60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Lyft lift
A goon robbed his Lyft driver at
gunpoint on W. 33rd Street on July
29.
The victim told police the passenger
brandished a gun inside the
car between Mermaid and Surf Avenues
around 2:20 am, before running
out with his backpack, GPS,
and money.
Wake up call
Bandits snagged $650 from a
homeless man sleeping on a bench
on Riegelmann Boardwalk East on
August 1.
The victim told police that he
woke up to the bullies going through
his pockets near Brighton Fourth
Street at around 5:50 am, and when
he tried to stop them, the brutes attacked
him.
Liquor run
Freebooters stole bottles of Hennessy
and Meukow from a Sheepshead
Bay Road liquor store on July
31.
An employee told police that the
fi lchers broke into the store between
W. Sixth and W. Eighth streets
through the front door at around
3:42 am before stealing the liquor
bottles and making off.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Knife knave
A man snagged a woman’s cell
phone inside of a Sheepshead Bay
Road residence on July 24.
The victim told police that the
bandit threatened her with a knife
inside the home at the intersection
of Avenue W at around 3 am, before
grabbing the phone and fl eeing.
Un-safe
A bandit snagged $2,000 from a
storage bin inside a Shore Parkway
apartment on July 29.
The victim told police that he returned
to his apartment at the intersection
of Brigham Street at around
10:30 am to fi nd his savings missing.
Loose change
A goon attempted to break into
an Ocean Parkway laundry room’s
cash box with a drill on July 30.
An employee told police that the
malefactor was unable to get any
money from the laundry at the intersection
of Kings Highway at around
1 am, and left empty handed.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER L 8 IFE, AUGUST 7-13, 2020
Pilferer steals cash
from Park Slope church
A bandit stole funds from St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Photo by Todd Maisel
62ND PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Bank heist
A robber stole $858 from a 21st
Avenue bank on July 28.
A teller told police that the bandit
passed him a note telling him to
give over the money inside the bank
on the corner of 86th Street at 1:40
pm, which the employee did.
Road rage
A motorist threatened to punch a
man on 74th Street on Aug. 1.
The victim told police that the
brute approached his car in a fi t of
road rage near 74th Street and 16th
Avenue just before 8 pm, before saying
“Give me everything you’ve got
or I’ll punch you,” prompting the
victim to fork over $10.
Snack attack
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
beating a halal cart worker on 66th
Street on July 26.
The victim told police that the
suspect’s accomplice placed an order
at the cart near Bay Parkway at
6:50 pm, when the suspect allegedly
grabbed him, pulled him out of the
cart, and punched him in the chest
— before the two men stole $500
from the register and fl ed.
The victim identifi ed one of the
perpetrators during a search with
police, who charged the defendant
with a felony robbery, according to
police reports.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Subway swipe!
A knife-wielding knave nabbed
a woman’s phone on the R train at
Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center on
July 27.
The victim told cops that the
good-for-nothing threatened her
with the blade on the subway’s Bay
Ridge-bound platform at 10 pm, before
grabbing her phone and running
out of the station.
Lashing out
Two armed shoplifters attacked
a beauty store employee while stealing
fake lashes on Livingston Street
on July 29.
The victim told police that the
thieves tried to bag mink eyelashes
from the shop between Bond Street
and Hanover Place at 12:57 pm, and
when the employee tried to stop
them, one of the gunmen hit her in
the face with the fi rearm, while the
other punched her in the face.
Barred!
Some goon beat up a man inside
a Duffi eld Street housing complex
on July 29.
The victim told police that the
reprobate began yelling at him inside
the hallway of the complex
between Fulton and Willoughby
streets at 10:20 am, before whacking
him repeatedly with a metal object.
Paramedics brought the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment,
according to the authorities.
Legging it
A thief stole a bunch of jeans
from a Fulton Street department
store on July 28.
The victim told police that the pirate
walked out of the store at Gallatin
Place at around 3:30 pm with
more than $1,000-worth of ill-gotten
trousers.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Card swiper
A thief racked up multiple
charges on a woman’s credit card
that was stolen from a car parked
on Luquer Street sometime between
Aug. 3 and Aug. 4.
The victim told police that the
bandit used a razor cutter to break
into her locked car parked between
Clinton Street and Hamilton Avenue,
before snatching the victim’s
$500 wallet, driver’s license, social
security card, and credit car —
which the good-for-nothin’ used on
a shopping spree.
— Rose Adams
BY TODD MAISEL
Police are still looking for the
man who pilfered the charity collection
box at a Park Slope church
shortly after services on July 31.
According to the Brooklyn Diocese,
the suspect breached the collection
box at St. Thomas Aquinas
Church on Ninth Street and removed
an undetermined amount of
cash. The church reported the incident
to the 78th Precinct, and detectives
are now examining video evidence
collected at the scene.
Sources say the theft was discovered
at around 4 pm on July 31 by a
Franciscan sister who was sanitizing
the church pews. Church leaders
believe the theft occurred after
1:30 pm that day, with the thief
slipping in after the noon services
ended.
The theft comes after months of
services being shut down because
of the COVID-19 pandemic, limiting
churches’ collections both for their
own operations and for other charitable
causes.
“I understand in these unprecedented
times, many people have
lost their jobs and need assistance,
but this is not how you turn to the
church for help,” said Father Willy
Kingsley Ndi, administrator of St.
Thomas Aquinas Church, on Saturday.
“My message to those in need
is to ring our doorbell, don’t vandalize
and steal, and let us help you.”