84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Face smusher
A cad robbed and assaulted a
woman at MetroTech Center on
Nov. 22.
The victim told police that the
brute smushed her in the face near
Willoughby Street at around 6:40
pm, causing her to fall down, before
the baddie made off with her pocketbook.
Bag snatcher
Two thieves robbed a delivery
worker on Dean Street on Nov. 22.
The victim told police that one of
the muggers tried to snatch his bag
near Boerum Place at around 4:15
pm, before the second looter brandished
a gun during a scuffl e, causing
the victim to hand over his possessions.
Bonked!
Some lunatic randomly bashed
a guy on the head at the Jay Street-
Metrotech train station.
The victim told police that the
man hit him in the head with a
wooden object unprovoked on the
stairs at the train station near Willoughby
Street at around 10:40 pm.
Ripped off
A burglar ripped off a supermarket
on Tillary Street on Nov. 23.
Employees told police that the
thief broke through a window sometime
around 2:10 am and made off
with $7,600 from the cash register.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE—CLINTON HILL
Bodega bandit
Two snakes made off with thousands
of dollars in cash and goods
from a Classon Avenue bodega on
Nov. 23.
Police said the thieves entered
the store near Putnam Avenue
around 9:30 that morning and asked
to buy diapers using an EBT card.
When the cashier said the transaction
wouldn’t be possible, the men
walked around the counter and one
pressed something hard into his
back and asked him to step away
from the register, while the other
kept a hand at his waistband, implying
he had a concealed fi rearm. The
two gathered up cash, jars of coins,
iPhones, and a US Green Card in a
trash can and threw it all into a car
parked outside the store.
Robbery gone awry
Police arrested a man who had
allegedly just robbed a man walking
home on Flatbush Avenue late
COURIER L 8 IFE, DECEMBER 3-9, 2021
One injured, 25 displaced
after Sunset Park fi re
Firefi ghters operated fi ve hose lines to douse an early morning Sunset Park blaze.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
on Nov. 27.
The victim said he was walking
near Fulton Street just before midnight
when the rogue approached
him and grabbed his backpack. The
robber dragged him down the street
has he punched and kicked, trying
to keep hold of the bag, eventually
shaking him off and running away
— and immediately being apprehended
by an offi cer after the victim
fl agged down nearby cops.
All the victim’s stolen stuff was
returned before police brought the
alleged thief to the precinct.
On the job
Some reprobate picked a fi ght
with a school safety offi cer at M.S.
113 on Adelphi Street on Nov. 22.
Police said the pugilist entered
the school near DeKalb Avenue at
around 7pm and put some boxes
down in the vestibule. The safety offi
cer told him he couldn’t leave them
there, which prompted the wayward
deliveryman to try to get past him,
then try to leave the building, and
then allegedly run right into the offi
cer in an attempt to force his way
past him. The victim placed him in
metal restraints and called police.
Cops arrested the man on
charges including assault and disorderly
conduct.
Thousands of tools
A sneak wormed his way into a
construction site on St. Felix Street
and stole valuable tools on Nov. 19.
The head of construction at
the site near Hanson Place said he
locked up the gate when he left on
the evening of the 19th, a Friday.
But when he returned at 7am on
the 22nd, the gate was unlocked and
$10,000 worth of DeWalt, Makita and
Festool tools had been stolen — and,
to add insult to injury, the burglar
had left behind their crowbar.
All in the family
A greedy cousin may have stolen
a bunch of Nike sneakers from
a Monument Walk apartment sometime
between Nov. 20 and 23.
The victim said he had a collection
of Nike sneakers stacked
up in his apartment near Park Avenue
– until the morning of Nov.
23, when he suddenly realized they
were gone and reported it to police.
Only one other person has a key to
the apartment, which he said is always
locked when he’s not home – a
cousin of his who had been staying
with them until he was kicked out
the week before.
Bold bolt cutting
A sneak-thief broke into a Lafayette
Avenue grocery store after closing
on Nov. 26.
Police said the victim locked up
the store near Cumberland Street
at about 11pm on Nov. 25, and at 7:40
the next morning to fi nd that someone
had snipped open the store’s
gate and stolen more than $8,000 in
cash, cigarettes, and lottery tickets
— and left the bolt cutters sitting on
the store’s counter.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Fired
An arsonist set fi re to an 18th Avenue
corner store on Nov. 20.
An employee told police that the
good-for-nothing let himself into the
store between 80th and 81st streets
and turned off the alarm at around
9:20 am before setting fi re to the store
using lighter fl uid and a match.
Hole in a wall
A thief broke into an 86th street
store via a hole in a wall on Nov. 22.
An employee told police that the
lout made the hole into the store between
Stillwell Avenue and W. 13th
Street from the property next door
and exited at around 2:40 am with
unknown goods.
Dine and dash
A carjacker stole a car parked at
Mcdonald Avenue on Nov. 26.
The victim told police that they
were ordering food across the street
at the intersection of Kings Highway
at around 12:40 pm, but when he
came back to his car, it was gone.
—Jessica Parks
BY LLOYD MITCHELL
More than two dozen Brooklynites
are without a home Saturday
morning after a Sunset Park
eatery and the apartments above
it caught fi re.
Fire Department offi cials said
the two-alarm blaze broke out in
the kitchen of Kulu Desserts, a
bakery near the corner of Eighth
Avenue and 62nd Street, just after
7:30 am on Nov. 27.
The inferno extended into the
building’s apartments, raging
up through the fourth fl oor.
Smoke eaters stretched and
operated fi ve hose lines to douse
the fi re, which took more than
an hour to subdue. The blaze was
deemed under control by fi re offi
cials at 9:10 am.
One fi refi ghter suffered minor
injuries, according to the
FDNY, but searches for trapped
civilians came up negative and
no residents appeared to be
hurt.
However, Red Cross is currently
assisting at least 25 people
who were displaced by the blaze.
The cause of the fi re remains
under investigation.