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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
Dumbo–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
Food filchers
A band of thieves robbed
a food truck on Pearl Street
on Aug. 6.
A worker told police that
the three rakes walked up to
the halal truck between Fulton
and Willoughby streets
and repeatedly smacked one
of his employees with some
sort of club at 4:10 p.m., before
nabbing $300 and making
a run for it toward Borough
Hall.
Climbing burglar
A burglar looted a woman’s
State Street apartment
on Aug. 7.
The victim told cops that
the thief climbed up a fire
escape through an open
window between Bond and
Nevins streets sometime
between 1:30 and 9 a.m.,
before nabbed her laptop,
credit cards, and cash from
her purse.
The brazen bandit also
used the victim’s credit
card for several purchases
afterwards, according to
police.
Hell of a haul!
A thief stole clothes from
a Fulton Street retailer on
Aug. 5.
A witness told police that
the prowler stole a pair of jeans
and several shirts worth a total
of more than $1,100 from
the store near Gallatin Place
at 2:40 p.m.
Pod purloiner
A scoundrel snatched a
woman’s wireless headphone
at a Schermerhorn Street subway
station on Aug. 5.
The victim told cops that
the juvenile delinquent, who
she said looked like a 15-yearold
boy, grabbed her one Apple
AirPod from her left ear
and dashed out the station
near Hoyt Street around
6:20 p.m.
Ransacked!
A scofflaw looted a woman’s
parked car at Brooklyn
Bridge Park on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that
she spied the purloiner enter
her unlocked vehicle at
Furman Street between Joralemon
Street and Atlantic
Avenue at 1:10 a.m.
When she moved to intervene
in the heist, the sneak
got out and fled into a nearby
park with her driver’s license,
passport, debit card and $260
in cash, cops said
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton
Hill
Midnight menace
Gun-armed bandits held
up a man on Fulton Street
on Aug. 7.
The victim told police that
the brigands ambushed him
with a semi-automatic pistol
near Adelphi Street at 12:20
a.m., when they nabbed his
phone and a $20, before fleeing
toward Carlton Avenue,
police said.
Ambush!
Two gunmen robbed a
guy on Carlton Avenue on
Aug. 6.
The victim told cops the
wretches pulled out a pistol
and told him to hand over his
wallet and phone near Lafayette
Avenue at 11:45 p.m.
The outlaws then took his
cash and a MetroCard from
the victim’s money clip, according
to police.
Unchained!
A punk snatched a woman’s
chains at the Nevins Street
subway station on Aug. 5.
The victim told police that
she was heading through a
turnstyle to the Manhattanbound
platform when the reprobate
ripped the golden chain
off her neck near Fulton Street
at 8:45 p.m.
The woman fought to get
back her jewelry and the brute
elbowed her in the mouth before
the robber fled onto a
train, cops said.
Beatdown
Some dirtbag beat up on
old man on Lexington Avenue
on Aug. 9.
The 81-year-old victim told
police that the stranger approached
him and growled,
“I know you,” before hurling
him to the ground between
Grand and Classon avenues
just after 8 a.m.
The victim — who suffered
a broken arm and a head
injury — later explained to
investigators he didn’t know
his assailant, who fled the
scene toward Classon Avenue
following the assault,
cops said.
— Kevin Duggan
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Stroller savage
A wretch assaulted a
woman with a stroller on Flatbush
Avenue on Aug. 12.
The victim told police
that she was walking near
the Grand Army Plaza when
she got into a verbal dispute
with the stroller-pushing perp,
who rammed the child-carrier
into the victim multiple
times at around 1 p.m.
Bad date
A scumbag verbally abused
a woman on Fifth Avenue on
Aug. 6.
The victim told police that
she was meeting a man she
met through an online dating
service, but when she showed
up at the agreed upon spot
near Third Street at around
8 p.m., the man began yelling
at her, making her fear
for her safety.
Mall marauder
A shoplifter looted an
Atlantic Avenue store on
Aug. 6.
A store employee told police
that the thief entered the
store near the intersection of
Flatbush Avenue at around
5:50 p.m. before stealing $350
worth of items and making
off undetected.
Helter shelter
Cops arrested a woman
for allegedly breaking a glass
fixture in an Eighth Avenue
women’s shelter on Aug. 7.
Surveillance video shows
the suspect kicking and
breaking the fixture inside
the shelter near 15th Street
at around 5:45 p.m., according
to police.
Authorities arrived on the
scene later that evening and
arrested the woman on felony
criminal mischief charges,
cops said.
Mail bandit
A sneak stole $650 worth
of mail from a Sterling Place
apartment building on Aug.
7.
A resident told police that
the pilferer entered the building
between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at around 6 p.m.,
and stole several packages
from the building lobby.
Handy scammer
A conman attempted to
break into a 14th Street home
by posing as a maintenance
worker on Aug. 9.
The victim told police that
a man rang the doorbell and
requested entry to the house
between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at around 11:30 a.m.,
but the resident who opened
the door called her landlord,
who said that he had not sent
any maintenance worker.
After the victim confronted
the fraudulent home invader,
he ran away, cops said.
Thieving foodie
A thief looted a Flatbush
Avenue grocery store on
Aug. 11.
An employee told police
that the bandit entered
the store between Prospect
Place and Park Place before
grabbing about $109 worth
of items and running off at
around 3:40 p.m.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–Windsor
Terrace
Sunset stickup
Police arrested a man for
allegedly robbing another
man at gunpoint on Seventh
Avenue on Aug. 10.
The victim told police that
he was walking between 61st
and 62nd streets with $7,000
in cash in a black plastic bag
at 4 p.m., when the suspect
pulled a gun on him and
nabbed the money.
Police tracked down the
suspect and arrested him
hours later on felony robbery
charges, but did not recover
the firearm, cops said.
Apple picking
A thief stole a straphanger’s
cellphone at a Fourth
Avenue subway station on
Aug. 6.
The victim told police
that he was aboard the Bay
Ridge-bound R train when
the pilferer snatched the
phone at around 10 a.m.,
before f leeing the train as
it pulled into 25th Street.
Inside out
A burglar stole $121,000
worth of property from a vacant
35th Street warehouse
on Aug. 1.
An employee told police
that the thief entered
the storage facility between
Second and Third avenues
sometime between 8 a.m.
and midnight, before nabbing
various electronics and
then hightailing it.
Rude!
A vandal smashed up a
parked car on 55th Street
sometime between Aug. 10
and 11, causing about $250
worth of damage.
The car owner told police
that he left his car between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
at around 7 p.m., and
returned the next morning
to find his hood dented and
side mirrors cracked.
Cash grab
Cops arrested a man for
allegedly robbing another
man on Fort Hamilton Parkway
on Aug. 11.
The victim waved down
a patrolman and told him
that the suspect had punched
him and stole cash from his
wallet near E. Fifth Street
at around 6:50 a.m.
The cops tracked down
the man shortly after and
arrested him on felony robbery
charges, according to
police reports.
Bad roommate
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
assaulting his roommate
at their 52nd Street
home on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that
he began arguing with the
suspect in the apartment between
Seventh and Eighth
avenues at around 1 a.m.,
when the suspect allegedly
threw his cellphone at the
victim, before punching him
repeatedly.
Police arrived on the
scene and charged the suspect
with felony assault, according
to police reports.
Computer error
A thief stole a laptop
that was being delivered to
a 60th Street apartment on
Aug. 7.
The victim told police that
the mail carrier had left the
package outside the home
between Sixth and Seventh
avenues when the pilferer
grabbed it and ran off between
3 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Looted!
A looter burglarized a
Seventh Avenue apartment
on Aug. 7.
The victim told police that
the thief entered the home
between 40th and 41st streets
through an unlocked front
door at 4 p.m., before stealing
various household items.
— Aidan Graham
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