61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Un-tased
Two bicycle-riding brigands attempted
to mug two people walking
on E. 23rd Street on Oct. 18.
The victims told police that the
pillagers bransiehd knives while
attacking them near Avenue S at
around 2:30 am, when a third bozo
arrived with a stun gun, which the
victims wrestled out of his hands
causing the three attackers to fl ee.
Sleeping burglary
A bandit looted a Voorhies Avenue
apartment while a man was
sleeping on Oct. 14
The victim told police that he
woke up as the home invader was
leaving the apartment at the intersection
of Bedford Avenue around
2:15 pm with a handful of stolen belongings.
Cuffi ng season
A freebooter snagged handcuffs,
a laptop, and a radio from Stuart St.
building on Oct. 14.
One of the victims told police
that the thief broke into the building
at the intersection of Avenue S
by smashing the window of the back
door at around 12:22 am, before fl eeing
with the contraband.
Go take a bike
A knife-weilding brute stole
a man’s cell phone and jacket on
Kings Highway on Oct. 17.
The victim told police that the
pilferer approached at the corner of
Ocean Ave at around 9:40 pm, before
stealing his e-bike and riding off.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Deli robbery
A marauder held up a 17th Avenue
deli on Oct. 12.
An employee told police that the
slimeball whipped out a gun and demanded
cash inside the store near
66th Street at 10 am, but when he
refused, the robber punched and
kicked the victim, before stealing
$4,000 and his cellphone.
Elder abuse
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
shoving a 70-year-old man to the
ground on Bay Parkway on Oct. 13.
The victim told police that he
and the defendant, who he did not
know, got into an argument on the
corner of W. 10th Street at 2:05 pm,
before the suspect pushed him to
the ground.
EMS treated the victim on the
scene for laceration and bruising to
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCT. 23-29, 2020
Man charged with attempted
rape of 85-year-old woman
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both arms, according to police reports.
Gold digger
A teenager stole a glitzy trinket
from an 86th street jewelry store on
Oct. 10.
An employee told police that she
was showing the $1,000 gem to the
teen bandit inside the shop near
Bay 26th Street at 3 pm, when the
young man snatched the item and
said, “You’re not getting this back!”
before hightailing it.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Chewed out!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
biting a guy in the face on the
F train on Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly lunged toward
him unprovoked aboard a Manhattan
bound train at Smith and Ninth
streets and sank his teeth into the
victim’s cheek.
Cops collared the suspect for
felony assault charges, while paramedics
brought the victim to Methodist
hospital for treatment, according
to police reports.
Caned!
Some jerk smacked a guy with
a cane during a robbery on Joralemon
Street on Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
brute picked up the stick off the
ground at Court Street at 1:40 pm,
before hitting him over the head
and running off with his phone.
Up in smoke!
A villain held up a smoke shop
on Livingston Street on Oct. 13.
The victim told police that simulated
having a gun inside the storefront
at Nevins Street at 3:30 am before
jumping over the counter and
emptying the register, bagging a total
of $300.
Peer pressure
Cops arrested a guy for allegedly
robbing $1,000 from another guy at
Flatbush Avenue on Oct. 13.
The victim told police that the
suspect and two other box-knife
wielding baddies allegedly forced
the victim to withdraw cash from a
bank machine near Fulton Mall at
around 3:25 pm, before running off
with the ill-gotten green.
Police collared one of the men on
felony robbery charges at the scene,
according to police reports.
Clean sweep!
A looter raided a Livingston
Street dry cleaners in the early
hours of Oct 17.
A store worker told police that
the bandit busted the front glass
door of the storefront between Hoyt
and Smith streets at 1:40 am and
raided all four registers, snagging
$450 in cash.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Raucous rider
Some scumbag attacked a bus
driver on Myrtle Avenue on Oct. 14.
The victim told police that she
asked the menace to make way for
a disabled passenger aboard the bus
near Vanderbilt Avenue at 12:30 pm,
but the baddie hurled hot coffee at
the driver, burning her face.
Park prowlers
A group of goons ambushed a
man in Fort Greene Park on Oct.
18.
The victim told police that the
louts demanded his phone inside
the green space near Willoughby
and St. Edwards streets at around
12:20 pm, before another ne’er-dowell
snatched his car keys and the
two goons bolted.
Scoot!
A sneak thief stole the batteries
from a Revel Scooter on Park Avenue
on Oct. 13.
A witness told police that the
scoundrel removed the $1,600 battery
from the blue rental motorbike
between Navy and St. Edwards
streets at around 12:20 am.
Lobby loot
A package pirate raided a Lafayette
Avenue building lobby on Oct.
13.
The victim told police that the
fi lcher picked the lock of the building
between Carlton Avenue and
Adelphi Street at 9:35 pm and took an
undelivered fl eece and cosmetics.
— Kevin Duggan
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
Cops arrested a man who they
say tried to rape an elderly woman
in Bay Ridge on Oct. 15..
According to police, at 11:30 am
on Oct. 15 the NYPD was notifi ed
about a sexual assault attempt at a
residential building in the vicinity
of Marine Avenue and 94th Street.
Upon their arrival, offi cers learned
that an 85-year-old woman had been
the victim of a sexual assault in the
laundry room of the building at 9:30
that morning.
EMS took the victim to NYU
Langone Hospital in stable condition,
according to police.
Following a subsequent investigation,
offi cers arrested 25-year-old
Mario Pope in connection to the incident.
At this time it is not immediately
clear what happened, however
police allege that Pope, who does
not live in the victim’s building,
went into the building and down to
the basement prior to the incident.
Pope was charged with attempted
rape, burglary, sex abuse,
forcible touching, and unlawful imprisonment.
Rape is up more than 27 percent
year-to-date compared to 2019 in the
68th Precinct, where the incident
occurred, according to NYPD data.