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Barclays brawl
Police arrested a man they
suspect of beating up a guy
at the Atlantic Avenue Barclays
Center subway station
on July 15.
The victim told police the
man demanded money from
him, and — after he refused
— punched him in the face
just before 2 p.m.
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Police seized the suspect on
the spot and slapped him with
felony robbery charges.
Uncivil discourse
Two louts robbed a man on
Fourth Avenue on July 18.
The victim told police he
was arguing with several
men near Warren Street at
1:15 a.m., when one of the
nogoodniks demanded his
wallet.
The victim threw it onto the
street, and one of the crooks
picked it up and fled the scene,
cops said.
Choking incident
A man choked his girlfriend
on Furman Street on
July 20.
The victim told police she
was arguing with her beau
near Montague Street at
11:10 p.m., when he choked
her and slammed her into a
metal fence before snatching
a chain from her neck.
It’s a rental!
A crook stole a man’s
rental car on Smith Street
on July 21.
The victim told police that
he left the car outside a bakery
unlocked — keys in the ignition
and the engine running
— between Dean and Bergen
streets at 12:23 a.m.
He told police he believes
that some villains holding a
Dominos Pizza box across the
street at the time nabbed the
car and bolted.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Bad date
Some sleaze groped,
beat, and robbed a woman
on N. Portland Avenue on
July 16.
The victim told police
she met up with the man
through a dating app, but
that the creep started fondling
her breasts and thigh
asking for sex when she got
into a car with him at Park
Avenue at 3 p.m.
When the woman demanded
he stop, the dirtbag
punched her in the face
and stole $20 from her purse,
before speeding off and leaving
her behind, according
to the authorities.
Teen terror
Two thieves robbed a
teenager on Hanson Place
on July 15.
The 13-year-old boy told
cops the punks waltzed up
near S. Portland Avenue demanding
to know if he was
a member of the Crips street
gang at 9 p.m., when — after
replying that hew was
not, in fact, a member of
the criminal organization
— the thieves nabbed his
book bag.
During the heist, the
young man’s phone fell out
of his shorts and one of the
reprobates snatched it too,
before the pair fled, according
to the authorities.
Sharp thieves
A band of thieves robbed
a teenager on Fort Greene
Place on July 17.
The victim, 15, told police
that the crooks pulled
a knife on him near DeKalb
Avenue at 10:20 p.m., before
nabbing his headphones
and f leeing towards Fulton
Street.
Sibling rivalry
Cops cuffed a woman
they suspect of slashing
her brother with a box cutter
on North Portland Avenue
on July 14.
The victim told cops that
his sibling sliced him across
the gut with the razor between
Park and Myrtle avenues
at 11:15 p.m.
Cops cuffed the suspect
and slapped her with felony
assault charges, according
to the authorities.
Busted
Police arrested a man for
allegedly beating a woman
on St. Edwards Street on
July 20.
The victim told police that
she was heading to a park
to get her brother near Park
Avenue at 11:20 p.m., when
the suspect started punching
and choking her
Cops caught up with him
two days later and slapped
him with felony assault
charges.
— Kevin Duggan
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–Windsor
Terrace
Have a chair
A bruiser beat a man with a
chair after losing a card game
on Eight Avenue on July 21.
The victim told police that
the wacko lost a poker game
between 54th and 55th streets
at around 11 p.m., causing him
to angrily hit the victim over
the head with a chair, cops
said.
Smash and grab
A thief looted an Metropolitan
Transportation Authority
employee’s government
issued car on Fourth
Avenue on July 17.
The victim told police that
she left the MTA vehicle between
43rd and 44th streets at
around 3 p.m., and the swindler
had smashed the driver’s
side window and stolen $487
worth of items by the time
she returned an hour later,
cops said.
Bob the bruiser
Cops arrested a construction
worker for allegedly assaulting
a man with a brick on
51st Street on July 17.
The victim told police
that he began arguing with
the suspect over conditions
at a construction site where
they worked between Second
and Third avenues at around
9:20 a.m., when the argument
escalated, and the suspect allegedly
hit the victim with a
masonry in the back of the
head.
Authorities arrived on the
scene shortly after and took
the victim to NYU Langone
Hospital-Brooklyn, while they
cuffed the suspect on felony
assault charges, according
to police.
Plywood punk
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
hitting another man
with a piece of wood on Seventh
Avenue on July 21.
The victim told police that
he was walking between 49th
and 50th streets, when the suspect
approached and allegedly
hit him with a wooden plank at
around 6:30 p.m., causing severe
bruising, cops said.
First responders tracked
down the man and arrested
him later that day on felony
assault charges, according
to police.
Cigarette thief
A bandit looted a Fourth
Avenue convenience store on
July 22.
Store management told police
that the perp broke the
lock on the front door of the
store near 17th Street, before
stealing $1,000, along
with several cartons of cigarettes
at around 2:30 a.m.,
cops said.
Sunset scumbag
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
beating another man
on Sixth Avenue on July 19.
The victim told police that
he was near 44th Street when
the victim approached and allegedly
hit him in the face repeatedly
at around 5:45 p.m.,
cops said.
— Aidan Graham
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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
A one-time Brooklyn resident
faces 20 years in prison
for allegedly serving Islamic
terrorist group ISIS as a highranking
sniper, according to
federal court documents unsealed
Friday.
Ruslan Maratovich Asainov,
41, has provided training,
services, and personnel to the
designated terrorist organization
Islamic State of Iraq and
al-Sham for the last five years,
according to U.S. Attorney
Richard Donoghue.
The suspect — a naturalized
U.S. citizen born in Kazakhstan
— lived in Brooklyn
from 1998 until December
2013, when he left his Bay
Ridge home to travel to Syria
via Turkey to join ISIS as a
marksman, before rising to
the rank of “emir,” when he
began training other members
and attempting to recruit
additional radicals from the
U.S. — betraying his adopted
country, Donoghue said.
“The defendant, a naturalized
U.S. citizen residing
in Brooklyn, turned his
back on the country that took
him in and joined ISIS, serving
its violent ends in Syria
and attempting to recruit
others to its cause,” stated
Donoghue.
The defendant fought for
ISIS for at least a year after he
arrived in Syria, a U.S. based
informant told agents with the
Federal Bureau of Investigations,
who also reviewed messages
the pair exchanged between
2014 and 2015.
After the informant texted
Asainov about ISIS, he
tried to recruit the English
speaking whistleblower for
the group’s media operations,
telling him that the terrorist
organization would provide
him a job, housing, food, and
a $50 stipend per month, noting
that “even the grandmothers
are coming,” according
to authorities.
In March 2015, Asainov
asked the informant to send
him $2,800 so that he could
buy a scope for his rifle, as well
as other military equipment.
The informant didn’t send the
money, according to a spokesman
for Donoghue.
The American-backed Syrian
Democratic Forces got a
hold of Asainov, detaining
him for several months before
handing him over to federal
agents, who transferred him
to the U.S. on July 18, where
he arrived at John F. Kennedy
International Airport.
Asainov was arraigned before
U.S. Magistrate Judge
Steven Gold Friday afternoon,
who ordered that he
be held without bail until his
next court date, which has
not been set.
He is currently being held
at the federal Metropolitan
Correctional Center in Manhattan,
the same detention facility
that also houses wealthy
financier and accused pedophile
Jeffrey Epstein and —
up until last week — the notorious
drug lord Joaquín “El
Chapo” Guzmán, who has
since been relocated to an
out-of-state prison.
The former Brooklynite held
his head down and answered
Judge Gold’s questions only
reluctantly, and his defense attorney
claimed her client does
not recognize the American
court’s legal authority.
“I think he doesn’t recognize
our courts to be a legitimate
authority and he was
making that point,” Susan
Kellman told reporters outside
the federal courthouse
on Cadman Plaza E. after the
arraignment.
Asainov has not been formally
charged, and federal
prosecutors have 30 days
to make their case before
a grand jury seeking an indictment.
The 5 foot 4 inch defendant
sported a buzz cut and
a short goatee on Friday, and
appeared wearing a white
t-shirt and black pants in
court.
Kellman described him to
reporters as “pleasant” and
“respectful,” adding that he
spoke fluent English from his
15 years of living in Kings
County.
“His English is perfect and
he lived in Brooklyn — he’s a
Brooklyn boy,” she said.
He has family overseas,
but Kellman said she wasn’t
aware whether he had any relations
in the U.S.
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