84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Smoking snakes
Two goons assaulted a guy on
Jay Street on Aug. 30.
The victim told cops he was waiting
for the train in the Jay Street-
Metrotech station at 1:26 am when
he saw the two men smoking near
two women. When he asked them
not to smoke near the women, they
chased him out of the station near
Fulton Street, punched him several
times, and slashed him in the
face.
iPhone madman
Some thief robbed a Fulton
Street phone shop and threatened
an employee on August 30.
Employees told cops the criminal
nabbed a phone from the store
near Elm Street at around 3:55 pm
and ran out of the store. When an
employee caught up with him, he
fl ashed a pocket knife and said ‘I
will f----- stab you, you don’t know
me.’
Raised a cane
A lout assaulted a man on Duffi
eld Street on September 2.
The victim told cops he was
walking near Willoughby Street at
around 9:55 pm, when the madman
hit him over the head with a cane.
Beemer baddie
A carjacker poached a pricey
car from a Boerum Place garage on
Sept 2.
According to the report, the
thief snuck into the garage near
Court Street at around 11:40, obtained
a set of keys, and used them
to make off with a BMW.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Craving gourmet
A baddie robbed a Fulton Street
deli late on Aug. 29.
The victim told police that
walked into Roll and X Deli near
South Portland Avenue holding a
handgun and demanding money
from the register. An employee
handed over $1,000, and the man
ran down Fulton Street toward Vanderbilt
Avenue.
Police assault
A bozo hit a passing police offi -
cer in the arm with a bottle on Aug.
29 on Fleet Walk.
The offi cer told his fellow boys
in blue that the punk hit him on the
arm with a glass bottle at the Ingersoll
Houses near Tillary Street.
COURIER LIFE, S 8 EPTEMBER 17-23, 2021
Trucker fatally hits woman
pushing toddler in stroller
The intersection of Myrtle and Bedford avenues in Bedford-Stuyvest. Google
Package swiper
Not even a closed door could save
packages from a determined thief
on Vanderbilt Avenue on Sept. 1.
The victim told police that the
purloiner threw a glass bottle
through a glass front door, shattering
the door, then reached in and
stole three packages.
Fundraising
An e-bandit tried to blackmail
someone into making a donation on
Aug. 31 on Willoughby Avenue.
The victim told police that they
received a Facebook message with
explicit photos of himself attached.
The goon who sent the photos said
they would forward them to the
victim’s loved ones unless he sent
$5,000 to an organization that fi ghts
child hunger.
No seat, no problem
A weasel rode off with an electric
bicycle that had been parked on
Downing Street on Aug. 31.
The victim told police he had
parked the e-bike, worth about
$2,000, between Fulton Street and
Putnam Avenue late on Aug. 30, taking
the seat with him. When he returned
the next afternoon, it was
gone without a trace.
Spam calls
One villain took spam calls to
the next level on Aug. 31 when he
called a woman multiple times on
different numbers at her Cumberland
Walk apartment and told her
she needed to send ransom money to
release her mother, who he claimed
he had kidnapped.
The victim told police that the
scammer asked for about $10,000 total,
and she ended up sending just
under $3,000 to different people before
she learned her mother was
safe and sound.
Broken windows
A sneak took advantage of an
open car window on Fulton Street
on Sept. 2 to reach in and steal a
backpack.
The victim told police that theyparked
her car at the corner of Classon
Street with the doors locked
and a window cracked for about an
hour. When she returned, her backpack
was missing, along with her
credit card and iPhone 12. Offi cers
searched the area and came up with
the backpack, but the cards and cell
phone had been taken out.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Buggin’
A crook snagged two bottles of insecticide
from a W. 25th Street apartment
complex on Aug. 11.
An employee of the apartment
complex told police that she returned
to work and found the glass on both
doors to the storage room between
Mermaid and Surf avenues had been
smashed open at around 10 am with
the supplies stolen.
Donut patrol
A bandit snagged a police offi cer’s
wallet while at a Surf Avenue donut
shop on Aug. 28.
The offi cer told fellow police offi
cers that she left her waller on the
counter between W. 12th Street and
Stillwell Avenue at around 5:30 am
and returned to fi nd it gone.
Phone fi shing
A phone thief catfi shed a man pretending
to be a woman and lured him
to a W. 28th Street apartment on Sept.
1.
The victim told police that the
brute attacked him and stole his
phone at the apartment building between
Mermaid and Surf Avenue at
around 9:45 pm. .
— Jessica Parks
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A truck driver fatally ran over
a woman pushing her one-yearold
niece in a stroller on Myrtle
Avenue on Thursday morning, according
to police.
The 62-year-old and the toddler
were crossing near at Bedford Avenue
in Bedford-Stuyvesant just
before 11 am, when the fl atbed
truck driver heading east struck
her, but luckily missed the child.
Paramedics rushed the woman,
who has not been identifi ed pending
family notifi cation, to Brooklyn
Hospital where she was pronounced
dead.
The one-year-old girl was
brought to Bellevue Hospital in
Manhattan for evaluation but only
suffered minor injuries, according
to a Police Department spokesman.
The 38-year-old driver stayed
on scene, but cops have not made
arrests and say they don’t suspect
any criminality.
An NYPD spokesman said on
background that the woman was
traversing Myrtle Avenue outside
the crosswalk and that the trucker
didn’t see her when he started
moving after he got the light.
Once he hit the elderly woman,
he stopped his vehicle, cops said.
There have been at least 20
crashes at the intersection with
41 people injured at that intersection
since August 2011, according
to the website NYC Crash Mapper.