60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Cash grab
Bandits swiped $11,000 in cash
from a W. 24th Street department
store overnight on July 15.
The store owner told police that
she noticed the money missing from
the store between Mermaid and
Neptune avenues when she opened
at around 7 am, but there were no
signs of forced entry.
2020 vision
Thieves stole $2,020 worth of belongings
from a car parked in a Surf
Avenue parking garage on July 18.
The victim told police he returned
to his unattended vehicle
parked between W.16th and W. 21st
street at around 3:45 am and noticed
his sneakers, jewelry and football
equipment had been stolen.
Ex-factor
A man stole his ex-girlfriend’s
iPhone at the beach on Bay View Avenue
on July 15.
The victim told police that her
former beau snatched the phone
from her near the intersection of
W. 37th Street after she left work
around 4:30 am and suggested she
try calling the cops on him before
fl eeing.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Real bat guys
A brute smacked a driver after
he cut him off on a Belt Parkway
exit on July 19.
The victim told police that he
pulled in front of the ruffi an’s car
as they were heading off of the Exit
Five ramp by Shore Parkway at 5:41
in bumper-to-bumper traffi c, before
two knaves hopped out with a baseball
bat and hit both the victim and
the car.
Shining armor
Three robbers with a white shield
stole a man’s wallet and phone on
77th Street on July 16.
The victim told police that one of
the robbers ruffl ed through the victim’s
pockets while another robber
held a white metal shield and the
third kept lookout between 16th and
17th avenues at 10:30 pm, before the
pirates fl ed with the victim’s wallet
and his cellphone.
Gun point
A gunman stole sunglasses and a
wallet from a car parked on 15th Avenue
on July 17.
The victim told police that he approached
the robber while he was
COURIER L 8 IFE, JULY 24-30, 2020
Rescue divers search Brighton
Beach surf for missing swimmer
Rescuers searched the Brighton Beach waters on July 21. Photo by Todd Maisel
rummaging through the victim’s
car by Cropsey Avenue at 4:40 am,
before the baddie threatened him
with a .38 revolver and ran off with
the goods.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Phone fracas
Three punks stole a man’s phone
on Concord Street on July 13.
The victim told police that the
trio of reprobates waltzed up near
Gold Street just before 2 am, grabbed
him, hit him in the head and arms,
and nabbed his cell phone.
Double trouble
Raiders broke into two Bond
Street businesses but left emptyhanded
on the night of July 16.
The victims told cops that marauders
invaded their businesses
near Atlantic Avenue between 7 pm
and 11:50 am and pried open cash
registers, which were empty, before
heading out without any loot.
Eye-catching
Cops arrested a man they allege
tried to steal more than $33,000
worth of eyeglasses from a Court
Street store on July 14.
The victim told cops that the suspect
allegedly hit an employee with
the expensive eyewear inside the
store at State Street around 5 am.
Quick swipe!
A sneak stole a woman’s rental
bike on Front Street on July 15.
The victim told police that she
turned her back to her Citi Bike
at Dock Street at 6:40 pm when the
scoundrel swiped the blue bicycle.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
What a jerk!
A package thief hit a woman
with a crowbar on S. Oxford Street
on July 14.
The victim told cops that she saw
the bandit prying his way into the
apartment building between Lafayette
and Dekalb avenues at 6 am,
before swinging the bar at her, and
running off.
Not playing fair
Some brute randomly attacked
an elderly man at a Fulton Street
playground on July 13.
The 85-year-old victim told police
he was exercising in Cuyler
Gore park at Greene Avenue at 5
am, when the scumbag beat him up
for no apparent reason, leaving him
with cuts and bruises.
Paramedics brought the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment
of his wounds, according to police.
Blade attack
A machete-wielding maniac
slashed two men at a Monument
Walk home on July 13.
The victims told cops that the
villain came to their place looking
for a fi ght at Park Avenue at 7:20 pm,
before whipping out a blade and cutting
one guy in his left hand and the
other in his face and leg multiple
times.
Bat beat-up
Police arrested a man for allegedly
attacking a guy with a stick
during a scuffl e on Washington Avenue
on July 17.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly batted him at Fulton
Street at 5 am, before hitting the
defendant in the head and breaking
his glasses during the ensuing
scuffl e.
Cops caught up with the suspect
at Carlton Avenue and arrested him
on felony assault charges, according
to police reports.
Freebooter
A home invader raided a Fulton
Street apartment building on the
night of July 13.
The victim told police that the
rustler forced open the front door
with a crowbar at Downing Street at
12:30 am and stole several packages,
various wires, and a bike.
— Kevin Duggan
BY TODD MAISEL
Rescue divers scoured the surf
in Brighton Beach Tuesday night,
where a witness said he saw a swimmer
disappear in the water.
Edwin Rondon, 58, of Sunset
Park, told authorities that he witnessed
a man disappear into the
waves at the end of a jetty near Coney
Island Avenue at about 8 pm.
“I saw a man right at where the
rocks end,” he said to members of
the NYPD Harbor Unit. “I saw him
go under and then he came back up
and then he went back under and I
thought that was impossible — he
was trying to swim under the rocks
and he must be in trouble.”
Rondon said that by the time he
made it to the rocks, he didn’t see
the man anymore and dove in after
him.
“I swam out towards the rocks
and didn’t see him, but the surf was
too strong, so I had to go back in,”
Rondon said.
While he was searching for the
missing man, Rondon said, witnesses
dialed 911.
Dozens of fi refi ghters arrived
and sent in divers to search for the
swimmer. They were assisted by
several fi re and police boats shining
spotlights on the area, along
with a police helicopter providing
light from above.
After more than an hour of
searching through the surf in the
dark, rescuers called it quits.
Nobody on the beach — which
is supposed to be closed — reported
anyone missing, but authorities
said the investigation remains ongoing.