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Cops cuff suspect in sleazy Downtown tip jar heist
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BIZARRE...
Cops arrested this man for attacking restaurant
workers in the Columbia Street Waterfront District.
The suspect, a Brooklyn
Heights resident, sat down
without ordering and stared at
the employees, shouting “Why
are you staring at me?” when
workers happened to glance at
him, Dirounian claimed.
After a ten-minute standoff,
the man allegedly said,
“If you’re going to f--- with
me, I’ll f--- with you,” and approached
the workers, prompting
the only male employee to
stand up. The customer put
his hands around the worker’s
neck, tried to push him to
the ground, and threw objects
throughout the store, breaking
a flower pot, according
to Dirounian.
When another worker
called the police, the man
promptly changed his tune
and apologized for his behavior,
Dirounian said.
“He said ‘I’m sorry,’ and
tried to take my friend’s
hand,” she said. The workers
allegedly told the repentant
attacker to wait for the
police and he complied.
Cops arrived at around
4:45 pm and cuffed the suspect,
charging him with assault
and criminal mischief,
police spokesman Detective
Hubert Reyes confirmed.
Luckily, the victim, who
Dirounian described as a
“trained Thai boxer,” didn’t
suffer any serious injuries
from the fight, but she worries
that she and the other
employees could be in danger
if the violent customer
returns.
“If my friend who’s a guy
isn’t there, what do we do?”
she asked.
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Photo by Paul Martinka
84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–
Boerum Hill–Downtown
Bad tipper
Police arrested a man for
allegedly stealing money from
a tip jar at a MetroTech Center
eatery on Sept. 17.
The victim told police that
the suspect took $30 from the
jar at the restaurant near Myrtle
Avenue around 7:30 pm,
while yelling “Don’t make me
hurt you,” as he grabbed his
pocket, insinuating he was
armed.
The cops cuffed the man
about fifteen minutes later,
slapping him with a felony
robbery charge.
Begging for
trouble
Some scalawag robbed
a man on Fourth Street on
Sept. 18.
The victim told police the
thief approached him near
Dean Street at around 3:30
am, asking “can I have some
money,” before pulling out a
knife, cutting his face, and
breaking his nose and left
hand, then hightailing it.
Stick it to ‘em
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
hitting a guy with a
stick on York Street on Sept.
21. T
he victim told police that
the suspect whacked him in
the head near Bridge Street
at 7 am.
Police arrested the man
that morning, slapping him
with a felony assault charge,
cops said.
Cat burglar
A burglar looted the register
at a Smith Street nightclub
on Sept. 20.
The Scoundrel broke into
the bar near Wyckoff Street
at 6 am, before lugging the
cash register into the basement
and prying it open to
remove the cash.
— Joe Hiti
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
She fought
back!
An elderly woman fought
off a robber on Myrtle Avenue
on Sept. 17.
The 71-year-old victim told
police the brute punched her
several times and tried to grab
her pocketbook but the feisty
senior wouldn’t let go and the
lout ended up fleeing empty
handed it towards N. Portland
Avenue at around 7:50 pm.
Delivery
delinquents
Cops arrested two teens for
allegedly trying to rob a delivery
guy on Adelphi Street
on Sept. 17.
The victim told police
he dropping off a meal near
Willoughby Avenue at 10:15
pm, when the 19- and 17-yearold
suspects walked punched
him in the shoulder, before
demanding cash.
The two punks then fled in
a gray getaway car, but the victim
pursued on his e-bike, and
was later able to point them
out to police, cops said.
Booze bandit
A ruffian stole a 18-pack
of beer from a Flatbush Avenue
Ext. convenience store
on Sept. 19.
A store employee told police
the thief tried to walk out
his ill-gotten brewskis near
Fulton Street at 6 am.
When the worker tried to
recover his booze, the crook
threatened to punch him by
waving his fist in front of his
face, according to police.
The victim followed the nogoodnik
to Atlantic Avenue
Terminal, where the scallawag
fled into the station towards
the B and Q train platform,
cops said.
Apple fanatics!
Thieves robbed the Flatbush
Avenue Apple Store
three times between Sept.
15-16.
The manager of the store
between Lafayette and Fourth
avenues told police that one
looter broke into the store on
Sept. 15 by pushing open the
locked revolving door, before
bagging two tablets and a keyboard,
and fleeing towards
Atlantic Avenue Terminal
at 11 pm.
The next day, a purloiner
went into the store around 2:45
pm and slipped a phone and
wireless headphones into his
pocket before making a run for
it, a witness told police.
An hour later, another nogoodnik
asked an employee
to buy a phone and the second
the worker brought it out
and put it on the table, the
shoplifter nabbed it and fled
the scene.
Pedaling perp
Some crook robbed a cyclist
on Cambridge Place on
Sept. 20.
The victim told police that
the jerk slugged between
Greene and Gates avenues
at 10:10 pm, before pushing
him off his two-wheeler and
pedaling away.
— Kevin Duggan
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
A pug-nacious
crime
A ruffian ordered his dog
to attack a woman on Sixth
Avenue on Sept. 20.
The victim told police that
she was arguing with the dogowner
near Dean Street at
11:30 am, when the puppywielding
punk ordered the canine
to attack her, although
the fleet-footed woman managed
to hightail it.
Seventh Avenue
scumbag
A bruiser punched a
woman on Seventh Avenue
on Sept. 16.
The victim told police that
the brute sucker punched her
without provocation near Seventh
Street at around 8 pm,
and then ran off.
Hit-and-run
A motorist left the scene
of an accident on St. Marks
Place on Sept. 16.
The victim told police that
the perp smashed into her
Honda Civic between Flatbush
and Carlton avenues at
1:30 pm, before driving off
without stopping.
Park Slope
scoundrel
A jerk slapped another
woman on Sixth Street on
Sept. 15.
The victim told police
that the woman was yelling
at her near Seventh Avenue
at around 8:20 am, when the
confrontation turned violent
and the cur slapped the victim
in the face.
Whole foods
filcher
Cops cuffed a woman for
allegedly stealing from a
Fourth Avenue Whole Foods
on Sept. 16.
A worker told police that
the suspect entered the upscale
grocery near Third
Street at around 5 pm and allegedly
made off with $170
woth of ill-gotten goods.
Police arrived on the scene
shortly after and arrested the
woman on misdemeanor
charges of criminal possession
of stolen property, according
to police reports.
Packer pilferer
A filcher stole packages
from a First Street apartment
on Sept. 10.
The victim told police
that the swindler grabbed
two packages worth a combined
$550 from the vestibule
of her apartment building between
Fourth and Fifth avenues
at around 7 am.
Atlantic antics
A shoplifter looted an Atlantic
Avenue store on Sept.
15.
An employee told police
that the thief entered the
store near Flatbush Avenue at
around 12:45 pm and grabbed
$109 worth of clothes before
running off.
— Aidan Graham
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–Windsor
Terrace
Invaded
Police arrested a man
for allegedly slashing a guy
with a knife during a botched
52nd Street home invasion on
Sept. 18.
The victim told police the
suspect repeatedly kicked the
front door of his house between
Seventh and Eighth avenues at
around 5 pm, when the victim
confronted the man and a scuffle
ensued, during which the
suspect slashed the victim’s
hand with a pocket knife.
Police cuffed the suspect
at the scene on felony assault
and robbery charges, according
to police reports.
Intoxicating
robbery
Two brutes robbed an
drunken man on Fifth Avenue
on Sept. 22.
The victim told police the
crooks sucker punched him near
57th Street at around 2 am, causing
his nose to bleed, before
grabbing his phone and $550
in cash and running off.
Slashed
A knife-wielding wacko
stabbed a man on Fourth
Avenue on Sept. 17.
The victim told police that
was near 49th Street at 5:50
pm, when the ruffian slashed
him in the neck.
First responders arrived on
the scene and took the victim
to NYU Langone Hospital for
treatment, cops said.
Car jacker
A pirate looted a parked
car on E. Third Street on
Sept. 21.
The victim told police that he
left the car between Fort Hamilton
Parkway and Caton Avenue
at 8 am, and returned two hours
later to discover his driver’s side
window busted, and a wallet
containing $2,000 stolen.
Police later discovered that
the victim’s credit cards had
been used at a nearby subway
station, according to
police reports.
Knife guys
Three knife-armed bandits
mugged a man on Fourth Avenue
on Sept. 22.
The victim told police the
goons pulled a knife on him
near 55th Street at around 1:30
am, before nabbing his cellphone
and wallet.
Credit card
crook
A scam artist used a Prospect
Avenue man’s information
to open multiple bank accounts
between Aug. 23 and 30.
The victim, who lives between
Eighth Avenue and Prospect
Park West, told police that
the swindler used his stolen
credientials to open several
accounts, but the cards were
delivered safely and unused
to his house on Sept. 17 at
around 4 pm.
— Aidan Graham
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