62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Violent robbery
Two villains beat up a man and
stole $2,000 from him on 83rd Street
on Dec. 30.
The victim told police that the
knaves opened the car door between
16th and 17th avenues at 10:15 am
and punched him multiple times,
before nabbing the cash, his credit,
and his electronics.
Elder abuse
Cops cuffed a teenager for allegedly
punching an elderly man inside
a Kings Highway home on Jan. 2.
The 68-year-old victim told police
that he and the 19-year-old,
whom he does not know, got into an
argument before the young suspect
socked him in the face.
Cops arrived on the scene and
cuffed the victim, who had an active
arrest warrant, according to police
reports.
Bottled up
Police arrested a man for allegedly
attacking his friend with a bottle
outside a Bay Parkway bus stop
on Dec. 30.
The victim told police that the
suspect hit him in the face with a
glass bottle and punched him near
W. Seventh Street at 9 pm.
Cops arrived and busted the defendant,
while fi rst responders
transported the victim to Maimonides
Medical Center, according to
police reports.
Car crook
A baddie stole more than $4,000
worth of construction tools from a
car on W. Sixth Street on Dec. 30.
The victim told police that the
thief broke the rear passenger window
of his company vehicle that was
parked between Avenue O and 65th
Street at around 11:45 pm, and stole
$4,150 worth of tools.
Home invasion!
A sneak thief broke into a 77th
Street apartment and stole thousands
of dollars worth of electronics
on Dec. 27.
The victim told police that the
bandit forcibly opened the door of
his apartment by New Utrecht Avenue
at around 11 am, and snagged
$3,250 worth of electronics before
running off and leaving the door
wide open. — Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Grab your purse
Brigands swiped the purse of a
woman walking down 86th Street
COURIER L 8 IFE, JANUARY 8-14, 2021
Man faces charges for
machete attack on family
Police responded to a machete attack at an apartment building on Putnam Avenue
in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Jan. 3. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
on Dec. 31.
The victim told police that the
baddies nabbed her purse containing
$1,700 and her cellphone while
she was on foot between W. Eighth
and W. Ninth Street at around 3:30
am and ran away.
Hair loss
A weasel snagged hair loss solution
from a Brighton Beach Avenue
drug store on Dec. 30.
Employees told police that the
lout swiped more than $1,000 worth
of other items from the store at the
intersection of Coney Island Avenue
at around 3:30 am, before fl eeing
without paying.
Speedy McQueen
A thief nabbed Alexander Mc-
Queen sunglasses and a Valentino
purse from a car parked at a Cropsey
Avenue hardware store on Jan. 2.
The victim told police that she
entered the store at the intersection
of Bay 53rd Street to make a return
at around 3:10 am, but when she returned,
the $2,978-worth of items
were missing. — Jessica Parks
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Armed ambush
A group of gunmen robbed a man
on Pacifi c Street on Dec. 31.
The victim told police that the
villains pushed a gun against his
stomach between Smith and Hoyt
streets at 8:15 pm and snatched his
phone and wallet.
Hamburglars!
Roaming raiders stole a cash register
from a Fulton Mall fast food
joint on Jan. 1.
Witnesses told police that the
menacing invaders hopped the
counter inside the eatery between
Flatbush Avenue and Hanover Place
at 5:30 pm and ordered a worker at
gunpoint to empty the register, before
making off with some $600 in
cash.
Blue gold
A shoplifter stole almost $800
worth of jeans from a Fulton Mall
clothing store on Jan. 1.
An employee told police that the
bandit bagged the denim legwear
from the shop between Bridge and
Duffi eld streets just before 6:20 pm,
and when the worker tried to stop
him, the knave threatened him with
a knife before fl eeing toward Willoughby
Street.
Chop chop
Cops arrested a woman for allegedly
stabbing another woman with
chopsticks at a shelter on Duffi eld
Street on Dec. 29.
The victim told police that her
roommate stabbed her in the head
with the utensils inside the building
between Willoughby Street and
Fulton Mall at 10:15 pm.
Police collared the suspect on felony
assault charges on the scene, according
to police reports.
Rocked by robbery
A purloiner looted a State Street
coffee shop on the night of Jan. 3.
An employee told police that surveillance
footage captured the man
using a rock to bust the glass front
door of the eatery near Court Street
at 4:45 am, before taking $550 from
the cash drawer and hightailing it
off.
Not worth a shot
A sneak thief stole a woman’s
backpack on the Brooklyn Bridge
on Dec. 29.
The victim told police that she
put her bag down on a bench to take
pictures on the span’s pedestrian
and bike path near the Brooklyn-
Queens Expressway at 4:30 pm, and
when she turned around fi ve minutes
later it was gone.
— Kevin Duggan
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
A young man is being questioned
in connection with a bloody
machete attack on members of his
family in Bedford-Stuyvesant on
Sunday night, which left a 79-yearold
man dead and two others — including
a four-year-old girl — injured.
Charges are pending against the
22-year-old suspect connected to the
violent outburst, which authorities
say occurred at 6:20 pm on Jan. 3 inside
an apartment building on Putnam
Avenue off Nostrand Avenue.
Law enforcement sources indicated
that the perpetrator went on
the attack amid a verbal dispute.
The victims and suspect appear to
be related to one another, sources
said.
Offi cers from the 79th Precinct
responded to the residence after
receiving a 911 call about the assault.
Upon arriving, they found the
79-year-old man with a stab wound
to his abdomen, as well as a 49-yearold
man slashed in the hand and a
4-year-old girl with a gash to her
hip.
EMS units rushed the 79-yearold
man to Interfaith Hospital,
where he later died of his injuries.
Police have withheld his identity,
pending family notifi cation.
The 49-year-old man was brought
to Kings County Hospital, while
the four-year-old girl was taken to
Woodhull Hospital. Both are listed
in stable condition and expected to
recover.
The investigation is ongoing.
It was the second major machete
attack in Brooklyn in less than a
week. On Dec. 29, 2020, cops shot
a machete-wielding man dead in
Brownsville after he hacked at a
woman while she walked her dog.
Law enforcement sources said the
suspect had charged at offi cers with
the weapon, prompting them to
open fi re on him.