62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Bottled up rage
A brute smacked a man in the
head with a bottle on Avenue P on
June 11.
The victim told police that the
ruffi an swung the glass bottle at the
victim’s head outside a bodega between
McDonald Avenue and Dahill
Road at 6 pm, causing him to surfer
laceration to his forehead, fi ngers,
and hand.
Push and shove
Two robbers pushed a man down
and stole his wallet on 18th Avenue
on June 13.
The victim told police that the
two slimeballs pushed him from behind
on 74th Street at 12:38 am and
stole his wallet, containing $353, his
credit card, and his ID.
Car crook
A bandit nabbed a wallet from a
car parked on 77th Street on June
11.
The victim told police that the
good-for-nothing entered her possibly
unlocked car by 15th Avenue
at 5 pm and stole her Coach wallet,
which contained her credit card.
Cleaned out
A thief swiped air freshener and
detergent from a Kings Highway
pharmacy on June 9.
An employee told police that the
victim nabbed six boxes of Febreeze
and some Gain detergent from the
employee-only rear loading area of
the pharmacy on the corner of W.
11th Street at 1:50 am.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–BOERUM
HILL–DOWNTOWN
Doughnut dunce
An armed bandit held up a
Dunkin’ Donuts at gunpoint on Livingston
Street on June 12.
The victim told police that the
lawbreaker held an employee at
gunpoint and threatened “Give me
all the money or I’ll kill you” at Nevins
Street at 5 pm, before grabbing
$400 and fl eeing toward Flatbush
Avenue.
Knife knave
A blade-wielding menace stole a
man’s bike on Bridge Street on June
13.
The victim told police that he
spied the thief trying to take his
two-wheeler and he confronted
him near Willoughby Street at 1:15
pm, before the nogoodnik pointed a
knife at him and threatened to kill
the victim, before making off with
COURIER L 8 IFE, JUNE 19-25, 2020
First responders rescue two
capsized kayakers in Gowanus
Firefi ghters work to rescue the pair of sunken boaters. Citizen
the bicycle.
What a dump!
Nighttime marauders looted a
dumpling restaurant on Bergen
Street on June 7.
An employee told police that the
looter broke in after the eatery at
Court Street was closed at 10:30 pm,
before taking $250 in cash, an iPad,
and another tablet.
Big loot
A raider fi lched a Livingston
Street store, stealing more than
$20,000-worth of electronics and
booze on June 2.
An employee told police that the
invader busted the front glass door
between Nevins Street and Flatbush
Avenue at 10:10 pm and took
iPads, wines, and other booze worth
$20,700.
Online fraud
Some scammer emptied a Furman
Street man’s bank account between
May 29 and June 8.
The victim told police that he realized
that someone had stolen more
than $2,000 from his account by requesting
a debit card in the victim’s
name and using it repeatedly.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Pizza thieves
Two gun-wielding punks stole
pizzas from a deliveryman at
Quincy Street on June 8.
The victim told police that the
brutes smacked him in the head
with a gun between Classon Avenue
and Downing Street at 9:30 pm before
stealing $50-worth of pies and
bolting toward Franklin Avenue.
What a drag!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
trying to drag a woman off a 2
train near Flatbush Avenue on June
10.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly grabbed her bag
at Fulton Street just after 10 am, but
she fl ed to another train car — but
the man then allegedly followed her,
grabbed her legs, and tried to pull
her onto the platform.
Police intervened and cuffed the
suspect at the Nevins Street station
for felony robbery charges, according
to police reports.
Heat of passion
Police arrested a woman they
say threw a glass candle at another
woman at Carlton Avenue on June
14.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly picked up the candle
and hurled it at her face between
Park and Myrtle avenues at 6:15 pm,
leaving the victim with a cut on her
lip. The victim went to Methodist
Hospital for treatment of her injuries,
and police later arrested the
suspect on felony assault charges
on the scene, according to police reports.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Cash stash
A thief stole $600 from a bag in
Coffey Park on June 8.
The victim told police that she left
her bag unattended at the park between
Richards and Dwight streets
between noon and 1:45 pm, and returned
to fi nd it on the ground and
missing $600.
Car break-in
A thief stole an airbag from a
car that was parked on Clinton
Street overnight between June 13
and 14.
The victim told police that the
bandit broke the lock on the driver’s
side door of his Honda Accord
parked by Sackett Street and stole
the $775 airbag.
Bike burglar
A nogoodnik stole a bike that
was parked outside a home on Second
Place sometime between June
11 and 12.
The victim told police that she
left the $300 bike between Smith
and Hoyt Streets at 9:30 pm while
staying at her boyfriend’s house,
but when she returned the next
morning, the bike was gone.
— Rose Adams
BY KEVIN DUGGAN & BEN VERDE
Firefi ghters rescued two teenage
kayakers who capsized into
the notoriously-toxic Gowanus Canal
on June 13.
The duo’s shared boat started
fi lling with water near the Third
Street Bridge after 4 pm, and kept
fi lling until suddenly it fl ipped,
said one of the sunken boaters.
“I can’t believe we fell in there,”
said Baron Pena, while staring
from land at the water where he’d
fl oated in for seven minutes.
New York’s Bravest sent out its
marine unit to the rescue, with
wetsuit-wearing smoke eaters to
help fi sh the submerged sailors
out of the putrid waterway.
Video on the Citizen app shows
a paramedic pulling the female
passenger out of the water near
the base of the bridge.
Both Pena and the girl —
whose name could not be obtained
— were unharmed from their dip
in Brooklyn’s Nautical Purgatory
and refused a trip to the hospital,
according to a Fire Department
spokesman.
The canal is a federal Superfund
site, and will undergo a cleanup
supervised by the EPA to help
cleanse the polluted waterway.
Inspectors have in the past
found the sediment to contain high
amounts of toxic chemicals and
heavy metals, such as mercury,
lead, and copper, along with traces
of dog poop and even gonorrhea!