61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Make it snappy
A brute robbed an Avenue P convenience
store with a handgun on
Oct. 25.
An employee told police that the
thief ordered a sandwich inside the
eatery near Nostrand Avenue at
around 8:40 pm, before whipping out
the gun and grabbing $400 from the
cash register.
Bag hag
A freebooter broke into an Ocean
Parkway home and stole only a
Louis Vuitton bag on Oct. 21
The victim told police that the
thief entered the home at the intersection
of Avenue R at around 2:10
pm before making off undetected
with the $1,500 purse.
Jewel ghoul
A marauder snagged an assortment
of jewelry from a E. 19th Street
home on Oct. 23.
The victim told police that the
bandit entered through the fi re
escape of the residence near Gravesend
Neck Road at around 7 pm,
before looting the jewels and fl eeing.
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Bar brawl
A gunman shot a man while
fi ring multiple shots at a Bowery
Street bar on Oct. 25.
The victim told police that the
shooter unloaded his gun inside the
establishment between Surf Avenue
and the Riegelmann Boardwalk at
1:25 am, striking one person with
non-fatal injuries.
Paramedics treated the victim
on the scene, according to police reports.
Imcopster
Crooks posed as police and
robbed a man on W. 37th Street on
Oct. 20.
The victim told police that the
perps pretended to be offi cers and
pulled his car over near Polar Street
and Canal Avenue at around 6:30
am, before forcing him out of the vehicle
with a gun, and grabbing his
iPhone and $3,000.
Goose chase
A ruffi an hit a cop with his car
during a traffi c stop on Mermaid
Avenue on Oct. 21.
The offi cer told his fellow boys in
blue that the scoffl aw hit him while
he was attempting to remove a passenger
from the vehicle at the intersection
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of W. 23rd Street at around
12:52 pm, before the baddie fl ed the
scene.
Other offi cers later pulled the
man over again, but he hopped out
of his car and successfully fl ed on
foot, according to police reports.
— Jessica Parks
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Candy crush
A kook attacked a salesperson
with a box of candy on Cropsey Avenue
on Oct. 25.
The victim told police that he got
into an argument with a customer
at a gas station on the corner of 20th
Avenue at around noon, before the
angry patron swung a box of candy
at his face.
Seams bad
A crook stole a sewing machine
and other items from a car parked
on 81st Street on Oct. 17.
The victim told police that the pirate
popped off the lock to the front
door of his company’s van parked
between 14th and 15th avenues at
6 am, before nabbing the machine,
a jackhammer, and various other
items.
Red hot robbery
A slimeball released a fi re extinguisher
at a deli employee before robbing
the 86th Street store on Oct. 19.
The employee told police that the
robber sprayed a fi re extinguisher
at his face inside the bodega by 20th
Avenue at 10:15 am, before stealing
between $300 and $400 from an open
cash register and taking off.
— Rose Adams
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
B’Heights beatdown
A group of goons violently robbed
a man on Garden Place on Oct. 22.
The victim told police that the
ruffi ans punched and kicked him
in the face near Joralemon Street
just before 7:15 pm, before grabbing
his wallet and phone and bolting toward
State Street.
Bodega bandit
A criminal held up a Schermerhorn
Street deli on Oct. 19.
The store employee told police
that the invader simulated a gun inside
his bag and demanded he empty
the register and hand over his wallet
inside the shop near Hoyt Street
at 12:20 pm, before running off with
more than $1,300.
Suspicious spender
Cops cuffed a guy for allegedly
stealing a man’s wallet on an A
train near Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station
on Oct. 19.
The victim told police that the
suspect pickpocketed his wallet
on the train at around 4:30 pm, before
spending nearly $60 at various
stores with a stolen credit card.
Police found the man with the
stolen wallet and the ill-paid-for
goods at Nostrand Avenue near Fulton
Street on Oct. 26 and charged
him with felony grand larceny, according
to police reports.
Swiped!
Some sneak thief nabbed a sleeping
straphanger’s backpack on the
F train near Jay Street-MetroTech
station on Oct. 13.
The victim told police he fell asleep
on the Coney Island-bound train at
around 11 pm, and woke up to see
the fi lcher escape out the Downtown
Brooklyn stop with his bag.
Necklace nab
A nogoodnik snatched a woman’s
necklace on the subway near Smith
Street on Oct. 19.
The victim told police that the
malefactor pulled the golden pendant
right off her neck aboard the
northbound train near Bergen
Street, before slipping off as the
doors closed.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Parking brawl
Police arrested a man for allegedly
slamming a car door on a guy’s
leg while fi ghting for a parking spot
on Fleet Place on Oct. 19.
The victim told police that he
and the suspect got into a shouting
match over the space between Willoughby
Street and Flatbush Avenue
Ext. at 7 am, before the crook
allegedly punched him in the face
repeatedly and slammed the door
on his left leg.
Boys in Blue rushed to the scene
and cuffed the man on felony assault
charges, according to police
reports.
Platform scuffl e
Some villain punched an elderly
man and his wife at the Clinton–
Washington Av. subway stop on Oct.
19.
The 82-year-old man and 73-yearold
woman told police that they tried
to stop the underground rogue from
attacking their grandson on the Fulton
Street train platform at around
1:45 pm, before the lout socked the
man and pushed the woman onto
the southbound tracks.
The woman was able to get off
the tracks before any train came
through, according to police reports.
Choking hazard
Police arrested a man for allegedly
strangling a woman on Monument
Walk on Oct. 21.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly choked her and
hit her in the face between Navy
Street and Park Avenue at 9 pm, before
breaking her television.
Police rushed to the scene and
arrested the man on felony charges
just after 10 pm, according to police
reports.
Burned!
A bus driver was hospitalized after
some scumbag threw hot liquid
at him on Fulton Street on Oct. 22.
The victim told police that the
jerk hurled the roasting drink at his
face at St. Felix Street at 12:30 am,
burning his eyes.
Paramedics brought the transit
employee to Brooklyn Hospital for
treatment, according to police reports.
Yeezus!
A gang of delinquents stole a
teen’s sneakers on Grand Avenue on
Oct. 23.
The victim told police that the
goons ambushed him and pushed
him to the ground at Lafayette Avenue
at 6:15 pm, before pulling off
his Yeezy shoes and making a run
for it.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Home invasion
A sneak thief broke into a Union
Street home and stole $245 worth
of goods sometime between Oct. 21
and Oct. 25.
The victim told police that the
good-for-nothing broke into the basement
apartment of the multi-family
dwelling between Clinton and Court
streets and stole a bike, straws, fl axseed
oil, and bottled water.
— Rose Adams