60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Haterade
A gun-wielding scoundrel
snagged Pepsi and Gatorade from a
Mermaid Avenue bodega on Feb. 3.
The victim told police that the
freebooter waved a black fi rearm
in the store at the corner of W. 32nd
Street at around 4:35 pm before stealing
the drinks and running off.
Corona fever
A highway robber mugged $300
and an iPhone from a victim on
Neptune Avenue on Feb. 5.
The victim told police that he had
purchased two Coronas from a store
near the corner of Brighton Fourth
Street around 2 am when the bandit
attacked him and stole his belongings.
Furry fi end
A bandit stole multiple items of
clothing from the back seat of a vehicle
on Bay 49th Street on Feb. 3.
The victim told police that the
raider broke into the back window
of the car parked between Haraway
and Cropsey avenues at 5:30 pm and
snagged $1,375 worth of coats.
Grand theft
A looter stole cash, electronics,
and a backpack from a vehicle on
Cropsey Avenue on Feb. 2.
The victim told police that he
returned to his car near Bay 53rd
Street at around 3 pm and found
$5,290 worth of cash and property
missing.
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SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Laundry looter
A bandit swiped cash from a
laundry room on Ocean Avenue on
Jan. 14.
The victim told police that the
looter covered security cameras inside
the laundry room at the corner
of Voorhies Avenues at around noon
while he stole $350 and made off undetected.
iPhony
A scoundrel tried to rob an iPhone
on Avenue U on Feb. 5
The victim told police that the
malcontent threatened them with
a knife at the corner of Ocean Avenue
around 3 pm, but ran off emptyhanded
shortly after.
Bike burglar
A pilferer stole a bicycle from a
home on First Court on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that the
looter snagged the $500 bike from
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her shed near Avenue R while the
victim was on vacation.
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Jewel tool
A robber threatened to stab a
woman and snatched her jewelry on
Bay 11 Street on Feb. 8.
The victim told police that the
looter snatched her bag between
Benson Avenue and 86th Street at
11:30 pm and then pulled out a silver
box cutter and demanded her jewels,
before fl eeing southbound.
Phone fi lcher
Five bandits nabbed two phones
and $25 from a man on New Utrecht
Avenue on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that the
group of pirates punched and kicked
him between 73rd and 74th streets
at midnight, before stealing his iPhone
4, a Motorola fl ip phone, and
cash.
E-con man
A fraudster stole $17,000 from a
63rd Street woman on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that she
received an email requesting the
money from what appeared to be her
lawyer’s email while at her home between
24th Avenue and Dahill Road
at 1:40 pm, so she wired the money
— and later discovered the email
had been a fraud.
Violent robbery
Police cuffed a suspect for allegedly
punching a man and stealing
him phone on 86 Street on Feb. 6.
The victim told police that the
defendant and an accomplice allegedly
punched him multiple times in
the face between 24th and 25th avenues
at 2:40 pm and snatched his
phone before running off.
Cops later found one of the alleged
perpetrators and arrested
him on felony robbery charges.
— Amalia Arms
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Gym rat
A bandit stole a girl’s AirPods
and cash from a Baltic Street school
gym on Feb. 10.
The 17-year-old victim told police
that the looter swiped $68 and
AirPods from her gym locker at the
school between Smith and Court
streets sometime between 11 am
and 1 pm.
Seems fi shy
A thief swiped $300 worth of
salmon from a Court Street grocery
store sometime on Feb. 9.
An employee told police that the
pirate pocketed 12 packets of salmon
inside the store on the corner of Atlantic
Avenue at 8:40 pm before fl eeing.
iSwipe
A burglar nabbed an iPhone 6s
from a Beard Street Ikea on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that she
accidentally left her phone in the
store’s bathroom by Otsego Street at
3 pm, but the thief swiped it before
the victim noticed.
Friend or foe
A jerk stole $100 from his friend’s
Hoyt Street house on Feb. 1.
The victim told police that her
swindling acceptance took the cash
from her pants pocket inside the
home between Baltic and Douglas
streets sometime between 8 pm and
6:15 am.
— Rose Adams
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Wild chase
Cops cuffed a suspect after he allegedly
fl ed from cops in a stolen vehicle
near Third Avenue on Feb. 7.
Patrolling offi cers approached
the man who was sleeping in the stolen
car near 49th Street at around
7:19 am, before he allegedly sped off
— almost striking one patrolman.
The alleged suspect then crashed
the car, and authorities took him
to Lutheran Hospital and hit with
a long list of charges — including
reckless endangerment, resisting
arrest, and obstructing government
administration.
Kicking knave
Cops cuffed an alleged vandal for
vandalizing a Fourth Avenue bodega
on Feb. 8.
The bodega owner told police that
the suspect walked by the store near
29th Street at around 3:23 pm, kicking
its glass door until it cracked —
allegedly causing $2000 in damage.
Police later arrested the man on
criminal mischief charges.
Brick squad
Cops arrested a man for alleged
narcotics possession on First Avenue
on Feb. 4.
Patrolling offi cers told the man
to move his car that was blocking
a fi re hydrant near 48th Street at
around 2:51 pm, when they allegedly
noticed a brick of heroin in plain
view in the front seat.
Offi cers cuffed the man and
charged him with possession of a
controlled substance and acting in
a manner injurious to a child.
Belted!
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
assaulting a man in the Prospect
Avenue R train station on Feb.
10.
The victim told police that the
man spat at him in the Fourth Avenue
at around 1:20 am, before taking
a belt out of his bag and beating
the victim with it.
Cops arrived on the scene and
cuffed the man on charges of assault
with a weapon.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Broken windows
Rowdy knaves wreaked havoc in
a Park Place restaurant on Jan. 31.
An employee told police that they
told the ne’er-do-wells to leave the
restaurant near Flatbush Avenue
at 8:45 pm when they slammed the
glass door, causing it to shatter.
Steak out
A thief lifted some pricy meat
from a Flatbush Avenue grocer on
Feb. 2.
An employee told police that the
freebooter walked out of the store
near Fort Greene Place at around
1:15 pm without paying for three
steaks.
Three on one
Three worms beat down another
man in an Atlantic Avenue mall on
Feb. 3.
The victim told police that the
three brutes punched and beat him
mercilessly in the mall near Flatbush
Avenue at around 9:30 pm.
Plate pirate
A louse lifted a license plate from
a car in the parking lot of an Atlantic
Avenue mall on Feb. 4.
The victim told police that he
parked his car in the garage near
Fort Greene Place at around 2:50
pm, but the pirate unscrewed and
swiped the Georgia plates by the
time he returned at 3 pm.
— Ben Verde