88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Hit and rob
A road raging rogue punched
a woman and snatched her bag on
Flatbush Avenue on Oct. 3.
The victim told police that the
jerk hit her vehicle with his car
near Livingston Street just after 5
pm, and when she got out to check
the damage, the brute punched her
in the face twice before grabbing
her purse and hightailing it.
Held up!
Cops collared a man for allegedly
trying to rob another guy on
Waverly Avenue on Sept. 30.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly demanded he
hand over his wallet while indicating
he had a knife at Myrtle Avenue
around 10:40 pm.
Police arrived on the scene and
arrested the suspect for felony robbery
charges, according to police
reports.
Bad relations
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
piercing his relative’s hand during
a fi ght at their St. Edwards Street
home on Sept. 28.
The victim told police that he
got into an escalating war of words
with the suspect inside the home
near Monument Walk just before
1 am, before the suspect allegedly
grabbed a kitchen knife, holding it
up to the victim’s neck, before puncturing
his right hand.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment,
and cops arrested the suspect on felony
assault charges, according to
police reports.
Vengeful ex
Cops arrested a woman for allegedly
attacking her ex-boyfriend’s
new fl ame during a crime of passion
outside a St. Edwards Street housing
complex on Sept. 30.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly lunged at her and
her new beau near Park Avenue at
4 pm, putting her keys between her
fi ngers and punching her repeatedly
in the face.
Police arrested the suspect the
following day at 7:45 pm on felony
assault charges.
Bodega bruiser
Some brute whacked a guy with
a blunt object at a Park Avenue bodega
on Oct. 2.
The victim told police that the
goon bludgeoned him in the face inside
the deli near N. Oxford Street
at 7 am.
Paramedics rushed the injured
victim to nearby Brooklyn Hospital
for treatment, according to police
reports.
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCT. 9-15, 2020
Four-year-old boy critically
injured by minivan driver
The scene where 4-year-old was critically injured on a scooter. Photo by Todd Maisel
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Downtown ambush
A criminal couple beat up and
robbed a man on Willoughby Street
on Oct. 3.
The victim told police that
the Bonnie and Clyde wannabes
punched and kicked him in the face
between Jay and Lawrence streets
at 7:20 pm, before the goons fl ed
with his bag, bank cards, and identifi
cation.
Backseat haul
Rogues looted a man’s car on
Gold Street on Oct. 1.
The victim told police that the
pirates busted the rear side window
near Water street sometime
between 7 and 10:45 am, before nabbing
some goods and fl eeing.
Busted!
Police arrested an alleged serial
burglar outside an Albee Square W.
apartment building on Oct. 1.
The luxury tower’s doorman told
police that he caught the suspect on
a security camera allegedly going
through cabinets and playing pool
inside the building between Dekalb
Avenue and Willoughby Street just
before 4:30 am.
When cops arrived on the scene
at around 5:16 am, they found that
the alleged regular raider was previously
charged with 10 other burglaries.
Goodbye suckers!
A shoplifter stole several vacuum
cleaners from an Albee Square
W. department store on Sept. 30.
Store employees told police that
the hoover hijacker cut the alarms
off $1,700 worth of cleaning devices
inside the store near Fulton Sreet at
9:45 pm, before sneaking out of the
emergency exit.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Soap dope
A marauder threatened an 18th
Avenue pharmacy employee before
stealing soap on Oct. 3.
The victim told police that the
baddie said “I will hurt you,” and
snatched $86 worth of Dove soap
from the store at the corner of 67th
Street at 9:30 am.
Nose blows
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
assaulting a man during a robbery
on McDonald Avenue on Oct. 4.
The victim told police the suspect
allegedly bloodied his nose during
a fi ght over money near Quentin
Road at 10:30 am, before nabbing an
envelope with $260 in it.
Cops cuffed the man soon after,
and found the envelope in the suspect’s
pocket, according to police
reports.
Caught red handed
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
attacking another man and
taking his cellphone on Bay 29th
Street on Oct. 3.
The victim told police that the
suspect was muttering unintelligibly
when he randomly punched
the victim in the stomach near 86th
Street just after 10 am, before allegedly
snatching his phone and unsuccessfully
trying to pull his necklace
off his neck.
The victim identifi ed the defendant
soon after around the corner
from the scene, and cops arrested
him on the spot, according to police
reports.
Knocked out
Two villains knocked a man unconscious
before stealing his phone
on W. Ninth Street on Oct. 1.
The victim told police that he
saw a man rummaging through
the glove compartment of his car
parked between Avenue P and
Quentin Road at 4:15 am, but when
he rushed to the car to stop him, the
thief’s accomplice struck him in the
back of the head.
The victim lost consciousness
briefl y, and when he awoke, his cellphone
was gone and the robbers
were fl eeing in a black sedan, according
to police reports.
— Rose Adams
BY TODD MAISEL
A minivan driver struck
a four-year-old boy riding a
scooter in Gerritsen Beach on
the evening of Oct. 4, critically
injuring him, according to police.
The boy was riding his threewheel
scooter across Gerritsen
Avenue mid-block between Seba
and Lois avenues when the
driver of a white Chrysler minivan
struck him at 6:12 pm, authorities
said.
The impact sent the boy flying
into parked cars, with his baseball
cap ending up in the middle
of the street, about 50 feet from
the intersection of Seba Avenue,
officers said.
Officers from the 61st Precinct
and EMS rushed the boy
to Maimonides Medical Center,
where he was in critical condition
with multiple injuries.
The minivan driver, a 58-yearold
man, remained at the scene
as members of the NYPD Collision
Investigation Squad probed
the cause of the crash. Police did
not say where the boy’s parents
were at the time of the collision.
The tragic incident came less
than two days after a motorcycle
and bicycle collision in Sunset
Park that killed 31-year-old cyclist
Clara Kang, who was biking
back from her night shift at
NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn
at the time of the crash.