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88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Sneaker thief
Police arrested a man for
allegedly stealing a man’s
pricey sneakers at the Lafayette
Avenue C train station
on Feb. 18.
The victim told police that
the suspect and four others allegedly
snatched his $1,000
Balenciaga shoes at Fulton
Street at 3:15 pm.
Authorities caught up with
the suspect at the station and
arrested him on felony robbery
charges, according to
police reports.
Botched robbery
Two scoundrels jumped a
group of teens and tried to
rob them on Greene Avenue
on Feb. 20.
The victims told police
that the punks demanded
their phones and threatened
to pistol-whip them between
Adelphi Street and Clermont
Avenue at 2 pm, before punching
one of the youngsters in
the face and running off.
Park pilferers
Knife-wielding knaves
jumped a guy in Fort Greene
park on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that
the two villains approached
with a knife near Washington
Park and Willoughby Avenue
at 10:25 pm, before grabbing
the cash from his wallet and
running off.
Slasher
Police arrested a man for
allegedly stabbing another
man on St. James Place on
Feb. 17.
A witness told police that
the the suspect slashed the
man in the neck after an argument
between Dekalb and
Lafayette avenues at 4 am.
First responders rushed to
the scene and found the victim
with a stab wound on his
neck and the abdomen, and
took him to Methodist Hospital
for treatment.
Police caught up with the
man on Classon Avenue at
11:30 am and arrested him
on felony assault charges, according
to the authorities.
Scumbag!
Some brute whacked a
woman in the head with a
bag at Rockwell Place on
Feb. 21.
The victim told police that
the bruiser followed her from
the Dekalb Avenue subway
station at 10:45 pm before
swinging the bag at the back
of her head near Fulton Street
and Lafayette Avenue.
Hookah hurler
Police arrested a guy for
allegedly swinging a glass
hookah base at another person
on Classon Avenue on
Feb. 22.
The victim told police that
the two people had an argument
that escalated between
Myrtle and Park avenues at 10
pm, when the defendant allegedly
swiped the victim with
the smoking device.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens-Cobble
Hill–Red Hook
Choco-holic
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing $36 of chocolate
from a Court Street pharmacy
on Feb. 10.
Employees told police that
the suspect allegedly put several
milk chocolates and truffles
into a Trader Joe’s bag
inside the store on the corner
of Pacific Street at 3:31
pm, before running off with-
out paying.
Cops caught up with the
suspect a week later when
he returned to the store, and
charged him with petty larceny
and criminal possession
of stolen property, according
to police reports.
Cheat sheet
A thief nabbed expensive
bed sheets from a Pacific
Street home on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that
the bandit stole the package,
containing the $70 sheets,
from the vestibule of a residence
between Henry and
Clinton streets at 7 am.
Plate pirate
A filcher snagged two license
plates from a subway
station on Smith/9th Streets
on Feb. 21.
The victim told cops that
he put the two license plates
down while buying a Metro-
Card at the station near Smith
Street at 6 pm, but the pirate
had stolen them by the time he
returned 30 minutes later.
Package pilferer
A thief stole $50 worth of
home goods from a Sullivan
Street porch on Feb. 17.
The victim told police that
the looter nabbed a package
containing two high-end coffee
containers, eco-friendly
soap, and a carrot peeler from
her porch between Van Brunt
and Richards streets at 11:43
am. — Rose Adams
78TH PRECINCT
Park slope
Shots fired
“Shotspotter” technology
detected gunfire on Fifth Avenue
on Feb. 18.
The device picked up two
rounds of gunfire near Warren
Street at around 6:13 pm,
but no 911 call was made, and
police could not find evidence
at the scene.
Trespasser
Cops cuffed a woman
for allegedly trespassing at
an Eighth Avenue homeless
shelter on Feb. 17.
Shelter employees told police
that the suspect entered
the shelter near 14th Street
at around 2:15 pm after being
banned from the shelter,
and refused to leave.
Authorities arrived and
cuffed the women.
Miscreant
Some trespasser crept on
a Bergen Street apartment
building on Feb. 21.
Residents of the building
told police that they saw the
prowler on the second floor
of the building near Fifth Avenue
at around 1:15 am, but
when they confronted him,
he ran off.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–Windsor
Terrace
Bottle bruiser
Some madman assaulted
a guy on Fifth Avenue on
Feb. 17.
The victim told police that
the villain walloped him in the
head with a glass bottle near
48th Street at around 10:40
pm, causing cuts and bleeding
to his head.
Three on one
Cops cuffed two men who
allegedly robbed a victim on
Seventh Avenue on Feb. 22.
The victim told police that
the two 21-year-olds suspects,
along with another person
who remains at large, allegedly
pushed them against a
car near 62nd Street at 10 pm,
before grabbing the victim’s
phone and fleeing in a Toyota
Camry.
Authorities caught up
with two of the suspects and
slapped them with robbery
charges.
Hacked!
Two shysters scammed an
Uber driver on 61st Street on
Feb. 23.
The victim told police that
he picked up the two scammers
near Eighth Avenue
at around 11:45, when one
of them grabbed his phone
and transferred $871 out of
the drivers Uber account into
his personal account while the
victim was distracted.
Ne’er-do-well
Some pirate brutally
robbed a guy on Third Avenue
on Feb. 22.
The victim told police that
the pillager punched him in
the face and grabbed his chain
near 46th Street at around 4:58
pm, before elbowing his friend
in the face and fleeing.
Hotel pilferer
A cat burglar ripped off
a hotel room on 61st Street
on Feb. 14.
The victim told police that
the weasel broke into his room
in the hotel near Eighth Avenue
at around noon and made
off with a $700 laptop and
$400.
— Ben Verde
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By Meg Capone
for Brooklyn Paper
A gunman shot and killed
a man inside a Downtown
Brooklyn public-housing
complex Feb. 17.
Witnesses reported hearing
gunshots on the first floor of
the Farragut Houses on Sands
Street near Gold Street at 3:35
pm, and police rushed to the
scene to find the 35-yearold
victim suffering a bullet
wound in his face.
“I heard, ‘bang, bang,
bang,’ and then just started
running,” said a resident of
the housing complex, who refused
to give her name.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital,
where he was pronounced
dead, cops said.
Police swarmed the entrance
to the houses and taped
off front door following the
shooting, while a helicopter
circled overhead.
According to one woman,
police allowed renters to enter
the building through a stairwell
at the rear of the building,
but residents were denied
access to the elevator for the
14-floor for hours.
Meanwhile, children at
the nearby PS 307 elementary
school were locked down
in their classrooms, and their
parents were unable to retrieve
them as a result of the shooting,
the woman said.
“I’ve been trying to get my
kids out of school, but I can’t
because the school is in lockdown,”
said Latoya Turner,
who has children attending
the York Street elementary
school. “It means the kids are
safe, but it’s still scary.”
Police guarded the entrance to the Farragut Houses
in the wake of a fatal shooting Monday evening.
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