phone.
— Rose Adams
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MARINE PARK —MILL BASIN—FLATLANDS—
BERGEN BEACH
Bad employee
An employee looted the safe at
his Avenue L workplace on Sept. 27.
A store manager told police that
the disgruntled employee nabbed
$1,500 from the business near Nostrand
Ave. at midnight before fl eeing
out the back door.
Flatbush fi lcher
A home invader snatched $22,500
worth of ill-gotten goods from an E.
31st Street apartment on Sept. 27.
The victim told police that bandit
broke into the vacant apartment
near Snyder Avenue between 10:30
am and 2 pm and stole money, a laptop,
and other possessions.
Parked car purloiner
A pilferer plundered a parked
car on E. 52nd Street on Sept. 26.
The victim told police that he
returned to his car near Glenwood
Road at 6:40 am, and found the
driver’s side window smashed, and
$1,606 worth of items missing.
— Chandler Kidd
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Batter’s up
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
threatening a woman with a baseball
bat on Wyckoff Street on Sept.
24.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly waved a baseball
bat in her direction in a threatening
manner near Third Avenue at
around 2 pm.
Police arrested the man later
that day on misdemeanor menacing
charges, according to police reports.
Drug busted
Police arrested a man for alleged
possession of drug paraphernalia
on Fourth Avenue on Sept. 24.
Patrolling offi cers stopped the
bicycle-riding suspect for recklessly
riding on the sidewalk near First
Street at 10 PM, before searching
his pockets an allegedly fi nding a
crack pipe.
Police arrested the man for misdemeanor
charges of criminal possession
of a controlled substance,
according to police reports.
Park puncher
A bruiser assaulted a man in a
Dean Street playground on Sept. 27.
The victim told police that the
brute hit him in the park between
Sixth and Carlton avenues at around
3 pm.
The victim later became uncooperative
with police, and refused
to provide a description of his attacker.
Not-for-rent
A joker listed a woman’s Lincoln
Place home for rent on craigslist on
Sept. 16.
The victim told police that two
men rang her doorbell asking tour
the home between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at 1 pm on Sept. 22,
when she discovered the fraudulent
online-listing.
Checked out
A lout assaulted a library worker
on Fourth Avenue on Sept. 21.
The victim told police that he
asked the crook to leave the bookrental
establishment near Pacifi c
Street at 4 pm when the villain
shoved him and spit on him.
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SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Gun goons
Cops arrested four suspects for
an alleged armed robbery on 46th
Street on Sept. 26.
The victim told police that he
was sitting in his parked car between
Fifth and Sixth avenues at
1:30 am when the suspects allegedly
approached brandishing fi rearms,
before one of the men entered the
car and stole cash and various electronics.
Police located the suspects later
that night and arrested them on felony
charges of robbery and weapons
possession, according to police
reports.
Highway robbers
Three knee-wilding ruffi ans
robbed a man on Fourth Avenues
on Sept. 28.
The victim told police that he was
forced to pull his car to the side of the
road because of a fl at tire near 38th
Street at 3 am, when the savages approached
with knifes, before forcing
the victim into the back of his car
and making off with $700 in cash.
Child abuse
A scumbag hit a child with a belt
in their 50th Street home on Sept.
27.
The boy’s mother told police that
the sleaze repeatedly hit the child
and pulled his hair near Seventh
Avenue at 7 pm.
Car2Go to jail
Cops cuffed two suspects for allegedly
stealing a rental car on
Sixth Avenue on Sept. 26.
Patrolling offi cers found the two
men parked in a stolen Car2Go at
bus stop near 49th Street at 10 pm.
Police arrested the men on felony
grand larceny charges, according to
police reports.
— Aidan Graham