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Masked punk violently robs straphanger
from a Joralemon Street
chain store on Jan. 21.
The victim told police that
the scofflaw cut loose the bags
with a wire cutter inside the
store near Court Street at 10:55
am, and then threatened a store
employee before fleeing toward
Clinton Street.
Ambush
A trio of brutes jumped a
guy at the Atlantic Avenue R
train station on Jan. 24.
The victim told police
that the villains waltzed up
to him and kicked him and
punched him at Fourth Avenue
at 11:50 pm, before taking
his bag and fleeing on a
Manhattan-bound train.
Bag brute
Some jerk assaulted a
woman and snatched her bag
on Sidney Place on Jan. 25.
The victim told police that
the lout aggressively grabbed
her bag, causing her to fall to
the ground near Aitken Place
at 1:30 pm.
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Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Stick up
Two weasels held up a guy
on Fulton Street on Jan. 18.
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The victim told police that
the reprobates stopped him in
the street saying, “Give me
all you got or you can get a
knife in your side” at Hudson
Avenue at 7 pm.
Package pirate
A package thief broke a
woman’s toe at a Washington
Avenue building on Jan.
21.
The victim told police
that she caught the pirate
red-handed trying to take a
package between Gates Avenue
and Fulton Street at 4:20
pm and tried to stop him, but
he stepped on her foot and
fractured her toe, before running
off.
before the man pilferer fled
on a Queens-bound G train.
Elder assault
A brute assaulted an elderly
woman on a B25 Bus on Fulton
Street on Dec. 31.
The victim told police that
the woman whacked her in the
face several times at Ashland
Place at 9:25 pm, before fleeing
out of the bus on Fulton
Street toward Flatbush Avenue
Ext.
Subway stabber
A knave stabbed a straphanger
on a G train at Hoyt-
Schermerhorn station on
Jan. 24.
The victim told police that
the bad guy started cursing
at him aboard the train near
the Fulton Street stop at 6:15
pm, before lunging at him and
stabbing him in his thigh.
The victim got off the train
and walked to Brooklyn Hospital
for treatment.
—Kevin Duggan
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Money grab
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing an ATM machine
in front of a Smith Street
grocery store on Jan. 25.
Patrolling officers found
the man after he allegedly
put the machine from the
store on the corner of Union
Street into his van at around
3:30 am.
Police found him 20 minutes
later in Clinton Hill and
charged him with possession
of stolen property, reckless
driving, and petty larceny,
among other charges.
Package pilferer
A bandit snatched two
packages from a First Place
stoop sometime between Jan.
20 and 26.
The victim told police
that the thief snagged the
two boxes, containing $44
worth of nose-cleansing salt
and a $145 massage gun, from
the stoop between Court and
Smith streets sometime between
3:10 pm on Jan. 20 and
6:40 pm on Jan. 26.
Food filcher
A burglar ran off with
$29 worth of food in front
of an Imlay Street building
on Jan. 27.
The victim told police that
the bandit snatched 30 pitas,
Delivery defend
A deliveryman fought off
two marauders on Steuben
Street on Jna. 21.
The victim told police that
the nogoodniks grabbed him
and punched him, before trying
to steal his two-wheeler
and belongings between Park
and Myrtle avenues at 9 pm,
but the victim fought them off
until they fled the scene.
What a jerk!
Some jerk stole a boy’s
jacket on the subway platform
at Fulton Street on Jan. 22.
The 13-year-old victim told
police that the brigand told
him to take off his puffer coat
and give it to him at the Kensington
bound track of the G
train station at Lafayette Avenue,
which the youngster did,
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Comic villain
A masked swindler attacked
a guy on the subway at
Atlantic Avenue on Jan. 4.
The victim told police that
the ski-mask donning dirtbag
punched him on a southbound
D train near Fourth Avenue
at 1 pm and grabbed his
backpack.
Bag bandit
A thief nabbed two handbags
three loaves of bread, and
four quarts of milk that had
been delivered to the building
between Verona and Pioneer
streets at 7 am before
biking away.
Clothes crook
A thief ran off with $778
worth of kids clothes from
a store on Smith Street on
Jan. 23.
An employee told police
that the lout snagged 25 girls’
bike shorts, a kids’ fur coat,
and several articles of multicolored
clothing from the
store between Court and Clinton
street at 3:23 pm, before
running off.
— Rose Adams
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Park Slope
Walloped!
Some brute assaulted a guy
in an Atlantic Avenue mall
on Jan. 21.
Surveillance footage shows
the criminal punching the victim
in the mouth inside the
shopping center near Flatbush
Avenue at around 4:50
pm, causing a cut in the victim’s
lip.
Dine and dash!
Three knuckleheads ripped
off a Fifth Avenue restaurant
on Jan. 25.
An employee told police
that the drunken trio ran up a
tab of $317 dollars in the restaurant
near President Street
at around 10:30 pm, downing
four pitchers of margaritas
and six shots of tequila
and several dishes of food —
before sneaking out and fleeing
in a taxi.
Jacked
Some thief robbed a woman
in Atlantic Avenue government
office on Jan. 21.
The victim told police
that she left her headphones
on the counter inside the office
near Fort Greene Place
at around 6 pm, when the pilferer
swiped them.
Vandals
Some rascals vandalized
a Third Avenue warehouse
on Jan. 18.
The property owner told
police that the scoundrels
broke into the warehouse
near First Street at around
noon and spray painted on
the heavy equipment that
was in storage.
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