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COURIER LIFE, APRIL 22-28, 2022
62ND PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Wannabe Employee
An aspiring beach club employee
stole job applications and a sweatshirt
from a Surf Avenue beach club after
breaking the locks to get in on April 15.
The club’s owner told police that
his employees alerted him that multiple
locks were broken at the beach
club at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue,
and when he checked the cameras
he found that a bandit had broken in
around 12:57 am, broken the locks and
tripped the alarm.
A moment’s notice
A crook snatched a wallet off the
counter of a W. Eighth Street business
after the wallet’s owner left it there for
just a moment on April 12.
The victim told police that he returned
to the counter at the business
between Sheepshead Bay Road and
Surf Avenue around 11:48 am to find his
ID and credit cards missing.
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST-BATH BEACH
Mom’s missing
A scammer called a victim while at
his house on 63rd Street claiming they
were holding their mother hostage and
demanded $280 to return her on April
11.
The victim told police that she
wired the funds before realizing that
their mother was never held hostage
by the con artist who called the home
at the intersection of 18th Avenue at
around 5 pm.
The Hardware Boyz
Three brutes tied up a man selling
them a gaming hard drive at his
Bay 10th Street home using computer
cables and garbage bags on
April 13.
The victim told police that he
invited the trio into his garage between
Cropsey and Independence
avenues and when he was counting
the $3000 they paid him at around 10
pm, they pushed him to the ground
and took the money and the hardware.
— Jessica Parks
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Meaty malefactor
A malefactor stole eight packs of
meat from a Fulton Street supermarket
on April 12.
The store’s manager told police that
Police cuff suspect
in bloody December
shooting in Bay Ridge
The suspects. NYPD
the thief walked into the store near St.
James Place at about 7:45 pm, loaded
up on the protein-packed foods, and
walked out without paying — but it
didn’t stop there.
The jerk returned to the store later
and, when confronted by the manager,
pulled a black handgun from his waistband
before running out and away
down Fulton Street.
Armed robber
An armed robber threatened a man
walking on Flatbush Avenue Extension
on April 12.
The victim told police that he was getting
into his Uber near DeKalb Avenue
at about 11 pm, when the lout threatened
the victim, supposedly with a gun, and
demanded cash — which he handed over.
Marauder robs Amazon
Some marauder robbed an Amazon
driver on Hall Street on April 14.
The victim told police that he was
delivering packages near Myrtle Avenue
at 3:25 pm when the baddie hopped
in the van and start loading packages
into a large box.
The thief then asked the delivery
man to drive him to Clifton Place, but
the quick-thinking driver turned on
the van to activate the built-in surveillance
camera, then turned off the engine
and fled. In the end, the robber got
away with just a package of dish soap.
Fiend attacks friend
A woman allegedly attacked her acquaintance
at a Tillary Street shelter
on April 11.
The victim told police that the villain
got on top of her and choked her
unconscious near Flatbush Avenue
Extension at 9:30 pm. The victim later
told the officer that the attacker had
also punched her and hit her with a
padlock, leaving her face swollen and
bruised. Cops arrested the alleged assailant
on the scene.
School safety
A bruiser attacked a school safety
agent on Clermont Avenue on April 13.
The victim told police that he was
working at Brooklyn Technical High
School near Atlantic Avenue at 9:45
am when the stranger walked up and
punched him in the face.
The safety agent promptly arrested
the tough on the premises.
Window smash
A thief broke into a vehicle parked
on Waverly Avenue and stole some expensive
gear on April 11.
The victim told police that he
parked his vehicle near Fulton Street
on the evening of April 9 and, when he
returned early on April 11, found his
passenger side window shattered and
his MacBook Pro, GoPro camera, Air-
Pods, tripod and laptop charger missing
— altogether worth $2,396.
Swiper steals wallet
Some swiper grabbed a dropped
wallet from the sidewalk and made off
with it on Fleet Place on April 11.
The victim told police that she was
babysitting when she dropped the wallet,
which contained credit and debit
cards, a military ID, and a health insurance
card, near Myrtle Avenue at
about 9 am.
She canceled the cards upon realizing
she had lost the wallet, but later reported
that she had managed to obtain
security camera footage from a nearby
store, which showed some stranger
coming upon the wallet, pocketing it,
and walking away.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
One man was arrested in connection
to a shooting that left a victim injured
in Bay Ridge back in December.
According to police, at 7:50 pm on
Dec. 21, 2021 a 33-year-old man was
inside 308 68th Street when he was
approached by three unknown men.
One of the suspects pulled out a gun
and shot multiple times at the victim.
The suspects then fled the scene in
a white vehicle. The victim was hit in
his leg and was taken by paramedics
to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn
in stable condition.
41-year-old Lower East Side resident
Craig Fambro was arrested in
connection to this incident on April
13, 2022. He was charged with attempted
murder, menacing, criminal
possession of a controlled substance,
reckless endangerment, two counts
of assault and two counts of criminal
possession of a weapon. The other
two suspects remain at large.
Anyone with information in regard
to this incident is asked to call
the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline
at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public
can also submit their tips by logging
onto the Crime Stoppers website
or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls
are strictly confidential.