60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Jacket robbers
Three thieves snagged $6,990
worth of merchandise from a Coney
Island Avenue clothing shop
on Nov. 18.
Witnesses told police that the
shoplifters broke into the locked
door of the storefront between
Ocean View Avenue and Brighton
10th Street at around 6 pm
and removed two jackets among
other miscellaneous items.
Auto body flop
A weasel threatened an auto
mechanic with a pistol for $250 at
a Neptune Avenue auto body shop
on Nov. 18.
The victim told police that
the goon paid a security deposit
to get work done on his car from
the repair shop between W. 20th
and W. 22nd streets, then came
back asking for the money back
at around 5 pm and followed the
mechanic to an ATM to withdraw
the funds.
Medical burns
A ruffian threatened to burn
down an Ocean Parkway hospital
on Nov. 18.
Police said the knuckle-dragger
attempted to light the curtains
at the medical center between Avenue
Z and Shore Parkway at 2:10
am and bit an officer and injured
another’s neck when trying to restrain
him.
Fur filcher
A highway robber took furs
and a Michael Kors purse from
a car parked on Neptune Avenue
on Nov. 18.
Victim told police she parked
her car between Ocean Parkway
and Brighton 3rd Street around
10 pm and upon her return noticed
the missing items.
— Joe Hiti
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Diamond heist
Two frauds took a women’s diamond
ring from her hand on Coney
Island Avenue on Nov. 24.
The victim told police she was
with the two weasels getting the
ring appraised at a store at the
intersection of Avenue R to sell it
around 4:30 pm, when the scammers
took it and fled from the
scene in the victim’s car.
Battery burglary
Pirates broke into an Avenue
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U apartment and stole a vape and
Samsung battery on Nov. 24.
Victim told police the robbers
came into the home at the intersection
of W. Sixth Street through
an unlocked window around 9:35
pm and stole the goods.
Three’s company
Three brutes viciously burglarized
an E. 15th storefront of
miscellaneous items on Nov. 17.
An employee told police that
the savages attacked him with a
metal pipe and metal knuckles at
the store near the intersection of
Sheepshead Bay Road at around
9 pm and left without paying for
the stolen merchandise.
Phone pillagers
Three bandits stole a man’s iPhone
on E. 18th Street on Nov. 23.
The victim told police that
the brigands knocked him to the
ground near the intersection
of Avenue X at around 4 am and
lifted his phone from his pocket.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Black jacked
A robber threatened to shoot a
man if he didn’t give him his casino
winnings on 85th Street on
Nov. 22.
The victim told cops that the
ruffian rear-ended his car on the
corner of 85th Street and 14th Avenue
at 6:15 am as he was driving
back from a Queens casino, before
demanding the victim’s earnings
and smacking him with his semiautomatic
gun — and then running
off with over $4,800.
A bat friend
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
hitting his friend in the face
with a bat on 76th Street on Nov.
20.
The victim told police that his
friend allegedly smacked him in
the face repeatedly with the bat
between 18th and 19th avenues at
5:30 pm following a heated argument.
The victim suffered bleeding,
redness, and swelling to his face,
and was rushed to Maimonides
Medical Center, according to authorities.
Violent robbery
A brute struck a man and ran
off with his wallet on Kings Highway
on Nov. 24.
The victim said that the
bruiser approached him while
he was sleeping on the N train at
the Kings Highway station at 2:05
am, and hit him multiple times
in the face while saying “F--- you,
f-----,” before taking the victim’s
wallet from his pocket, containing
$120.
Ladder looter
A thief used a ladder to steal
$900 from a Bay 13th Street house
on Nov. 21.
The victim told cops that the
bandit used a ladder in the backyard
to climb into the house between
Cropsey and Bath avenues
at 10 am, where the perp snagged
$900 before running off.
— Rose Adams
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Bag bandit
A thief nabbed $1,050 worth of a
woman’s belongings from a Court
Street bar on Nov. 23.
The victim told cops that a bandit
ran off with her brown paper
bag, which she placed on a shelf at
the bar between Huntington and
Nelson streets at around 1 am. The
bag contained $1050 worth of her
belongings, including her purse,
her wallet, a dress, her keys, her
driver’s license, her green card,
$400 worth of makeup, and various
other items.
Peddle punk
A bandit stole a bike off of State
Street on Nov. 24.
The victim told cops that the
thief snagged his $900 bike and
its $95 lock from between Smith
Street and Boerum Place at 6 pm.
Stay warm
A thief made off with a $900
down jacket on Union Street on
Nov. 23.
The victim told cops that she
left the black jacket on a bench between
Bond Street and the Gowanus
Canal at 9:40 am, and realized
minutes later that the coat
was gone.
Plate pilferer
A filcher ran off with $146
worth of ceramic plates on Van
Brunt Street on Nov. 22.
The victim told cops that the
looter snatched the delivery package
containing the breakfast plates
from his stoop between Dikeman
and Coffey street at 2:21 am.
— Rose Adams
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Persistent creep
A slimeball harassed a woman
after she refused to give him her
phone number on Flatbush Avenue
on Nov. 15.
The victim told cops the creep
followed her to her job near Atlantic
Avenue at around 2:00 pm, and
asked for her number — before
yelling at her when she refused.
Purse pilferer
Some weasel tried to mug a
woman on St. Marks Avenue on
Nov. 19.
The victim told police that
the pirate approached near Flatbush
at around 10:50 pm and tried
to snatch her purse — but the
thief couldn’t wrestle it from her
hands.
Pretty pilferer
A fashionable thief stole tons of
makeup from a Flatbush Avenue
store on Nov. 19.
An employee told police that
the pilferer swiped $813 from a
Sephora near Atlantic Avenue at
around 7:24 pm and ran off.
Crazy cabbie
A cab driver assaulted a woman
on Fifth Avenue on Nov. 18.
The victim told cops that the
driver dropped her off near First
Street at around 9:30 am when she
got in a dispute with the driver,
who pushed her out of the cab.
When the victim entered the cab
to retrieve her phone, the brute
shoved her again.
A whole mess
Some guy threw a fit in Third
Avenue Whole Foods after being
accused of stealing on Nov. 20.
An employee told police that
they suspected the agitator of
stealing from the green grocer
near Third Street at around 10:30
am, when he began throwing stuff
around and cursing at employees.
— Ben Verde