60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Cash-forthreats
A good-for-nothing nabbed a
whopping $37,000 from a Mermaid
Avenue check cashing business on
Dec. 11.
An employee told police that
the thief pointed a gun through
the window inside the business between
W. 23rd and W. 24th street at
around 10:35 pm, before running
off with the money.
Pocket picker
A weasel snagged an 85-yearold
woman’s cell phone from her
pocket on Brighton First Street on
Dec. 11.
The victim told police the highway
robber asked her for money
near Brightwater Court at around
2:30 pm, before snagging her phone
and fl eeing.
Hand it over
A crook swiped a sleeping straphanger’s
iPhone 11 aboard the
southbound D train near Stillwell
Avenue station on Dec. 13.
The victim told police he woke
up on the train in the station at
Mermaid and Stillwell avenues at
around 5:45 am, and realized his
phone had been stolen.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Brutal bandit
A nogoodnik attacked an employee
of an E. 16th Street business
and stole money from the cash register
on Dec. 12.
The employee told police that
they confronted the pilferer after
witnessing him stealing merchandise
from the store at the
intersection of Quentin Road at
around midnight, before the brute
punched him multiple times and
fl ed.
Shopping spree
A snake stole an Apple Watch
and Beats Headphones from two
separate Kings Highway stores on
Dec. 12.
The store manager told police
that the thief grabbed the watch
from the store at the intersection
of Ocean Avenue at around 2:30
pm, before running to another
store two blocks away and snagging
the headphones.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER LIFE, D 8 ECEMBER 20-26, 2019
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Road rage
A brute struck a man with a
hammer in a fi t of road rage on
Benson Avenue on Dec. 8.
The victim told police that the
ruffi an struck him in the back
with the construction tool between
Bay 10th Street and 15th Avenue
at 11:34 pm after the they got
into an argument following a car
accident.
First responders took the victim
to Lutheran Hospital in stable
condition, according to police.
Scumbag attack
A lowlife punched a woman in
the face and hit her with a liquor
bottle on Shore Parkway on Dec.
15.
The victim told cops that the
good-for-nothing attacked her in
a hotel between Bay Parkway and
Bay 38th Street at 2:15 am, socking
her in the face, smacking her with
a liquor bottle, damaging her cellphone,
and stealing her driver’s
license — before driving off down
Shore Parkway.
Grocery goon
A robber looted an 18th Avenue
grocery store at gun-point on Dec.
13.
The employee told cops that
the perp displayed a black handgun
inside the store between 72nd
and 73rd streets at 5:45 pm, before
stealing $900. — Rose Adams
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MARINE PARK —MILL BASIN—FLATLANDS—
BERGEN BEACH
Gold rush
A jerk nabbed a gold rosary
necklace from a woman’s neck on
Avenue K on Dec. 14.
The victim told police that the
pillager grabbed the necklace
while on the sidewalk between E.
34th Street and New York Avenue
around 1 pm.
Tee’s company
A t-shirt snatching trio stole
over $1,800 worth of kid’s shirts
from a King’s Plaza children’s
store on Avenue U on Dec. 9.
An employee told police that the
shoplifters swiped the merchandise
from the store in the mall between
Flatbush Avenue and E. 55th
Street around 6:30 pm and ran off.
Double trouble
Thieves nabbed two iPhones
and other valuables from a vehicle
parked on E. 74th Street on Dec.
12.
The victim told police he parked
on the block between Avenue U and
Avenue V after returning from
work around 3 am, but when he return
at 7:15 am, he noticed $1,345
worth of property was missing.
— Jessica Parks
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Cold-blooded
A man stole almost $1,000 in
cold medicine from a Smith Street
pharmacy on Dec. 6.
An employee told police that the
bandit snagged $997 worth of medicine
from the pharmacy on the
corner of President Street at about
11:50 am.
Package pilferer
A thief ran off with an undelivered
package on Henry Street on
Dec. 12.
The victim told police that the
purse purloiner snatched the package
— containing a handbag —
from a stoop between Huntington
and W. Ninth streets sometime between
7 pm and 11:20 pm.
Locker room
looter
A bandit stole Apple Airpods
from a locker room at a Baltic
Street school on Dec. 13.
The victim told cops that he left
his $270 headphones on a bench
in the locker room between Court
and Smith street at 11:47 am, before
the thief snatched them.
Car crook
A good-for-nothing nabbed a
wallet from a car on Richards
Street between Dec. 12 and Dec.
13.
The victim told police that the
thief snagged the wallet — which
contained $150, fi ve credit cards, a
health insurance card, and a driver’s
license — from a parked car
near Seabring Street sometime between
7 am and 9 am the following
day.
— Rose Adams
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SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Subway skirmish
Three marauders tried to rob
two guys aboard a D train near
55th Street on Dec. 15.
One victim told police that he
intervened as the purloiners were
robbing a fellow straphanger at
4:55 am, when the goons attempted
to rob him — but fl ed empty handed
after a brief scuffl e.
What a tool
A sneak looted a basement on
Seventh Avenue on Dec. 11.
The victim told police that the
weasel jumped the back fence of
the apartment building near 41st
Street at around 5:45 pm, and made
off with $2,730 worth of tools.
Dr. Sneak
Some worm robbed a 55th Street
hospital on Dec. 14.
An employee told police that
a disgruntled former employee
snuck into an operating room near
Second Avenue at around 1:15 pm
and lifted $2,500 worth of surgical
equipment.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Sucker punched
Some punk assaulted a guy on
Ninth Street on Dec. 2.
The victim told police that he
got in a fi ght with the brute near
Fourth Avenue at around 1:00 pm,
when the bruiser socked him in
the face.
First responders arrived on the
scene, but the victim refused to cooperate
and did not accept medical
attention, according to police
reports.
Mall shover
A jerk assaulted a victim at an
Atlantic Avenue mall on Dec. 4.
The victim told police that the
bully hit him in the face inside
the mall near Flatbush Avenue at
around 1:15 pm, knocking off his
glasses.
From behind!
A reckless driver fl ed the scene
after he rear-ended a guy on St.
Marks Avenue on Dec. 7.
The victim told police that he
was sitting in his parked car near
Sixth Avenue when the buffoon
smashed into him from behind
and drove off.
— Ben Verde