84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Con-traceptive
A menacing shoplifter stole condoms
and cough medicine from a
Smith Street store on Nov. 28.
The victim told police that he
malcontent brandished a broken
glass bottle and threatened to stab
employees of the Bergen Street
store at 2:10 am, before stealing the
ill-gotten goods and fl eeing.
Cycle of crime
Cops collared a man for allegedly
stealing a washer-dryer from a Hoyt
Street building on Nov. 22.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly broke into the
building at the corner of Wyckoff
Street just after 7:10 pm, before
grabbing a package with the portable
spinner and running off.
Police cuffed the man across the
street and arrested him on felony
burglary charges, cops said.
Old but Gold
Some purloiner bagged $16,000
worth of ancient bourbon from a
Bond Street home overnight between
Nov. 23 and Nov. 24.
The victim told police that the
suspect broke into the cellar of the
house between Dean and Pacifi c
streets and took several bottles of
the very old booze, before fl eeing.
Con Ed con
A charlatan scammed a Brooklyn
Bridge Park bakery out of $3,000
on Nov. 27.
The victim told police that the
shyster phoned her pretending to
represent Con Edison, saying she
needed to fork over $3,850 via cryptocurrency
or the utility company
would cut the power for the Bridge
Park Drive business at 8 am, which
she did before realizeing the scam.
Muggin’ for makeup
A sneak stole a woman’s bank
cards and went on a shopping spree
on Court Street on Nov. 27.
The victim told police that the
purloiner bumped into her near
Remsen Street at 4 pm, and she realized
later that the fi lcher had taken
har bank cards, which they used to
spend $1,000 at a makeup store.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Gun theft auto
A pair of armed criminals stole
a rental car from a Hudson Avenue
garage on Nov. 29.
An employee told police that the
two nogoodniks showed a valid Zipcar
pass to enter the lot between
COURIER L 8 IFE, DECEMBER 4-10, 2020
Postal worker critically
injured in Canarsie car crash
A U.S. Postal Service worker was critically injured Tuesday afternoon after a
speeding driver crashed into his car. Photo by Todd Maisel
Dekalb Avenue and Fulton Street at
3:50 am, before threatening the victim
with a gun and driving off in a
2015 Volkswagen with Pennsylvania
plates.
No money no problem
A good tried and failed to rob a
couple on Gates Avenue on Nov. 28.
The victim told police that the
knife-wielding knave jumped toward
him and his beau near Vanderbilt
Avenue at 9 pm, but ran away
when the would-be victims showed
their cashless wallets.
Feud of fi sts
Police arrested a man for allegedly
beating up his elderly dad at their
Monument Walk home on Nov. 26.
The 66-year-old victim told police
that he got into a war of words with
his 28-year-old son near Navy Street
around 7:10 am, when the younger
man allegedly slugged him repeatedly
in the face.
Cops arrived on the scene and
cuffed the son for felony assault
charges, according to police.
Anti-social
A group of frauds cheated a
woman out of $7,000 on Ashland
Place on Nov. 25.
The victim told police that three
scammers told her that her Social
Security Number had been compromised
at Lafayette Avenue at 10 am,
and that she’d be arrested if she didn’t
send $7,000 worth of gift cards.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Pipe down!
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
hitting his acquaintance in a
Bay Parkway apartment building
on Nov. 28.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly smacked him in
the shin with a metal pipe in the
hallway of the apartment building
near Bath Avenue at 11:20 am.
Bottled up anger
Police arrested a woman for allegedly
attacking another woman
with a bottle at a 86th Street grocery
store on Nov. 27.
The victim told police that the defendant
followed her into the store
between Bay 23rd Street and 20th
Avenue at 11:10 am, before allegedly
punching her and attempting to hit
her with a beer bottle.
Knife knaves
Two knife-wielding robbers stole
$1,000 from a man on 16th Avenue
on Nov. 23.
The victim told police that the
two dirtbags tried to sell him a gold
chain between 65th and 66th streets
at 2:45 pm, before brandishing the
knife and snatching an envelope
containing the cash.
Bank bust
Cops cuffed two men for allegedly
grabbing a woman and trying
to steal her cash at a Bay 29th Street
bank on Nov. 25.
The victim told police that one of
the suspects grabbed her neck and
tried to snatch her money inside the
bank near Benson Avenue at 11:25
am, but nearby do-gooders helped
stop the robbery in progress.
— Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Phone fi lch
A gun-wielding bandit stole a
woman’s cell phone at Kings Highway
subway station on Nov. 27.
The victim told police that the cad
pointed a fi rearm at her chest inside
the station between W. Seventh and
W. Eighth streets at around 7:50 am
and forced her to unlock the phone,
before grabbing it and running off.
On the house
A crook took his car from a
Cropsey Avenue auto shop without
paying for the services on Nov. 20.
An employee told police that the
baddie drove his car off the property
between Hart Place and Neptune
Avenue at around 5:25 am without
paying $2,249 that he owed.
— Jessica Parks
BY TODD MAISEL
A U.S. Postal Service worker was
critically injured on Tuesday after a
speeding driver blew through a stop
sign and struck his car on a Canarsie
street corner, police said.
The driver of a grey Mercedes
Benz, allegedly traveling at high
speed northbound along E. 105th
Street, broadsided the postal
worker’s Subaru Forester, which
was heading east on Avenue L at
2:02 pm.
The impact caused the Subaru to
smash into a parked Nissan pick-up
truck before mounting the sidewalk
and fl ipping onto its side against a
brick wall.
Offi cers from the 69th Precinct
and fi refi ghters raced to the scene
and worked for 20 minutes to cut
the postal worker out of the Subaru,
where the victim’s USPS uniform
hung on the door frame. The worker
was unconscious and unresponsive,
and was rushed to Brookdale
Hospital in critical condition with a
severe head injury, police said.
The driver of the Mercedes
Benz remained on the scene, and
no charges have been fi led as of
Wednesday morning.
The crash could be heard from
blocks away, according to witnesses
at the scene.
“It sounded like an explosion,”
said one resident who didn’t want
to be identifi ed. “Then fi remen
came and they had to cut him out.
It was horrible.”