60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Snoozing swiper
A pickpocket robbed an iPhone
from a sleeping straphanger at a
Surf Avenue subway station on Nov.
13
The victim told police that he
woke up at the station near Stillwell
Avenue at around 10 am with his
phone missing and headphones still
in his ears.
Bathroom bandit
A thief stole an unattended wallet
from a Sheepshead Bay Road
building on Nov. 5.
The victim told police that she
left her wallet on a ledge in the bathroom
of the building between Shell
Road and W. Sixth Street while she
went into the stall at around 7 am
and returned to fi nd it missing.
Playground pilferer
A sneak thief stole a wallet from
a car parked at a Bay 44th Street
park on Nov. 8.
The victim told police that the
pilferer grabbed the contraband
from the unlocked vehicle parked at
the intersection of Shore Parkway
at around 1 am.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Market marauder
A robber stabbed a mini market
employee and stole the cash register
on 20th Avenue on Nov. 15.
The employee told police that the
dirtbag attempted to loot cash register
inside the shop near 81st Street
at 9:10 pm, when the employee
locked the front gate to the store —
enraging the attacker, who stabbed
him in the arm with a knife before
breaking a window and jumping out
with the drawer and $230 in tow.
Knife knave
A brute threatened a man with a
knife on 86th Street on Nov. 7.
The victim told police that the
random ruffi an, who was holding a
knife, began yelling on the corner of
24th Avenue and 86th Street at 6 pm
before throwing an object at him
and running away.
Teenage terror
Cops cuffed a teenager for allegedly
punching a man on Bay 28th
Street.
The 56-year-old victim told police
that the 17-year-old followed him to
his house between Bath and Benson
Avenues at 3:20 am before allegedly
punching him in the face from
behind and saying, “I need your
money, I wasn’t going to hurt you.”
COURIER L 8 IFE, NOV. 20-26, 2020
Cops shoot dog that
mauled suspect in Flatbush
Police and paramedics remove the badly mauled suspect, who was attacked by a
dog in Flatbush during a police chase, to an ambulance. Photo by Todd Maisel
Police arrived on the scene and
cuffed the man during a scuffl e, according
to police reports.
Bag burglar
A thief nabbed a bag carrying
$1,000 from a Bath Avenue grocery
store on Nov. 15.
The victim told police that she
left her bag unattended behind the
counter of the store between Bay
16th and Bay 17th streets at around
2 pm, but while she was looking
away, a nogoodnik snagged the
bag containing the cash and several
credit cards.
Car crime
A pilferer nabbed $2,000 from a
parked car on Bay Parkway on Nov.
11.
The victim told police that he
saw the good-for-nothing peeking
into his car parked between Bath
and Benson avenues before entering
through the driver’s side and taking
the cash, along with his credit card
and sunglasses.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Deli stickup
A punk held up a Schermerhorn
Street bodega on Nov. 9.
The victim told police that the
knave brandished a fake handgun
inside the shop near Hoyt Street at
8:20 am, before bagging $2,300 and
fl eeing toward Smith Street.
A-train A-hole!
Some creep tried to mug a woman
on the A train near the High Street
station on Nov. 9.
The victim told police that she
confronted the creep for following
her while aboard a Queens-bound
train in Manhattan at around 2:50
pm, when the baddie tried to swing
at her and missed, before trying to
unsuccessfully grab her purse.
Double trouble
A pair of goons attacked a guy
and attempted to rob him on Court
Street on Nov. 11.
The victim told police that the
two ruffi ans punched him in the head
between Atlantic Avenue and State
Street at 2 pm, beforing trying and
failing to take his phone and bike.
Bad luck
A posse of blade-wielding purloiners
stole a bunch of scratch
cards from a Pearl Street newsstand
on Nov. 13.
The victim told police that the
criminals threatened him with a
knife between Willoughby and Fulton
streets at 11:40 am, before grabbing
several game cards worth $1,400.
Hoodie heist
A shoplifter slugged a security
guard at a Fulton Mall clothing
store on Nov. 13.
The victim told police that he
tried to stop the thief from bagging
several hoodies inside the store between
Smith Street and Gallatin
Place at 3:30 pm, when the pilferer
punched him in the jaw and threatened
to pepper-spray him.
Slice n’ dice!
Nightcrawlers stole a bunch of
booze from a Brooklyn Bridge Park
pizza restaurant near Furman
Street on Nov. 9.
The victims told police that the
knaves got in the eatery near Pier
6 through the roof around 2:40 am
and took $210 worth of liquor, before
fl eeing through the emergency exit.
— Kevin Duggan
BY TODD MAISEL
A wild pursuit through the
streets of Flatbush came to a bloody
end on Nov. 11 when a pit bull
mauled a suspect who jumped into
its backyard during a police chase,
and cops shot the dog to prevent it
from killing the man.
Offi cers from the 63rd and 70th
precincts were pursing two suspects
— whose crime police did not
immediately disclose — in a car on
E. 29th Street between Farragut
Road and Foster Avenue at around
1:20 pm when the men ditched their
ride and began running on foot.
The men entered the backyard of
an E. 29th Street house, where they
encountered what was described
as a large pit bull who attacked one
of the two suspects. The other man
tried to pull the dog off, but the large
canine bit him, too.
Police said that they saw the pit
bull mauling the suspect, and shot
the dog, since they believed they
were also in danger. First responders
pronounced the dog deceased at
the scene.
The younger of the two suspects
suffered severe lacerations from
dog attack, and may have been
struck by a bullet that ricocheted
off a concrete wall.
Paramedics rushed both men
to Kings County Hospital in stable
condition with charges pending, offi
cials said.
After police shot the dog, the pit
bull’s owner began arguing and
shoving police offi cers on the scene.
A group of policemen tackled the
irate man to the ground and took
him into custody.
A woman who would not identify
herself said the shooting was
“unnecessary.”
“I was standing over the dog.
They didn’t have to shoot the dog,”
she cried.
Another resident, Tyreek Smith,
who said he trains large dogs, argued
that “the dog was only protecting
his property.”
“You gotta know how to handle
a dog — there are ways to do it without
having to shoot the dog,” said
Tyreek. “They didn’t have to shoot
that dog. The dog was acting the
way he should.”