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Fed agent shoots dog
By Jessica Parks
Brooklyn Paper
An off-duty Secret Service
agent killed a dog in Windsor
Terrace on Monday night,
shooting the animal after it
allegedly charged him.
The special agent with
the federal law enforcement
agency claims the dog, a Belgian
Shepherd, charged him
on Caton Place near E. Eighth
Street at 9:45 pm, when the
agent pulled out his weapon
and slew the pet, according to
a spokesman for the US Secret
Service, who described
the dog as “unrestrained and
aggressive.”
The dog was leashed at
the time of the incident, according
to the Secret Service
rep, but had escaped from
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TREES...
tive.”
The agency plans to eliminate
83 trees, 52 to make way
for a grand paved plaza at the
Myrtle Avenue and St. Edwards
Street corner of the
park, and another 31 to accommodate
a redesign of the
area near Myrtle Avenue and
Washington Park.
The upgrades includes an
expansion of Fort Greene
Park’s adult fitness area, the
reconstruction of the basketball
court, and tentative plans
to tear up and replace the sidewalk
at St. Edwards Street,
which Rodriguez specifically
noted in his decision, saying
the Parks Department failed to
explain why those aspects of
the project constituted minor
maintenance and repairs.
The Myrtle Avenue and St.
Edwards Street corner would
transform into a grand corner
entrance that leads to the
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument,
which requires leveling
some grassy mounds,
creating a paved walkway
to the memorial, and chopping
down trees.
The head of Fort Greene
Conservancy, a non-profit
that works closely with the
city on the park’s upkeep and
supports the redesign, argued
that chopping down the trees
would allow for younger trees,
shrubs, and ferns — collectively
known as “understory
growth” — to flourish, providing
a better habitat for Brooklyn’s
birds and bugs as well as
help prevent erosion.
She said the changes are
long overdue, and looks forward
to beginning work on the
park, which has not seen any
significant public investment
in last half century.
“Last week’s ruling determined
that NYC Parks needs
to more thoroughly document
and justify the project,” said-
Rosamond Fletcher, head of
Fort Greene Conservancy.
“We hope that the matter will
be resolved soon so that the
park, in particular the north
side that has not seen significant
capital investment since
the 1970s, is able to benefit
from new infrastructure, ADA
accessible entrances, native
plantings, and greater recreational
amenities.”
The years-in-the-works
plans stalled when Friends of
Fort Greene Park and Richard
Lippes, a prominent lawyer
for the environmentalist organization
the Sierra Club sued
the city in April, because they
worried the concrete paving
would create a hot zone that
could harm the surrounding
wildlife.
This marks the second
time the Fort Greene group
successfully took the city to
court, after the advocates’s
last lawsuit unveiled that the
agency lied about the health
of dozens of the trees to advance
their plan.
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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
DUMBO–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
Bank robber
A rogue robbed a Flatbush
Avenue bank on Jan. 10.
An employee told police
that the bandit passed her a
note that said “this is a robbery,
big bills only, no dye
pack” inside the financial institution
near Nevins Street,
when the teller handed over
$1,000.
Bad mom
Police arrested a woman
suspected of hitting her two
children at a Tillary Street
hotel on Jan. 5.
The 12-year-old victim told
police that her mom hit her
several times in the face with
her phone near Flatbush Avenue
Ext. at 4:07 pm, before
grabbing the other one-yearold
squeezing his cheeks aggressively.
Cops caught up with the
mother and arrested her on
felony assault charges.
Co-worker drama
An electrical worker broke
his colleague’s nose on Washington
Street on Jan. 8.
The victim told police that
the baddie whacked him in
the head with his construction
hat near Plymouth Street
at 2:30 pm.
The victim went to hospital,
where doctors diagnosed
him with a broken nose, according
to authorities.
Piece of trash
Some scumbag punched a
public housing employee on
Sands Street on Jan. 10.
The victim told police
that he was picking up trash
near Gold Street at 2 pm when
the nogoodnik walloped him
three times.
Scooter scrap
A wretch hit a woman with
a broken scooter on Bridge
Street on Jan. 11.
The victim told police the
criminal hit her near Fulton
Street at 7 pm, causing her to
suffer a skull fracture, a broken
cheek bone, and bleeding
from the brain.
What a drag!
Some cur dragged a woman
out of an F train while trying
to steal her bag at Bergen
Street on Dec. 30.
The victim told police that
the thief grabbed her gym bag
aboard the train near Smith
Street at 10:30 am, but the victim
held on — causing her to
be dragged off the train.
Bail scammer
A charlatan scammed a
man out of almost $10,000
at Flatbush Avenue Ext. on
Jan. 9.
The victim told police that
the shyster told him that he
needed $9,600 to bail out the
victim’s son from jail, so the
victim met with him near
Gold Street at around 2 pm
and handed him the cash —
before he realized that he’d
been tricked.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Bat beating
Police arrested a bodega
owner who allegedly attacked
a customer inside his Fulton
Street store with a baseball
bat on Jan. 11.
The victim told police that
the suspect told him to “Get
the f–k out” of his Clinton
Avenue store at 12:55 pm,
before the suspect allegedly
grabbed a bat from behind
the register and allegedly
smacked him in the head
and shoulder.
Cops arrived at the scene
15 minutes later and arrested
the man on felony assault
charges, according to police
reports.
Bodega bandit
Police arrested a man for
allegedly robbing a guy at a
Lafayette Avenue bodega on
Jan. 6.
The victim told police that
the man allegedly shoved him
and grabbed his bag inside
the store near Grand Avenue
at 2:40 pm.
Police arrived at the scene
and arrested the guy on felony
robbery charges, according
to the authorities.
Cab crooks
Three gunmen held up a
cab driver on Lexington Avenue
on Jan. 7.
The victim told police that
the three scoundrels got into
the car between Grand and
Classon avenues at around
8:15 pm, when one of them
pulled out a gun, while another
ne’er-do-well snatched
his phone and cash.
Pop pilferers
Two blade-wielding bandits
stole drinks from a Myrtle
Avenue bodega on Jan. 10.
The victim told police that
the scumbags nabbed lemonade
and a smoothie without
paying at the Fleet Place eatery
at around 1:20 am.
Pumpkin spice
A reprobate attacked a guy
with a pumpkin at Washington
Park on Jan. 9.
The victim told police that
he was arguing with his assailant,
who grabbed the gourd
and flung it at his head between
Willoughby and Dekalb
avenues at 6:10 pm, before
punching him.
Gang attack
A group of villains roughed
up a guy on Irving Place on
Jan. 12.
A witness told police that
the four knaves held a guy
down and beat him up between
Putnam Avenue and
Fulton Street at 5:40 am.
Police rushed to the scene
and found that the victim, who
also had two stab wounds on
his back and a slashed wrist,
according to the authorities.
—Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens-Cobble
Hill–Red Hook
Grocery goon
A hungry bandit looted a
Hoyt Street supermarket on
Jan. 10.
An employee told police
that the lawbreaker broke into
the store between Warren and
Baltic streets sometime between
1:30 am and 5:13 am,
and stole $2,802 worth of cash
and groceries.
Scooter looter
A highway robber stole a
Razor scooter parked on Clinton
Street on Jan. 9.
The victim told police that
he left the scooter near Warren
Street at around 4:15 pm, when
the jerk hopped on the $80
two-wheeler and rode off.
Package pilferer
A package pilferer lifted a
$600 piece of mail from outside
a King Street resident on
Christmas Eve.
The victim told police that
the villain grabbed the package
from the house near Richards
Street at around 4:13 pm,
making off with a pair of 18
karat gold earrings.
— Rose Adams
78TH PRECINCT
park slope
Act of hate
A scumbag defaced a picture
of a famed gay rights activist
at a Fifth Avenue bar
on Jan. 4.
An employee told police
that the lout scrawled “JEW”
on a portrait of LGBT activist
Edith Windsor inside the
watering near Fifth Street at
around 8 pm.
MTA Menace
A knife-wielding worm
menaced an MTA employee
inside the Atlantic Avenue station
on Jan. 9.
The victim told police that
the nogoodnik brandished the
knife inside the station near
Flatbush Avenue at 2:15 am,
and threatened the worker.
— Ben Verde
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its owners at the time of the
incident.
Police backed up the federal
agent’s account, releasing
a statement that claimed
the dog charged him as he
rounded the corner, leading
the off-duty agent to fire off
a single, fatal round.
Walker Blankinship, who
manages the nearby Kensington
Stables across the street
from the Caton Place shooting,
said he was alerted to the
incident when he heard a single
gunshot, followed by the
shouts of the dog’s apparent
owner.
“There were three people
on the corner and one guy was
cursing loudly,” Blankinship
said. “He was saying ‘I can’t
f—–g believe you let the gun
go off.’”
An off-duty Secret Service
agent fatally shot a
Belgian Shepherd, like
the one pictured here.
Photo by Pixabay
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
A man doused the altar
of a Greenpoint church
in juice on Jan. 12, interrupting
mass in an act
the Brooklyn Diocese
described as a desecration
of the Kings County
house of worship.
Video shows a 33-yearold
man waltz up to the altar
of St. Anthony of Padua
on Manhattan Avenue near
Noble Street at around 9:30
am, before pouring the
red juice on the holy table
and a bible, and spraying
some of the liquid on
Father Jossy Vattothu —
staining the priest’s robes
and leaving him in shock,
the pastor said.
“During my years as
a priest, nothing like this
has ever happened,” Father
Vattothu said.
Fortunately, the vandal
missed the holy sacraments
stored on the altar
for communion — allowing
Vattothu to proceed
with mass.
“It is a miracle that the
bread and wine were not
damaged, and I was able to
continue the Mass, consecrating
the bread and wine
into the body and blood
of Jesus Christ,” said Vattothu.
Congregants held the
juice-throwing suspect
in the church for authorities,
who took the suspect
to Woodhull Hospital for
evaluation — but did not
arrest him, cops said.
The incident follows
acts of vandalism targeting
Catholic churches
throughout the city, including
the destruction
of a $5,000 statue of St.
Jude at Out Lady of Mount
Carmel in Williamsburg
on Nov. 3, and the more recent
vandalism of Sacred
Heart of Jesus in Bayside,
Queens on Jan. 12, when
someone scrawled gang
signs on the church and
school there.
The juicing further
comes on the heels of a
string of anti-Semitic attacks
against Orthodox
Jews throughout the borough,
which have led city
and state law enforcement
agencies to increase patrols
in Brooklyn.
“I think right now,
people are scared, given
the current environment
of anti-Semitic and anti-
Catholic incidents,” said
Monsignor Anthony Hernandez.
Father Vattothu said
he will pray for his attacker.
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