60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Bottom dollar
Housebreakers snagged $17,000
from a Brighton Third Street apartment
on Feb. 23.
The victim told police that the
thieves broke in through the front
door of the apartment between
Ocean View and Brighton Beach avenues
between 6:30 and 8:30 pm, before
grabbing the cash from the bottom
drawer of a dresser.
Save the fl owers
Three gun-wielding pillagers
robbed two women inside an Ocean
Parkway store on Feb. 21.
The victims told police that the
three thieves entered the fl ower
shop at the intersection of Shore
Parkway at around 7:45 pm before
taking $3,300 from the women.
Boxing match
A bandit hit her friend in the face
with a crate of VHS tapes at an Avenue
V public housing complex on
Feb. 22.
The victim told police that the
two got into an argument between
Stillwell Avenue and W. 11th Street
at around 8:10 pm, before she attacked
him with the tapes.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Surprise delivery
Two savages attacked a deliveryman
and stole his car on Village
Road East on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that the
baddies put him in a chokehold and
punched him in the face while he
was making a delivery at the intersection
of Lake Street and stole his
cellphone around 8:30 pm before
fl eeing in his car.
Unregistered
A bandit looted money from the
cash register in an Avenue X storefront
on Feb. 17.
An employee told police that
the good-for-nothing broke into the
business at the intersection of W.
Third Street through a side window
at around 3 am, before grabbing the
cash and running off.
Model-o citizen
A beer-fi ending purloiner stole
multiple 18 oz cans of Modelo from
an Avenue U store on Feb. 18.
The victim told police that the
ruffi an threatened him with a boxcutter
inside the store at the intersection
of Ocean Avenue at around
5:20 am before, fl eeing.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER L 8 IFE, FEB. 28-MAR. 5, 2020
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Choco-holic
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing $36 of chocolate from a
Court Street pharmacy on Feb. 10.
Employees told police that the
suspect allegedly put several milk
chocolates and truffl es into a Trader
Joe’s bag inside the store on the corner
of Pacifi c Street at 3:31 pm, before
running off without paying.
Cops caught up with the suspect
a week later when he returned
to the store, and charged him with
petty larceny and criminal possession
of stolen property, according to
police reports.
Cheat sheet
A thief nabbed bed sheets from a
Pacifi c Street home on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that the
bandit stole the package, containing
the $70 sheets, from the vestibule
of a residence between Henry
and Clinton streets at 7 am.
Plate pirate
A fi lcher snagged two license
plates from a subway station on
Smith/9th Streets on Feb. 21.
The victim told cops that he put
the two license plates down while
buying a MetroCard at the station
near Smith Street at 6 pm, but the
pirate had stolen them by the time
he returned 30 minutes later.
Package pilferer
A thief stole $50 worth of home
goods from a Sullivan Street porch
on Feb. 17.
The victim told police that the
looter nabbed a package containing
two high-end coffee containers, ecofriendly
soap, and a carrot peeler
from her porch between Van Brunt
and Richards streets at 11:43 am.
— Rose Adams
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Bottle bruiser
Some madman assaulted a guy
on Fifth Avenue on Feb. 17.
The victim told police that the
villain walloped him in the head
with a glass bottle near 48th Street
at around 10:40 pm, causing cuts
and bleeding to his head.
Three-on-one
Cops cuffed two men who allegedly
robbed a victim on Seventh Avenue
on Feb. 22.
The victim told police that the two
21-year-olds suspects, along with another
person who remains at large,
allegedly pushed them against a car
near 62nd Street at 10 pm, before
grabbing the victim’s phone and
fl eeing in a Toyota Camry.
Authorities caught up with two
of the suspects and slapped them
with robbery charges, according to
police reports.
Hacked!
Two shysters scammed an Uber
driver on 61st Street on Feb. 23.
The victim told police that he
picked up the two scammers near
Eighth Avenue at around 11:45,
when one of them grabbed his phone
and transferred $871 out of the drivers
Uber account into his personal
account while the victim was distracted.
Ne’er-do-well
Some pirate brutally robbed a
guy on Third Avenue on Feb. 22.
The victim told police that the
pillager punched him in the face
and grabbed his chain near 46th
Street at around 4:58 pm, before elbowing
his friend in the face and
fl eeing.
Hotel pilferer
A cat burglar ripped off a hotel
room on 61st Street on Feb. 14.
The victim told police that the
weasel broke into his room in the
hotel near Eighth Avenue at around
noon and made off with a $700 laptop
and $400.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Shots fi red
“Shotspotter” technology detected
gunfi re on Fifth Avenue on
Feb. 18.
The device picked up two rounds
of gunfi re near Warren Street at
around 6:13 pm, but no 911 call was
made, and police could not fi nd evidence
at the scene.
Trespasser
Cops cuffed a woman for allegedly
trespassing at an Eighth Avenue
homeless shelter on Feb. 17.
Shelter employees told police that
the suspect entered the shelter near
14th Street at around 2:15 pm after
being banned from the shelter, and
refused to leave.
Authorities arrived and cuffed
the women for criminal trespassing.
Miscreant
Some trespasser crept on a Bergen
Street apartment building on
Feb. 21.
Residents told police that they
saw the prowler on the second fl oor
of the building near Fifth Avenue at
around 1:15 am, but when they confronted
him, he ran off. — Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Sneaker thief
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing a man’s pricey sneakers
at the Lafayette Avenue C train
station on Feb. 18.
The victim told police that the
suspect and four others allegedly
snatched his $1,000 Balenciaga
shoes at Fulton Street at 3:15 pm.
Authorities caught up with the
suspect at the station and arrested
him on felony robbery charges, according
to police reports.
Botched robbery
Two scoundrels jumped a group
of teens and tried to rob them on
Greene Avenue on Feb. 20.
The victims told police that the
punks demanded their phones and
threatened to pistol-whip them between
Adelphi Street and Clermont
Avenue at 2 pm, before punching
one of the youngsters in the face and
running off.
Park pilferers
Knife-wielding knaves jumped a
guy in Fort Greene park on Feb. 21.
The victim told police that the
two villains approached with a
knife near Washington Park and
Willoughby Avenue at 10:25 pm, before
grabbing the cash from his wallet
and running off.
Slasher
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stabbing another man on St.
James Place on Feb. 17.
A witness told police that the the
suspect slashed the man in the neck
after an argument between Dekalb
and Lafayette avenues at 4 am.
First responders rushed to the
scene and found the victim with a
stab wound on his neck and the abdomen,
and took him to Methodist
Hospital for treatment.
Police caught up with the man
on Classon Avenue at 11:30 am and
arrested him on felony assault
charges, according to the authorities.
— Kevin Duggan