81ST PRECINCT
BEDFORD STUYVESENT—
STUYVESANT HEIGHTS
Creepy cad!
A creep groped a 30-year-old female
on the Ralph Avenue Subway
platform on July 20.
The victim told police that the
cad approached her while she was
waiting on the A/C platform near
Fulton Street at around 1:30 pm, and
grabbed her buttocks, before fl eeing
in an unknown direction.
—Aidan Graham
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Late night hold-up
A pair of pirates robbed two people
of over $30,000 in jewelry on
Warren Street on July 25.
The victims told police that the
gunman held them up near Smith
Street at around 4 am, before making
off with a Rolex watch, a chain, a
Fendi bag, and a cellphone — worth
$33,600 in total.
Gametime is over
A cat burglar robbed an apartment
on Duffi eld Street on the morning
of July 25.
The victim told police that the
sneak thief broke into his apartment
near Duffi eld Street between 9
am and noon before making off with
his Playstation 4 and an assortment
of games.
Scooted off
Some scallywag skimmed a
scooter on Schermerhorn Street on
July 23.
The victim told police that he
locked up his ride near Court Street
at 10 am, but when he returned at
1:20 pm, it was gone.
Shady behavior
Some lowlife robbed a boutique
store on Jay Street on July 20.
An employee told police that the
pilferer snuck into the store near
Front Street overnight through
a window and stole a $500 pair of
women’s sunglasses.
Bang!
A gunman shot a 53-year-old
male in the foot on Wyckoff Street
on July 26.
The victim told police that he was
walking near Hoyt Street at around
9 am when the shooter hit him in
the right foot with a bullet.
Paramedics rushed the victim to
New York Presbyterian Brooklyn
Methodist Hospital in stable condition
for treatment of his wounds, according
to police reports.
— Ben Verde
COURIER L 8 IFE, JULY 30-AUG. 5, 2021
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Salad sneak
Bandits broke into a 15th Avenue
apartment and left a salad bowl in
the bathroom on July 23.
The victim told police that he is
unsure what was stolen from the
apartment near 74th Street, but he
left it unattended until 11:30 pm
when he returned to fi nd the rear
window’s screen broken and the
mystery bowl in the bathroom.
Cashless
A quartet of savages mugged a
man of his empty wallet on Kings
Highway and stabbed him in the
back on July 19.
The victim told police that the
brutes took his wallet near the intersection
of W. 11th Street at around
4:38 am, but when one of them realized
the wallet was empty, she threw
it on the ground and stabbed him.
Free makeover
A shoplifter stole $1,000 worth of
cosmetics from an 86th Street drug
store on July 25.
An employee told police that the
sneak-thief grabbed a bunch of contraband
from the store near Bay 11th
streets at around 11:44 am, before fl eeing
without paying.
—Jessica Parks
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK—WINDSOR TERRACE
Crowbar criminals
A group of crooks ambushed a
teen and beat him up on Fourth Avenue
on July 6.
The 17-year-old victim told police
that the brutes hit him with a crowbar
near 47th Street at around 5 pm,
before the group threw glass bottles
at him and punched him.
Paramedics rushed the victim to
nearby NYU Langone Hospital in
stable condition for treatment of his
wounds, according to police.
Failed baddie
A would-be burglar failed to rob
a 50-year-old woman’s Seventh Avenue
house on July 15.
The victim told police that the
pilferer broke into the home near
46th Street at around midnight and
demanded money. When the victim
didn’t comply, the suspect hit her in
the head and ran off empty handed.
Bad and brutal
A brute tried to brutally rob a
man on 54th Street on July 12.
The victim told police that the pirate
pushed him to the ground near
Seventh Avenue at around 2:40 pm,
before failing to take his wallet and
fl eeing in a white SUV.
—Aidan Graham
Greenpoint man cuffed for
spying on female roommates
with hidden cameras
The defendant was a superintendent at 184 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, where he
rented out a spare bedroom to female roomates. Google
BY BEN VERDE
Cops cuffed a 57-year-old Greenpoint
man for allegedly spying on
his female roommates, according
to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s
offi ce.
Prosecutors slapped the alleged
peeping Tom with 36 counts of illegal
surveillance for recording his
unwitting housemates while in the
bathroom and in their bedrooms
without their consent.
“This defendant is accused of a
shocking invasion of privacy for allegedly
surreptitiously recording
his roommates during private moments,”
District Attorney Eric Gonzalez
said in a statement. “We will
now seek to hold him accountable
for this disturbing violation and
breach of trust.”
According to the District Attorney,
the defendant, who is a photographer
and superintendent of 184
Franklin St., the building where
he lives, planted several recording
devices between December of 2020
and January of 2021 in the bathroom
and in the spare bedroom of
his apartment, which he rented to a
24-year-old woman.
The DA’s investigation also uncovered
that the defendant similarly
spied on a 33-year-old female
roommate in December of 2018.
The investigation was spurred
when the 24-year-old woman grew
suspicious that someone had been
rifl ing through her belongings
while she was out, prompting her
to install her own hidden camera in
the room.
While reviewing the fi rst batch
of footage from her hidden camera,
she noticed an infrared light blinking
in the corner of her room — that
of a camera. When she reported this
to police, they uncovered a hidden
camera in the wall.
Police further searched the
apartment and found numerous
household objects that contained,
or were capable of containing, a
hidden camera — such as a ventbased
recording device, a SONOS
speaker, a can of air freshener, two
cellphones, and an alarm clock.
The defendant had allegedly insisted
to the victim that the clock,
air freshener, and speaker remain
in the bathroom, the victim told
prosecutors.
A review of the suspect’s hard
drives found that the bathroom
cameras were used to record the
33-year-old roommate showering,
changing, or doing other private activities,
the DA’s offi ce said.
The defendant was ordered
released without bail on July 21
and ordered to return to court on
August 18.