60TH PRECINCT
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—
Seagate
Blown out
A gunman opened fi re at fi ve
parked vehicles on W. 33rd Street on
Jan. 19.
Police said they recovered 14 bullet
shells on the road between Mermaid
and Surf avenues around 11:10
am, and there were no reported injuries
from the event.
Cash out
Thieves nabbed $1,500 from
within a purse inside the closet of a
Surf Avenue apartment on Jan. 19.
The victim told police that he returned
to his home at the intersection
of Neptune Avenue around 5 pm
and noticed his door was damaged,
and the property was missing.
Power hungry
Bandits swiped a generator and a
weed whacker from a W. 25th Street
public housing complex on Jan. 9.
Employees told police that the
baddie broke into the building between
Mermaid and Surf Avenues
at around 7 am and took the over
$1,000 worth of appliances.
—Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Stop, hammer time!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
swinging a hammer at a supermarket
employee on Bay Parkway
on Jan. 18.
The employee told police that
he approached the suspect after he
tried to walk out of the store with a
six-pack of beer without paying at
the store near Bath Avenue at 1:35
am, but when the employee tried to
stop him, the defendant whipped out
a hammer and swung at him.
Clean escape
A bandit stole a power washer
and a snow blower from a Bay Parkway
apartment building on Jan. 16.
The victim told police that the
burglar snuck into the basement on
the corner of 79th Street at around
1:10 pm and nabbed the power tools,
which cost $3,000 combined, before
fl eeing through the lobby door.
That’s low!
Some good-for-nothing stole a
woman’s wallet and electronics
while she was sleeping on a bench
in Seth Low Park on Jan. 22.
The victim told cops that the thief
took her belongings, including $250,
from her while she was snoozing on
the park bench by the corner of Bay
Parkway and Stillwell Avenue.
— Rose Adams
COURIER L 8 IFE, JAN. 29-FEB. 4, 2021
Two cuffed for robbing man
and leaving him for dead
Authorities remove the 46-year-old’s body. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Subway swipe!
A violent huckster robbed a
woman at the Borough Hall train
station on Jan. 23.
The victim told police that the
bandit was panhandling and she
was about to give him $10 on the
Manhattan-bound platform at 9:25
am, when he snatched her wallet
and bear-hugged her to keep her
from fl eeing up the stairway, before
fl eeing with $50.
Ugly situation
Some brute violently robbed a
woman at a Lawrence Street beauty
salon on Jan. 19.
The victim told police that the
nogoodnik went into her pockets
and snatched $80 inside the establishment
near the Fulton Mall at 5
pm, and when she tried to chase the
thief, he punched her and bolted.
Pen pals
Cops arrested a woman for allegedly
stabbing her beau with a pen at
their Gold Street home on Jan. 17.
The victim told police that his
fl ame cut him in the chest and back
with the writing device at Flatbush
Avenue Ext. at 10 pm.
Police arrived at the scene at
10:36 pm and arrested the woman
on felony assault charges, but the
boyfriend said he didn’t want to
press charges, according to police
reports.
Screwed up!
A raider looted drills from a
Hoyt Street condo construction site
on the night of Jan. 19.
The victim told police that the
fi lcher got into the site at the corner
of Livingston Street between 5:30
pm and 6 am the next morning and
bagged a bunch of tools worth $3,260.
Five-fi nger discount
Police arrested a man for allegedly
shoplifting at a Fulton Mall
clothing store on Jan. 19.
An employee told police that the
suspect allegedly bagged a bunch
of clothes from the shop at Gallatin
Place at 5 pm and left without paying,
before boarding a Bushwickbound
B38 bus.
Police stopped the bus a few
blocks down at Bond Street, and arrested
the thief on felony grand larceny
charges, according to police
reports.
Lucked out!
A purloiner stole a bunch of lottery
tickets from a Livingston Street
bodega on Jan. 18.
The victim told police that the
brigand took lucky tickets worth
$1,542 from the shop near Nevins
Street at 1:30 pm, but dropped the
box a block away at the corner of
State Streets.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Glassed!
Some wretch hurled a bottle at a
delivery cyclist on S. Portland Avenue
on Jan. 20.
The victim told police that the
knave hit him in the face with the
glass projectile, bruising his eye,
lips, and nose, as he pedaled toward
Atlantic Avenue at 8:30 pm.
The cyclist went back to work,
before later checking into Lutheran
Hospital for treatment, according to
police reports.
Knave with a knife
A ne’er-do-well robbed a Flatbush
Avenue Ext. bodega at knifepoint
on Jan. 23.
A store employee told police that
the rogue took lemonade and candy
from the shop at Fulton Street at 10
pm and attempted to leave, but when
the shopkeeper followed him, the
crook took out a knife and threatened
the worker.
— Kevin Duggan
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
Detectives picked up two Brooklyn
residents Monday in connection
with the death of a robbery victim
whose bound body was found inside
his apartment on Jan. 22.
Authorities booked 35-yearold
Amanda Sylvester of Crown
Heights and 49-year-old Sean Idlet
of Prospect Heights on murder, robbery,
and burglary charges for the
Jan. 22 death of 46-year-old Malcolm
Holder of St. Marks Avenue in
Crown Heights.
Holder was found tied up and
dead, lying face down on the living
room fl oor of his apartment at about
10:40 a.m. The cause of his death
is not yet known; police reported
that there were no obvious signs of
trauma to his body.
Sources familiar with the investigation
said that an unidentifi ed
individual at the residence discovered
the dead man upon arriving at
the home and called police. The individual
had apparently last spoken
to the victim about 24 hours earlier,
at around 10:30 a.m. on the morning
of Jan. 21.
Sylvester and Idlet were
tracked down Monday based on
information that the 77th Precinct
Detective Squad obtained
during the course of its investigation.
Police did not reveal how
the two suspects are connected
to each other, or if they knew the
victim in any way.
Members of the NYPD Warrant
Squad took Sylvester into custody
at her Union Street residence,
while detectives picked up Idlet at
an apartment in the area of Montgomery
Street and Schenectady
Avenue in Crown Heights.