60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Mr. Knife Guy
A knife-wielding wacko attacked
a man inside a W. 23rd Street housing
complex on Aug. 23.
The victim told police he was disembarking
an elevator inside the
residential complex between Surf
and Mermaid avenues at 6:53 p.m.,
when the nut suddenly slashed him.
Police came up empty following a
search of the area, while paramedics
rushed the victim to Lutheran Hospital
for treatment, cops said.
Bullet for dessert
A gunman shot a man outside a
Cropsey Avenue diner on Aug. 25.
The victim told police he was exiting
the eatery between Bay 52nd
Street and Canal Avenue at 4:29 a.m.,
when he felt a sudden pain in his left
ankle and looked down to realize
he’d been shot.
Police recovered a single shell
casing and one bullet, but found the
victim “highly uncooperative,” cops
said.
Out of gas
A thief made off with two Honda
gas generators from a storage room
within a W. 25th Street housing complex
on Aug. 2.
The crook forced open a door into
a maintenance area at the residential
building between Surf Avenue
and Riegelmann Boardwalk at 5
p.m., before making off with the generators,
cops said.
In and out
A burglar looted a Brighton
Fourth Street apartment on Aug. 24.
Investigators aren’t sure how the
crook made his way into the apartment
between Ocean View Avenue
and Brighton Beach Avenue, but say
he nabbed an iPhone 7 and various
electronics before fl eeing out the
front door at 9 p.m.
Looted
A thief ransacked a man’s Ocean
View Avenue home on Aug. 24, nabbing
more than $15,000 worth of
cash, jewelry, and electronics.
The victim told police he left his
home between Brighton Third and
Brighton Fourth streets at 8:30 p.m.,
and returned later to fi nd someone
had cleaned out his bedroom.
His son — who was home at the
time of the break in — said he assumed
the sounds he heard upstairs
was his father, according to police.
Investigators believe the thief entered
through a window that leads
directly into the bedroom, which the
thief was able to loot without venturing
into other parts of the home, cops
said.
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61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Knife guys
Two knife-wielding scumbags
robbed a delivery woman inside a
Avenue W housing complex on Aug.
21.
The victim told police the crooks
met her in the lobby of the building
near E. 29th Street at 12:40 a.m.,
when one of them pulled a knife and
grabbed the package, which contained
two cheeseburgers, sweet
potato fries, and a caramel cheesecake.
Police searched the area following
the robbery, but came up short of
fi nding their suspects, cops said.
Sneaker scam
A gunman stolen $450 and an iPhone
8 off a 18-year-old man on Nostrand
Avenue on Aug. 25.
The victim told police he’d arranged
the meet the crook in order
to purchase sneakers from him near
Avenue V at 4:38 p.m., but the crook
pulled a gun on him and nabbed his
valuables.
Candid camera
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
looting a woman’s Avenue T home on
Aug. 19.
The suspect entered the home
near. E. Sixth Street through an unlocked
door on the fi rst fl oor at 11:40
p.m., when he started gathering the
victim’s jewelry together, cops said.
Unbeknownst to the him, however,
the victim began spying on
suspect through security cameras
located inside the property
after he tripped a motion sensor,
and cops arrived to fi nd him cowering
in the basement, according
to police.
— Colin Mixson
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Jewelry heist
Cops cuffed three teenagers for
allegedly punching a 17-year-old and
stealing his jewelry on 20th Avenue
on Aug. 23.
The victim told police that the
suspects approached him near Bay
Ridge Avenue at 11 p.m., when they
punched him in the face and threw
him onto the ground, before nabbing
his bling.
The teenager joined patrolmen
on a search of the area, where he was
able to point out his attackers, cops
said
Shopping spree
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing a woman’s credit card
on Bay Parkway on Aug 20.
The victim told police she was
in the defendant’s car between W.
Ninth and W. 10th streets at 4 p.m.,
when she stepped out of the vehicle
amid an argument, and accidentally
left her wallet inside the car.
Later that day, the victim’s bank
notifi ed her that her credit card
had fueled an illicit $49 spending
spree, cops said.
Batter’s up
Six crooks beat two men with
a bat, before robbing them on Bay
Ridge Avenue on Aug. 19.
The victims told police the ruffi
ans attacked them between 14th
and 15th avenues at 12:30 a.m. beating
them bloody and bruised with
the bat.
The low lives swiped $200 and
credit cards from one of the men,
before hightailing it, cops said.
Elder abuse
An 85-year-old woman said that a
thief snatched $302 and jewelry from
her Bay Parkway home sometime
between Aug. 20 and 21.
The woman told police that the
bandit, who she suspects is her substitute
home aide, swiped her stuff
from a dining room drawer in her
apartment between Bath and Benson
avenues under the guise of caring
for her.
Fake friend
A man took $1,300 from an 18-
year-old boy after threatening to
stab him on 20th Avenue on Aug.
21.
The victim told police that the
robber approached his car at 4 a.m.,
and said that he was the brother
of the victim’s friend, and that he
needed a ride.
As the victim went to drop the
perp off on 20th Avenue and 85th
Street, the crook, who had a knife
attached to his waste, grabbed the
boy’s wallet, and said, “Do you
want to get stabbed?” before fl eeing
the vehicle, cops said.
— Rose Adams
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Sunset shakedown
A scumbag tried to extort a man
by threatening his family on Fourth
Avenue on Aug. 23.
The victim told police that he
was at work near the intersection of
49th Street when an unknown phone
number texted him a picture of his
family and demanded that he wire
the crook $400 at around 11:30 a.m.
Brutal bandits
Three brutes robbed a man on
49th Street on Aug. 19.
The victim told police that he was
between Sixth and Seventh avenues
when the bruisers approached and
asked for the time at around 3 a.m.,
when the victim took out his cell
phone, and the perps smashed a glass
bottle over his head, before grabbing
the phone and running off.
Bank fraud
A scammer stole $1,700 from a
28th Street man’s bank account on
Aug. 14.
The victim, who lives between
Third and Fourth avenues, told police
that the swindler withdrew the
cash from a bank location using
forged documents at around 10:30
a.m.
Wheel lame
A tire-thief stole the wheels off a
car that was parked on Third Avenue
on Aug. 20.
The victim told police that he left
the car between 18th and 19th street
at 9 a.m., and returned an hour later
to fi nd his car on blocks.
Mail thief
A crook stole several packages
from a 34th Street apartment building
on Aug. 21.
The building superintendent
told police that the perp entered the
building between Fourth and Fifth
avenues at around 3 p.m. and stole
$200 worth of mail.
Carjacker
A thief looted a car parked on Seventh
Avenue on Aug. 19.
The victim told police that he left
the car between 57th and 58th streets
at 3 p.m., returning about six hours
later to fi nd his wallet, phone, and
electronics stolen.
Computer error
A ne’er-do-well broke a computer
at 61st Street store on Aug. 20.
A store employee told police that
the jerk angrily entered the store between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
at around 1:30 p.m. and smashed the
screen of the computer at the front
desk, before fl eeing toward Seventh
Avenue. — Aidan Graham