88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Close shave
A knife-toting villain robbed a
straphanger on the 5 train near the
Nevins Street station on Feb. 1.
The victim told police that the
rogue told him to hand over his
phone or “I’m going to stab you” on
the Flatbush-bound train at 1 pm,
before grabbing his cellphone and
running out of the station at Flatbush
Avenue.
Tool brute!
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
hitting another guy with a drill at a
Clinton Avenue auto body shop on
Feb. 4.
The victim told police that his
alleged attacker got into a war of
words about a shared locker between
Flushing and Park avenues
at 1:10 pm when the suspect allegedly
grabbed the tool and hit him in
the arm.
Police arrived at the scene at 1:45
pm and arrested the suspect on felony
assault charges, according to
police reports.
Push comes to shove
Some nasty nogoodnik assaulted
a guy over a dispute about maskwearing
at a Clinton Avenue building
on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that the
brute hit him in the face and pushed
a cart into him near Myrtle Avenue
around 8:30 pm.
Smoked out!
Nighttime prowlers raided a Fulton
Street smoke shop on Feb. 1.
An employee told police that two
knaves busted the store’s gate at S.
Elliott Place at 3 am and took $1,800
stored inside two cigar boxes.
Highway robbery!
Carjackers stole a woman’s vehicle
parked under the Brooklyn-
Queens Expressway at Park Avenue
between Jan. 29 and Jan. 30.
The victim told police she left
her car near N. Portland Avenue at
6 am, and when she came back the
next day at 10 pm, it was gone.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Daylight robbery
A pair of purloiners held up a guy
at a Court Street bank on Feb. 3.
The victim told police that the
bandits pushed a gun to his stomach
between Schermerhorn and
Livingston streets at 3 pm, before
forcing him to withdraw $990 at a
nearby bank, which they stole along
with his wallet and AirPod case.
COURIER LIFE, F 8 EBRUARY 12-18, 2021
Man cuffed for fatal shooting
at Brooklyn gas station
Police look for clues at the BP gas station on Pennsylvania Avenue after the April
19, 2020 fatal shooting of Michael Ingram. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Check cheat
A fraudster stole almost $9,000
from a Furman Street man by forging
a check from him between Jan.
4 and Feb. 2.
The victim told police that he
mailed a check to a New Jersey
insurance company at a mailbox
between Atlantic Avenue and Joralemon
Street, but the huckster
changed the amount from $2,637 to
$8,960 and altered the payee, before
cashing it.
Lens capture
Some sneak thief bagged nearly
$5,000 worth of camera equipment
from a car on Water Street on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that she
left her trunk open at Washington
Street at 4:25 pm, and the opportunist
grabbed the photo devices.
Double dip
A shyster used a woman’s bank
card to fraudulently cash almost
$3,000 on Montague Street and in
Manhattan on Jan. 26.
The victim told police that he
ne’er-do-well stole her new card in
the mail sometime between midnight
and 11 pm, and withdrew $1,000
from a bank near Clinton Street, before
getting an extra $1,948 from a fi -
nancial branch in the Big Apple.
Sound and vision
A home invader looted a Dean
Street residence on Feb. 2.
The victim told police that the
marauder got into the building near
Third Avenue and took two speakers
and a television.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Piggy back ride!
Cops cuffed a man on felony assault
charges after he allegedly
jumped on the back of an offi cer trying
to arrest him on Bay 26th Street
on Feb 1.
The police victim told his fellow
Boys in Blue that he was attempting
to cuff the 41-year-old suspect when
he jumped on the back of the cop
between Benson Avenue and 86th
Street just before 10 pm.
The victim struggled to cuff him
and suffered back pain, cops say.
What a tool!
Cops arrested two men for allegedly
smacking another man and assaulting
him with a shovel on Bay
41st Street on Feb. 2.
The victim told police that he got
into a shouting match over a parking
spot with the one defendant
at the corner of Benson Avenue at
7:48 pm, when the suspect allegedly
smacked the victim in the face with
the shovel and his co-conspirator
punched him.
Police showed up to the scene
and arrested both suspects, according
to police reports.
Scratch ‘n’ dash
Two thieves stole more than
$9,000 worth of scratch-off lottery
tickets from a Kings Highway bodega
on Feb. 4.
An employee told police that the
looters nabbed the display case containing
all the lottery tickets from
the store by W. 10th Street at 4:45 pm
and fl ed in a black Honda.
Gym rat
A bandit broke into a man’s gym
locker on 86th Street and stole his
wallet on Feb. 3.
The victim told police that the
sneak thief broke into his locked
locker inside the gym near 20th Avenue
and took his wallet containing
$120, his ID, and his credit card, which
the bandit used at a GameStop.
— Rose Adams
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
A California resident accused
of gunning down a New Jersey
man at a Brooklyn gas station last
April has been brought back to
New York to face murder charges,
police announced on Feb. 7..
Dashawn Garland, 28, of Inglewood,
California was extradited
from the Golden State and
brought in to the 75th Precinct
stationhouse in Brooklyn on Feb.
5 for his alleged role in the April
2020 killing of Michael Ingram,
33, of East Orange, New Jersey.
Ingram was fatally shot multiple
times in the arm and torso
during an alleged exchange with
Garland at the BP gas station on
Pennsylvania Avenue near Linden
Boulevard in East New York
at about 8:53 am on April 19. The
victim later died at Brookdale
University Hospital.
The motive for the shooting,
and Garland’s connection to Ingram,
were not disclosed by authorities.
Sources familiar with the investigation
said a witness to the
shooting had positively identified
Garland out of a photo
lineup as the murder back on
June 15, 2020. During the course
of their investigation, detectives
learned that Garland had relocated
to California.
The Kings County District
Attorney’s office secured a
grand jury indictment against
Garland in January, according
to police sources. Garland was
subsequently arrested in Inglewood
on Jan. 29 and held at the
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office
before being extradited back
to New York.
Members of the 75th Precinct
Detective Squad and the Kings
County DA brought Garland
back to Brooklyn on Feb. 5 for
prosecution.