84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Glassed!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
hitting a woman with a glass
bottle on Duffi eld Street on Sept.
11.
The victim told police that she
was arguing with the suspect near
Willoughby Street at around 7:40
pm when he allegedly swung the
bottle at her.
Paramedics rushed the woman
to Methodist Hospital for treatment,
and cops arrested the man
at the scene at 8:10 pm for felony assault,
according to police reports.
Revel without a buzz
Bandits nabbed two Revel
scooter batteries in Downtown
Brooklyn and Dumbo on May 22
and July 11.
Staff at the scooter sharing company
told police that the miscreants
grabbed the batteries, worth
about $1,650 each, setting off alarm
notifi cations for tampering with
the vehicles.
Offi cially criminal
A ne’er-do-well looted a city vehicle
on Smith Street on Sept. 10.
The victim told police that the
criminal broke into a parked Department
of Transportation vehicle
between Warren and Wyckoff
streets at 1:30 pm and bagged a Gucci
wallet, a city radio, lunch box,
car keys, and DOT identifi cation.
Apple thief!
Some scoundrel ransacked a
Court Street offi ce on Aug. 31.
The victim told cops that the
prowler got into the real estate offi
ce at Warren Street at around 11
pm through the back door and stole
four Apple computers.
Run with it
A sinister sneakerhead bagged
more than $2,000-worth of shoes
from a Fulton Street department
store in the wee hours of Sept. 13.
A store employee told police that
the footwear fi end grabbed several
shoes, valued at a total of $2,360,
from the store between Flatbush Avenue
Ext. and Hanover Place at 4:25
am and ran off.
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FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Brutal bike swipe
A villain ambushed a delivery
man and stole his e-bike at N. Oxford
Walk on Sept. 6.
The victim told police that he was
dropping off food near Park Avenue
at 10:40 pm when the rogue waltzed
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up, punched him in the face, yanked
away his e-bike, and pedaled off.
Piped up!
A pipe-swinging cretin stole a
woman’s purse at the Lafayette Avenue
C train stop on Sept. 12.
The victim told police that while
she was waiting for the Manhattanbound
train at 8 am, the brute got up
from a bench and swung a metal bar
at her demanding she produce her
purse or he’ll kill her.
The victim screamed and threw
her bag at the lout, who ran out of
the station, according to cops.
Bottle to the head!
A man was hospitalized after
a brute smashed him in the head
with a bottle at Washington Park on
Sept. 9.
The victim told police that the
bruiser hit him in the back of the
head near Myrtle Avenue at 5:50
pm.
Paramedics brought him to
Brooklyn Hospital for treatment,
according to police.
Belted!
Some jerk whacked a man with a
belt on Park Avenue on Sept. 11.
The victim told police that the
leather-wielding lout smacked him
in the arm near Carlton Avenue at
6:10 pm.
Busted!
Cops caught two would-be looters
red-handed on Fleet Place on
Sept. 8.
A security guard saw the suspects
on surveillance camera feeds
allegedly break into the construction
site between Willoughby Street
and Flatbush Avenue Ext. at 2:30
am, trying to steal metal wires and
bars, and alarmed police.
Cops showed up around 2:50 am
and charged both suspects with felony
burglary, according to police
reports.
Highway hucksters
A group of shysters scammed a
woman out of more than $6,000 on
Myrtle Avenue on Sept. 8.
The victim told police that she
met a woman at the corner of Vanderbilt
Avenue at 9:30 am who promised
her she could make money off
of investments, but when the victim
handed over $6,099 in cash, the con
artist stole the funds and vanished.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
You’ve got mail!
A crook nabbed fi ve boxes fi lled
with envelopes from a Carroll Street
stoop on Sept. 12.
The victim told police that he
saw surveillance footage of the
porch pirate grabbing the boxes
fi lled with $108 worth of envelopes
from his stoop between Hoyt and
Bond streets sometime between 1:45
pm and 4:50 pm.
Van gone
A treasure hunter stole a $3,700
art piece from a Van Brunt Street
gallery sometime between Aug. 29
and Aug. 30.
The artist told police that the
thief broke into the art gallery by
Beard Street and stole the original
oil painting on linen from the store
sometime between 6 pm on Aug. 29
and 12:30 pm on Aug. 30.
Fruit cart looter
A thief stole the permit of a fruit
vendor from his Douglas Street cart
on Sept. 9.
The vendor told police that he
left his card on his mobile fruit
cart that was parked by Hoyt
Street, but when he looked away,
a bandit snagged the card at about
6:10 pm.
White collar crime
A pirate snatched nearly $1,500
worth of clothes from a Smith Street
boutique on Sept. 14.
An employee told police that she
was cleaning up the dressing room
when the burglar must have come
in and snatched six pairs of jeans
and two sweatshirts worth $1,458 total
from the store by Pacifi c Street
at around 3 pm.
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BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Bottle brutes
Three louts roughed up a man
on New Utrecht Avenue with a glass
bottle on Sept. 12.
The victim told police that the
assailants approached him while
he was walking home on the corner
of 76th Street at 5 am and began
smacking him with a glass bottle,
punching him, and kicking him in
the head.
Police found him coming in and
out of consciousness with bulging
swelling around his eye and head,
authorities said.
What a tool!
A good-for-nothing nabbed
$5,000 worth of construction tools
from a 24th Avenue car on Sept.
10.
An employee at the air conditioning
company told police that
the burglar broke into his commercial
truck parked by Bay 37th
Street at around midnight and
stole the tools before he returned
to the vehicle at 6 am on that morning.
Knife knaves
Cops cuffed a trio of robbers for
allegedly slashing a man and stealing
his friend’s money in Lt. Joseph
Petrosino Playground on Sept. 12.
The three victims told cops that
the robbers took $110 out of one victim’s
pocket and another victim’s
iPhone before getting into an argument
with the third victim, whom
one of the brutes slashed in the
back, authorities said.
The attackers then dropped the
knife and ran out of the playground
on 70th Street and New Utrecht Avenue
at 12:45 am, police said.
— Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Taxi pirates
Brutes robbed $55 from their taxi
driver before fl eeing from the vehicle
on Surf Avenue on Sept. 11.
The victim told police that the
two crooks threatened to shoot him
when pulling up to the intersection
of W. 33rd Street at around 6:20 am
before taking off with the money.
Crazy train
A savage stole a woman’s cash after
threatening her with a box cutter
at the Surf Avenue station on
Sept. 10.
The victim told police that the
bandit fl ed from the station at the
intersection of W. Eighth Street at
around 8:25 am with the ill-gotten
funds.
Tool crazy
A robber stole $3,500 worth of
tools from a worksite at a Surf Avenue
public housing complex on Sept.
10.
A witness told police that he noticed
the door had been tampered
with when arriving to work between
W. 29th and W. 30th streets at
around 3:30 am before noticing the
missing items.
— Jessica Parks