84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Subway swipe!
A knife-wielding knave nabbed
a woman’s phone on the R train at
Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center on
July 27.
The victim told cops that the
good-for-nothing threatened her
with the blade on the subway’s Bay
Ridge-bound platform at 10 pm, before
grabbing her phone and running
out of the station.
Lashing out
Two armed shoplifters attacked
a beauty store employee while stealing
fake lashes on Livingston Street
on July 29.
The victim told police that the
thieves tried to bag mink eyelashes
from the shop between Bond Street
and Hanover Place at 12:57 pm, and
when the employee tried to stop
them, one of the gunmen hit her in
the face with the fi rearm, while the
other punched her in the face.
Barred!
Some goon beat up a man inside
a Duffi eld Street housing complex
on July 29.
The victim told police that the
reprobate began yelling at him inside
the hallway of the complex
between Fulton and Willoughby
streets at 10:20 am, before whacking
him repeatedly with a metal object.
Paramedics brought the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment,
according to the authorities.
Sit on that!
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
attacking a guy with a chair on
Prince Street on July 31.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly hit the man in the
face with the seat at the storage site
near Concord Street at 8:45 am.
Police soon arrived at the scene
and arrested the man on felony assault
charges, according to police
reports.
Legging it
A thief stole a bunch of jeans
from a Fulton Street department
store on July 28.
The victim told police that the pirate
walked out of the store at Gallatin
Place at 3:25 pm with more than
$1,000-worth of ill-gotten trousers.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Teen takeout
A gunman shot a teen at Park Avenue
on July 31.
The 17-year-old victim told police
that he was shot in the abdomen
COURIER L 8 IFE, AUGUST 7-13, 2020
Pilferer steals cash
from Park Slope church
A bandit stole funds from St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Photo by Todd Maisel
when he got out of his car at N. Elliott
Place at 1 am.
The victim ran away for one
block before collapsing. Paramedics
rushed the man to Methodist
Hospital for treatment, according to
police reports.
Time out!
A brute threw a rock at an employee
of a Fort Greene Place school
on July 28.
The victim told police that the
victim tried to escort the man off of
school property at Dekalb Avenue at
6:10 am when the lout launched the
rock at him.
The victim sustained cuts and
bruises to his ankle as a result of
the incident.
Steal n’ slash
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stabbing a woman after stealing
her phone on N. Oxford Walk on
July 28.
The victim told police that the
suspect stole her phone, and she was
trying to get it back between Myrtle
and Park avenues just after 6 pm,
but the man allegedly stabbed her
with a kitchen knife several times.
Cops arrested the man shortly
after the incident, police said.
Caned
Cops cuffed a teen for allegedly
hitting a store employee with a cane
on Flatbush Avenue Ext. on July 29.
The victim told cops that the
worker pushed the 17-year-old suspect
out of the store at Fulton Street
at 1:10 am during an argument, and
the man then allegedly hit him in
the head with the stick.
Cops arrived at the scene and arrested
the young man on felony assault
charges, according to police.
Looted on a leak
A sneak thief raided a guy’s car
while he was in the bathroom on
Navy Street on July 27.
The victim told police that he
left his vehicle with the engine running
and window open at Park Avenue
at 9:30 am to relieve himself at
a nearby porta potty, but when he
came back he saw that someone had
swiped two of his bags.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Card swiper
A thief snagged a woman’s credit
card from a car parked on Luquer
Street sometime between Aug. 3 and
Aug. 4.
The victim told police that the
bandit used a razor cutter to break
into her locked car parked between
Clinton Street and Hamilton Avenue,
before snatching the victim’s
$500 wallet, driver’s license, social
security card, and credit car —
which the good-for-nothin’ used on
a shopping spree.
Bag snagged
A nogoodnik stole an airbag from
a car parked on Warren Street sometime
between Aug. 2 and Aug. 3.
The victim told police that the
sneak thief broke into the car near
Hicks Street overnight, before stealing
the seat’s $750 airbag.
Bike burglary
A pilferer nabbed a bike from
Richards Street on Aug. 1.
The victim told police that the
bandit grabbed the $600 red bike
that he had left on the corner of
Dikeman Streets unlocked for 25
minutes at 11 am.
Masked bandit
A thief snatched three packages
of face masks from a Clinton Street
lobby on July 27.
The victim told police that the pirate
stole a package containing $72
worth of face masks from the vestibule
of an apartment building between
Degraw and Kane streets at
around 3 pm.
— Rose Adams
BY TODD MAISEL
Police are still looking for the
man who pilfered the charity collection
box at a Park Slope church
shortly after services on July 31.
According to the Brooklyn Diocese,
the suspect breached the collection
box at St. Thomas Aquinas
Church on Ninth Street and removed
an undetermined amount of
cash. The church reported the incident
to the 78th Precinct, and detectives
are now examining video
evidence collected at the scene.
Sources say the theft was discovered
at around 4 pm on July
31 by a Franciscan sister who
was sanitizing the church pews.
Church leaders believe the theft
occurred after 1:30 pm that day,
with the thief slipping in after the
noon services ended.
The theft comes after months
of services being shut down because
of the COVID-19 pandemic,
limiting churches’ collections
both for their own operations and
for other charitable causes.
“I am saddened by what happened
inside our beautiful church
yesterday, but I am grateful to God
that no one was injured,” said Father
Willy Kingsley Ndi, administrator
of St. Thomas Aquinas Church, on
Saturday. “I understand in these
unprecedented times, many people
have lost their jobs and need
assistance, but this not how you
turn to the church for help. My
message to those in need is to ring
our doorbell, don’t vandalize and
steal, and let us help you.”