84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Bitter ex
Cops arrested a man for an alleged
violent break-in at his ex-girlfriend’s
Nassau Street on Dec. 1.
The victim told police that her
former fl ame allegedly kicked down
the door of her apartment between
Gold and Navy streets at 3:40 pm,
and threatened to kill her, before
strangling her and biting her thumb
in a scuffl e.
Cops rushed to the scene and arrested
the man on felony assault
charges, according to police reports.
Busted!
Police arrested a man they say
raided a car on Schermerhorn
Street on Nov. 30.
The vehicle owner told police
that the suspect allegedly stole cash,
gold, diamond earrings, and Air-
Pods from the vehicle between Hoyt
and Bond streets at around 4:15 pm.
Police picked up the man at Sheffi
eld Avenue and Mary Warren
Place in East New York at 7:15 pm
and arrested him on felony grand
larceny charges, according to police
reports.
Golden and stolen
A shoplifter stole $12,000-worth
of jewelry from an Atlantic Avenue
boutique on Nov. 28.
The shopkeeper told police that
the bandit pretended to want to
buy gold rings and earrings from
the store at Hoyt Street at 3:30
pm before bolting with the shiny
goods while the worker was distracted.
Signed and snatched
Police are on the hunt for a package
thief who looted a Water Street
apartment building on Nov. 30.
The victim told police that the
invader busted open the locked door
between Dock and Main streets at
7:45 pm and nabbed a bunch of shipments.
Quick swipe
A subway menace snatched a
guy’s phone on the D train near
Dekalb Avenue on Dec. 4.
The victim told police that
the ne’er-do-well grabbed his cell
from his hand and ran off the Coney
Island-bound train around
1:10 am.
Podding
A gang of thieves stole a man’s
AirPod on Gold Street on Dec. 4.
The victim told police that the
nogoodniks snatched his wireless
headphone near Willoughby Street
at 10:15 and waltzed off toward Albee
Square.
COURIER L 8 IFE, DECEMBER 11-17, 2020
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Thanks mom
A teen’s mother scared off a gang
of goons who ambushed her son on
Lafayette Avenue on Dec. 2.
The 15-year-old victim told police
that the six delinquents punched him
in the face and demanded that he
empty his pockets at Carlton Avenue
at around 8:15 pm, before his mother
came running to the scene and the
ne’er-do-wells fl ed.
Stick up!
A gunman held up a Greene Avenue
grocery store on Dec. 2.
The victim told police that the
menace went behind the counter
of the shop at Cumberland Street
around 7 pm and demanded money at
gunpoint, before fl eeing with $800.
Fake deal
Criminals robbed a man during
a phony car sale on Park Avenue on
Nov. 25.
The victim told police that he arranged
to buy a car from one of the
malefactors at N. Portland Avenue at
4 pm when the duo stole $8,300 and an
ID from the victim at gunpoint.
Two-wheeled battle
Scooter-mounted scoundrels stole
a deliveryman’s e-bike and phone on
Adelphi Street on Dec. 3.
The victim told police that the
bandits rode up behind him at Lafayette
Avenue just before 8 pm, kicked
him off his two-wheeler and sped off
toward Clinton Hill.
Beat it!
Cops arrested two men they allege
attacked another man with a
stick on Myrtle Avenue on Dec. 2.
The victim told police that the
pair allegedly hit him in the head
with the wooden bat, before punching
and kicking him between Ryerson
Street and Grand Avenue at
1:45 pm.
Cops rushed to the scene and
collared the two men near Steuben
Street for felony assault charges.
Four wheels - two
Some purloiner stole a man’s
folding bike from his car on Lexington
Avenue some time between Nov.
30–Dec. 2.
The victim told cops he left his
car parked between Grand and
Classon avenues at 5 pm on the earlier
date and when he came back at
7:25 am on the later date, he saw that
someone had busted his vehicle’s
rear window and stolen the twowheeler
from his trunk.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Bottle bruiser
A ruffi an smacked a man in the
head with a bottle on Bay Ridge Avenue
on Nov. 30.
The victim told police that he got
into an argument with the bruiser
near the corner of 15th Street at 7:45
pm when the struck him in the head
with a glass bottle.
First responders transported the
victim to Lutheran Hospital.
Knife knave
A dirtbag stabbed a driver in the
chest on Shore Parkway on Dec. 4.
The victim told cops that he
stepped out of his car by 25th Avenue
after the attacker began banging
on his window at 2:25 am. The
brute then waved a six-inch knife
before stabbing the victim in the
ribcage, causing a small laceration.
The victim was rushed to Lutheran
Hospital, police said.
Cash grab
A thief stole about $800 from a
Bath Avenue nail salon on Dec. 4.
The victim told police that the
burglar broke the glass on the front
door before barging into the salon
on the corner of Bay 29th Street at
7:30 pm and stealing between $700
and $800 from the register.
Mail fail
A bandit pried several mailboxes
open in a Benson Avenue apartment
building on Nov. 30.
An employee told police that the
scoundrel broke into the lobby of the
building between Bay 35th Street and
24th Avenue at 9:50 pm and opened
multiple mailboxes, but didn’t remove
anything before fl eeing.
— Rose Adams
72ND PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Pipe down!
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
attacking his co-worker with
a metal pipe on Bond Street on
Dec. 8.
The victim told police that the
suspect smacked him two times
in the head with the metal pipe after
they got into an argument between
Sackett and Degraw streets
at around 10:05 am. The victim
called the police, who arrested
the defendant on the scene and
charged him with felony assault,
offi cials said.
Clothing klepto
A thief nabbed over $500 worth
of clothing from a Douglass Street
home on Dec. 2.
The victim told police that the
burglar broke into the locked vestibule
of his house between Smith
and Hoyt streets and nabbed a package
containing the items sometime
between 5 and 7 pm.
Bike burglary
A bandit stole a bike from Woodhull
Street sometime between Dec.
4 and Dec. 5.
The victim said that the sneak
thief broke the lock securing his
bike from a street pole and stole the
$700 bike sometime between 5:30 pm
on Dec. 4 and 3 pm on Dec. 5.
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Unguarded
A bozo stole an Army National
Guard uniform from a Neptune
Avenue storage locker on Dec. 1.
A witness told police that the
thief snagged the $900 uniform
from the storage space between
Brighton Eighth and Brighton
Seventh streets at around 9 am
before fleeing the scene undetected.
Unholy sale
Nogoodniks mugged a man with
a gun who was supposed to be selling
them a cellphone at a W. 29th
Street apartment building on Dec.
2.
The victim told police that he met
with the bandits on the fi fth fl oor of
the building between Surf Ave and
Riegelmann Boardwalk to make the
sale at around 7:30 am, before the
bandit brandished a gun and stole
his goods.
Locked out
Two brutes attacked two people
waiting in the lobby of a W. 28th
Street building on Dec. 5.
The victims told police they were
waiting for the elevator in the building
between Neptune and Mermaid
Avenues when the bruisers charged
them from behind around 5:55 am
and stole their house key.
— Jessica Parks