60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Roughed up
Three scallywags robbed a food
delivery worker on W.35th Street on
Nov. 30.
The victim told police that he
was delivering food to an apartment
building near Surf Avenue at 11:30
pm when the group approached
him with a knife, pushed him to the
ground, and swiped $300 from his
front pocket.
Purse snatcher
A rapscallion violently robbed a
woman on Mermaid Avenue on Dec.
2.
The 16-year-old victim told police
that the perp tapped her on the
shoulder near W. 15th Street at 6:45
am, before nabbing her purse and
pepper spraying the victim.
Mugged!
A gun-toting bandit robbed a
man on Stillwell Avenue on Dec. 1.
The victim told police that the
villain pulled a gun on him near
Bay 47th Street at around 8 pm and
stole his wallet.
Cop puncher
Cops arrested a 16-year-old for
allegedly assaulting a police offi cer
on Stillwell Avenue.
Police were responding to a large,
disorderly group near Harway Avenue
at 2:58 pm when the teenager allegedly
punched a female cop in the
chest.
Offi cers cuffed the suspect and
charged the suspect with felony assault,
according to police reports.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE—CLINTON HILL
Restaurant robbery
A couple of punks broke into a
Myrtle Avenue restaurant on Nov.
28 and stole thousands of dollars in
cash and equipment.
An employee told police that the
two baddies broke the front door of
Castro’s Restaurant between Ryerson
Street and Grand Avenue
around 3 am, then tossed a brick
through the glass and stepped inside.
The sneaks then pulled out
and made off with register drawers
stuffed with cash and a black electric
bicycle.
Dubious break-in
An employee reporting for work
at a Myrtle Avenue restaurant on
the morning of Nov 28. was pretty
sure someone had broken into the
shop, but it’s not clear if anything
was stolen.
COURIER LIFE, D 8 ECEMBER 10-16, 2021
‘Madman’ takes school
bus on wild joyride
A man driving a stolen school bus crashed into seven parked cars and a homeless
shelter in East New York. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
A robber may have broken into
a Myrtle Avenue restaurant on the
morning of Nov 28.
An employee told police that he
reported for his shift at Soco, between
Ryerson Street and Grand
Avenue at 10am, and realized that
the front door had been broken open
and that the restaurant counter was
messy — but it wasn’t immediately
obvious what, if anything, had been
nabbed.
Leather loser
Some sneak thief whisked away
an expensive package from a Clinton
Avenue porch on Nov. 11.
The victim told police that the
swinder stole the package, containing
a more than $1,000 coat, that had
been delivered to the front door of
an apartment building near Lafayette
Avenue.
COVID un-relief
A jerk stole someone’s stateissued
pandemic relief funds to
make some big tech purchases last
month.
The victim told police that he
checked his statement on Nov. 23
and noticed two charges he hadn’t
made — both at Manhattan’s Fifth
Avenue Apple store, on Nov. 10 and
11, for a total of over $3,000.
Bad man at Wegman’s
A brazen purse-snatcher stole a
wallet from a woman’s purse while
she was grocery shopping at the
Flushing Avenue Wegman’s on Nov.
23.
The victim told police that the
cad lifted her wallet and put multiple
changes on her credit car at
around 4:30 pm.
Phone stolen
An unseen snake stole an iPhone
from a truck parked on Myrtle Avenue
on Nov. 26.
The victim told police that he left
his delivery truck parked between
Steuben Street and Emerson Place
for about a half hour at 4pm, with
his blue iPhone 13 charging inside.
When he fi nished his route, he returned
to the truck to fi nd that someone
had stolen the smartphone. He
was able to watch security footage
from a nearby camera, and watched
someone reach in to grab the phone
before running off.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Fired
An arsonist set fi re to an 18th Avenue
corner store on Nov. 20.
An employee told police that the
good-for-nothing let himself into the
store between 80th and 81st streets
at around 9:20 am, before setting
fi re to the store with lighter fl uid
and a match.
Hole in a wall
A thief broke into an 86th street
store through a hole in a wall on
Nov. 22.
An employee told police that the
lout broke a hole into the store between
Stillwell Avenue and W. 13th
Street from the property next door,
and exited at around 2:40 am with
ill-gotten goods.
Dine and dash
A carjacker stole someone’s car
parked at Mcdonald Avenue on Nov.
26.
The victim told police that they
were ordering food across the street
at the intersection of Kings Highway
at around 12:40 pm, but when he
came back to his car, it was gone.
—Jessica Parks
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
A man is in police custody after
taking a school bus on a destructive
joyride through Brooklyn the
afternoon of Dec. 2.
Police received a report of a
stolen school bus on the Brooklyn
side of the Jackie Robinson Parkway
just before 2 pm on Nov. 2,
at which time offi cers responded
and caught up to the perp, who authorities
would only identify as
an adult man. When offi cers attempted
to make an arrest, cops
say the suspect allegedly resisted
and fl ed onto the Jackie Robinson,
headed into Queens.
The culprit then turned around
and made his way back into Brooklyn,
where he struck multiple vehicles,
beginning with one outside
of 1738 East New York Ave. He also
careened into a homeless shelter
at the corner of Junius Street and
Atlantic Avenue.
“This was absolutely insane.
He was like a madman,” said a
worker at Roadway Collision Experts,
who witnessed the chaotic
scene. “The cops were trying to
stop him. They dragged a woman
out of the car as he hit a row of
cars.”
The suspect was fi nally apprehended
near the intersection of
George and Jamaica avenues, and
was taken into custody at the 75th
Precinct.
A total of seven cars were
struck, as well as one police car.
One person and one police offi cer
were transported to an area hospital
with minor injuries, according
to a Police Department spokesperson.
There were no children on the
bus at the time of the heist, according
to cops.
Additional reporting by Lloyd
Mitchell