84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
A bite out of crime
Some criminal beat and robbed
a guy on the 2 train on October 25,
according to police.
The victim told cops he was sitting
on the train as it pulled into
the Clark Street station around
9:55 pm when the brute approached
him, punched him in the chest,
pushed him into a seat, and bit his
left thigh. He then removed the victims
AirPods from his pocket, and
ran off the train onto the tracks at
Clark Street.
Hoyt creep
Cops are searching for a creep
who they say sexually assaulted a
child on the platform of the Hoyt-
Schermerhorn Street platform on
October 1.
According to police, the 10-yearold
victim was walking on the
Manhattan-bound platform at 7:45
am with her mother, when the assailant
grabbed her buttocks.
Macy’s creep
A slimeball sexually assaulted
a woman in a Fulton Street department
store on October 22, according
to the NYPD.
The woman was shopping in the
store near Hoyt Street at around
8:50 pm when the lowlife grabbed
her buttocks, police say.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Inconvenience store
A couple of jerks robbed a smoke
and convenience shop on Hanson
Place on Oct. 29.
The store’s owner told police
the marauders entered the store
with baseball bats just before 3 p.m
and stole more than $4,000 in cash
from the register and a selection of
items, though he has to take inventory
before he knows what was stolen
and how much it is worth.
Scooter smash
A bozo used his daughter’s
scooter to injure his girlfriend on
Elliot Walk on Oct. 24.
The victim told police the lout
allegedly hit her with the scooter
near Myrtle Avenue around 6pm,
injuring her left arm and right
hand. She took herself to the hospital
for her injuries and called police
from there.
Offi cers later arrested the man
near his home.
Stolen check cashed
Some jerk reproduced a check
COURIER L 8 IFE, NOVEMBER 5-11, 2021
Man sets deli ablaze
with Molotov cocktail
The suspect threw a Molotov Cocktail into the Brooklyn deli at Nostrand Avenue
and Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Oct. 30. FDNY
and cashed it into their own account
on Oct. 21.
Police said the victim was notifi
ed by Chase Bank that at some
point that day, someone had cashed
a check she had apparently written
for more than $9,000 at a Chase location
in Manhattan — miles away
from her Clinton Hill home. Chase
provided the name written on the
back of the illicit check, and offi -
cers are investigating.
Gone fi shing
A thief managed to sneak a
check out of a Clinton Avenue mailbox
and changed the details sometime
after Oct. 8.
The victim told police he wrote
a check to his insurance company
and dropped it in the mailbox on
the corner of Lafayette Avenue. On
Oct. 22, he noticed the check had
been altered – from a $250 payment
to more than $5,000 — and deposited
in a stranger’s bank account.
Sorry Hal
A purloiner broke into a car
parked on Elliot Place on Oct. 30.
The victim said she parked the
car on the corner of Hanson Place
at 11:20 am and left it there for about
20 minutes. When she got back, the
sneak had gotten into the trunk of
her car and stolen her handbag and
some clothes, Apple headphones,
and, worst of all, her work laptop
– on loan from the United Nations.
All together, the stolen property
was worth just over $3,000.
Wegman’s worm
A worm nabbed a shopper’s wallet
and cell phone as she shopped at
the Flushing Avenue Wegman’s on
Oct. 31.
Police said the woman had
placed her cell phone and wallet,
which are attached, in the cart
while she was grocery shopping between
4:15 and 5pm. At some point,
someone reached in unnoticed and
took the bundle, which included
her debit card, driver’s license, and
MetroCards.
Volkswa-gone
A clever thief stole a 2011 Volkswagon
that was parked on Park
Avenue on Oct. 23.
The victim told police she parked
and locked the car at the corner of
Waverly Avenue at about 9 a.m. and
returned to an empty parking spot
12 hours later. She said she has the
only set of keys, and there was no
broken glass to indicate a busted
window on the street, and offi cers
found no trace of the car when they
searched the area.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BATH BEACH
Burglar-in-style
Cleaned house
A freebooting house breaker
stole over $4,000 cash from a Ocean
Parkway home they were cleaning
on Oct. 28.
The victim told police she heard
her dog barking and when she went
to the front door of her home between
Neptune and W. Brighton
avenues around 10 am she saw her
house cleaner running away down
the hallway.
Pill pincher
A fi endin’ crook stole almost
$4,000 worth of prescription pills
from a pharmacy’s delivery vehicle
parked on Brighton 5th Street on
Oct. 23.
The lout broke into the locked vehicle
parked between Neptune and
Ocean View avenues around 11 pm
in a way unknown to the victim.
Exhausted
A bandit stole an exhaust system
from a vehicle parked on West
Avenue on Oct. 26.
Police said the theft from the vehicle
parked at the intersection of
Ocean Avenue around 8 am is one
of a pattern occurring in the area.
—Jessica Parks
BY BEN BRACHFELD
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Fire Marshals collared a man
they say threw a Molotov cocktail
into a Brooklyn deli, setting it
ablaze, FDNY Commissioner Daniel
Nigro said on Sunday, Oct. 31.
“Fortunately, there was no loss
of life here. The investigative work
from the Explosives and Arson
Task Force comprised of our Fire
Marshals, the NYPD, and ATF, led
to the timely arrest of this suspect
who threatened the safety of our
communities by using such a cruel
and destructive device,” said Nigro
in a statement. “FDNY will continue
to work alongside local, state
and federal partners to bring to justice
those who use fi re as a weapon
against New Yorkers.”
The suspect, 38-year-old Joel
Mangal, allegedly tossed the burning
bottle into the store on Nostrand
Avenue at the corner of
Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant
on Oct. 30 at 7:53 a.m., according
to FDNY.
The incendiary device quickly
set the shop’s counter ablaze and
two workers ran out the door, dramatic
surveillance footage shows,
and one victim suffered non-lifethreatening
injuries, according to
the Department.
Firefi ghters quickly brought the
fl ames under control and Mangal
was charged with arson, assault,
reckless endangerment, criminal
possession of a weapon, and criminal
mischief.
His case will be prosecuted by
the Brooklyn District Attorney’s
offi ce.