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COURIER LIFE, APRIL 8-14, 2022
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
All dash, no dine
A restaurant rustler cut the “dine”
out of dine-and-dash when he broke
into a Fulton Street restaurant on
March 30.
The victim told police the suspect
was caught on camera busting through
the front door of Efes Gyro & Grill
near Vanderbilt Avenue at about 2:30
am. Once inside, the thief hopped behind
the counter and nabbed the whole
cash register, which contained $10,000
in cash, as well as equipment used to
charge customers’ credit cards, and
ran back out into the night.
Construction
site crook
Some crook broke into a S Portland
Avenue construction site on March 31
and stole thousands of dollars of equipment.
Police said the victim was sure to
lock up when he left the site at 5 pm,
but, the next morning, the jerk had
managed to get the door open – damaging
it in the process — and lifted screw
guns, hammers, batteries, a tape measure,
and a utility knife.
Car lost, then found
A carjacker stole a Ford van parked
on St. James Place on March 27.
The victim told police he headed out
to move the car, which he had left near
Greene Avenue, at about 11:30 pm, but
someone had already moved it for him.
A nearby security camera showed the
thief hopping out of a U-Haul van, climbing
into the parked Ford, and driving
off. License plate recognition tracked
the car crossing the Verrazano bridge
toward Staten Island that night.
Two days later, after the thief managed
to wrack up a parking ticket, the
car was found parked on Dean Street
and returned to its rightful owner.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS—DUMBO—
BOERUM HILL—DOWNTOWN
Marauder at Macy’s
A marauder allegedly stole a variety
of clothing from the Fulton Street
Macy’s department store on March 28.
Police said the raider walked into
the store near Bridge Street at about
3pm and gathered up over $1,000 worth
of Polo-brand T-shirts and underwear,
Steve Madden shoes, a Calvin Klein
purse, and Adidas socks. Employees
watched as he stuffed the clothing into
bags and allegedly tried to leave the
store without paying.
Officers apprehended and arrested
the thief on the scene.
One injured in shooting
near Bay Ridge precinct
Getting some Air
Some music-deprived malefactor
threatened a woman and stole her Apple
AirPods as she walked on Duffield
Street on April 1.
Police said the victim was walking
near Nassau Street at 11:15 pm when the
robber blocked her path and threatened
to kill her for the wireless headphones.
The woman handed over the earbuds
A 23-year-old was shot in the back on April
4 after a dispute at Third Avenue and 65th
Street in Bay Ridge. Google Maps
and the mugger fled into the night.
Leggings looter
A fitness-focused bandit allegedly
stole a selection of women’s activewear
from a Fulton Street department store
on March 30.
Police said the thief strolled through
the Nordstrom Rack near Hoyt Street
at around 5 pm, allegedly breaking
hangers and anti-theft tags and stuffing
pricey clothing into her bag before
heading to the exit. Store employees
called the cops, who turned up to intercept
the woman just in time.
Officers arrested the woman that
evening after they uncovered some
crack cocaine in her jacket pockets as
they searched her belongings for stolen
goods.
Little lifer at
the Little Gym
A couple of sneaks stole a backpack
from a stroller left inside The Little
Gym on Atlantic Avenue on March 30.
The victim told police she rolled the
stroller into the children’s gymnastics
center near Boerum Place just before
noon, and dropped her backpack in it
for safekeeping while she was otherwise
occupied. When she want back to
get the backpack at about 12:30 pm, it
was gone, along with the wallet, passport,
credit card, and phone charger inside.
Security footage showed two men
walking into the building, eyeing the
bag, and nabbing it before making a
swift exit.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST-BATH BEACH
Imposter impound
A white pickup truck removed a
Bay 38th Street resident’s car that was
parked blocking their own driveway on
March 30.
The truck that towed their car away
from in front of their driveway between
Benson and Bath avenues did not appear
to be a city tow truck, before fleeing
with the car around 2:55 am.
Chain change
Three con artists swapped out their
fake chain with a real one that was on
a woman’s neck when she was taking
out the trash in front of her 68th Street
home on April 1.
The victim told police the trio of
scammers pulled up in their car in
front of her home between 17th and 18th
avenues and put one of their chains
around her neck as they said “thank
you, thank you,” and drove off around
1:55 pm when she noticed her necklace
was gone.
Open door policy
Crooks swiped a man’s wallet from
his car on 66th Street when he left the
door open on March 27.
The victim told police his wallet
that was stolen from the vehicle between
19th and 20th avenues around 1
am contained $120, his green card and
his driver’s license.
— Jessica Parks
BY KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
One person was wounded in a
shooting in Bay Ridge on the afternoon
of April 4, just steps away from
the neighborhood’s police precinct.
Officers from the 68th Precinct responded
to a report of a shooting just
after 2 pm at the corner of Third Avenue
and 65th Street, where a 23-yearold
man was found to have been shot
in the back, according to the New
York City Police Department. Emergency
responders brought the victim,
who was in stable condition, to NYU
Langone Hospital in Brooklyn.
A possible suspect was in police
custody, but no arrests had been
made as of 5pm on Monday, police
said. An investigation is ongoing.
The shooting came just days after
12-year-old Kade Lewin was shot
and killed in East Flatbush, drawing
neighbors and elected officials, including
Mayor Eric Adams, to call for
more resources and stricter gun control
in the city. Lewin’s 20-year-old
aunt was also injured in the March 31
shooting, but is expected to recover.
There have been 279 shooting incidents
citywide so far this year, according
to NYPD data, a 17 percent
increase from the same time period
in 2021. Of those incidents, 39 have
occurred within the Brooklyn South
patrol, which stretches from Crown
Heights and Red Hook to Bay Ridge
and Canarsie.
So far this year, shootings in
Brooklyn South are up about 14 percent
from the same time last year,
and victims – the number of people
injured or killed in those shootings
– has risen nearly 30 percent, with
49 reported in Brooklyn South as of
April 3.
On social media Monday night,
area Councilmember Justin Brannan
said the shooting near the precinct
was an act of “senseless road
rage” that started with a car chase in
Sunset Park, and ended at the 7-11 gas
station near the station house.
“Further proof that not only are
there too many illegal guns on our
streets but these guns are in the
hands of people who clearly feel emboldened
to use them without consequence,”
the pol wrote on Facebook.
“I don’t care what the story is, you’ve
gotta be an actual sociopath to pull
out a gun and start shooting when
you are literally next door to a goddamned
police station.”