61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Hot wheels
Pilferers snagged all four tires
and the rims from a vehicle parked
on E. 66th Street on March 23.
The victim told police that he
parked his Honda Accord in a driveway
between Avenue T and Avenue
U and returned to his car around 5
am to fi nd the $2,400 wheels missing.
Bike hike
Crooks snagged an e-bike that
was briefl y left unattended in front
of a Nostrand Avenue storefront on
March 25.
The victim told police that he
ran into the supermarket between
Avenue N and Kings Highway for
ten minutes around 9:40 when the
thieves stole his bike.
Power Hour
Robbers swiped nearly $4,000 of
power tools from a car parked on
Hendrickson Street on March 29.
The victim told police that he returned
to his vehicle between Avenue
V and Avenue U and found the
windows smashed around 9 am and
noticed the equipment missing.
— Jessica Parks
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREEN-CLINTON HILL
Biker gang
Three criminals ambushed an ebiker
on Hall Street on March 28.
The victim told police that the
dirtbags surrounded him and
pushed him off his two-wheeler
near Willoughby Avenue at 7:20 pm
before demanding cash and food —
but the victim fought them off, causing
them to make a run for it with
his $1,600 electric bicycle.
All in the family
A man attacked his own mother
with a case of water on Clinton Avenue
apartment on March 24.
The victim told police that she
was trying to break up a fi ght between
her two sons between Park
and Myrtle avenues at 7 pm when
the brute threw the case at her
hand.
Sleepy strangler
Police arrested a woman they
suspect of strangling a man inside
his Adelphi Street apartment on
March 25.
The victim told police that he was
lying in his bed when the suspect,
who seemed like she was drunk, allegedly
choked him between Park
and Myrtle avenues around 11:20
pm.
COURIER L 8 IFE, APRIL 3-9, 2020
Suspect arrested for
alleged Tylenol heist
Police found the man on the roof of a nearby store. Photo by Llyod Mitchell
Cops arrested the woman and
charged her with felony assault.
Choked!
Cops arrested a man they allege
strangled a woman at her Downing
Street apartment on March 28.
The victim told police that he two
were having a fi ght, when the suspect
allegedly spat in the victim’s
face and slapped her between Putnam
and Gates avenues at around
9 pm before grabbing her neck until
she lost consciousness.
Police arrested the man 15 minutes
later and slapped him with felony
assault charges.
What a tool!
A looter stole tools from a car
parked on Dekalb Avenue some
time between March 20-25.
The victim told police that he left
his car between Ashland and Rockwell
places, but when he returned,
he saw that someone had busted his
rear windshield and stolen a droplight
and his tool bag.
Subway swipe
Some purloiner snatched a woman’s
phone on the C train near Fulton
Street on March 22.
The victim told police that the
roughly 20-year-old nogoodnik
grabbed her phone and ran out of
the train at the Lafayette Avenue
station at 2:40 pm.
The woman attempted to chance
the man, but he got away, cops said.
What a poser!
Some shyster pretending to work
for a modeling agency scammed a
woman out of $2,000 at Cumberland
Walk on March 24.
The victim told police that the
huckster texted the victim while
she was between Myrtle and Park
avenues at 8 pm they were going to
send her a $2,450 check if she sent
him $2,000 fi rst via the Cash App.
Cashless
A scoundrel stole money from a
delivery driver on Myrtle Avenue
on March 26.
The victim told police that he
walked back to his car after dropping
off a delivery at Washington
Park at 12:20 pm, when he noticed
that receipts were scattered around
and cash was missing from his front
passenger seat.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Bike bandit
A thief snagged a bike from an
Amity Street apartment building
on March 28.
The victim told police that the
good-for-nothing stole the $240 bike
from the hallway of the building
between Clinton and Court Street
sometime between 5 pm and 10 pm.
Carjacking
A carjacker broke a window and
stole a cellphone on Columbia Street
on March 30.
The victim told cops that he was
walking in Red Hook Park when the
nogoodnik punched the window of
his car parked on the corner of Bay
Street at around 10:45 am before
reaching in and snagging his $600
iPhone 8.
Stoop looter
A porch pirate snagged a $150
shelf delivered to a Third Place
house on March 21.
The victim told police that he
was at home when the mail carrier
dropped off the package containing
the mounted shelf at his stoop in
the morning, but when he went to
retrieve the package, it was gone.
Shop and stop
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing $430 worth of good from a
Mill Street grocery store.
An employee told police that the
suspect entered the store between
Hicks and Henry Street at around
8:45 am and allegedly nabbed a black
backpack, and iPhone charger, a
Pennsylvania license plate, groceries,
and $200 cash before exiting.
— Rose Adams
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
A man was taken into custody
early March 27 after, cops say, he
attempted to steal Tylenol and
cash from a Flatbush deli.
The incident occurred just after
4:30 am inside Avenue H Deli,
at the corner of Avenue H and
Utica Avenue. offi cers surrounded
the building shortly after.
The suspect, who was wearing
a black hat and mask, was found
on the roof of an adjacent building
at about 7:10 am.
“I am shocked, be nice to the
neighbor,” deli owner Abdulla
Musaid said. “In 20 years, something
like this has never happened
to me. I want to thank the
police for catching the suspect.”
The NYPD could not provide
further information on the incident,
or the suspect’s charges.
While citywide crime rates
have plummeted amid the coronavirus
shutdown, burglaries
are only down slightly in the 63rd
Precinct, according to NYPD statistics.
On the other hand, robberies
are up more than 200
percent year-to-date in the 63rd
Precinct, with 26 recorded so far
this year as opposed to eight this
time last year. Grand larcenies
are also up more than 30 percent
year-to-date.