84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
He’s been Hoyt!
A group of goons beat up a guy at
the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station
on Feb. 15.
The victim told police that three
brutes jumped him unprovoked
while waiting for the A-train at 9:25
am, kicking him while he lay on the
ground.
Paramedics brought the man to
Methodist Hospital for treatment
of a cut on his hands and a bruised
face, according to police reports.
Teen trouble
Cops cuffed four teenage boys for
allegedly attempting to rob a delivery
cyclist on Henry Street on Feb.
16.
The victim told police that the
suspects surrounded him between
Remsen and Joralemon streets just
before 7:30 pm, allegedly intimidating
him while trying to steal his belongings.
Cops caught up with the youngsters,
who were all between 16 and
18 years old, and arrested them on
felony robbery charges, according
to police reports.
Money machine
Two thieves looted a Willoughby
Street diner on the night of Feb. 15.
The victim told police that the
bandits busted the glass door of the
eatery near Bridge Street at 4:20 am
and carried out the automated teller
machine.
Overnight raid
A raider ransacked a Smith
Street commercial building on the
night of Feb. 16.
The victims told police that the
invader bagged a bunch of credit
and debit cards along with a construction
site measuring device at
Livingston Street between 7:30 pm
and 8 am the next day, stealing the
items valued at a total of almost
$3,500.
Nordstrom racket!
Police arrested a Fulton Mall department
store worker for allegedly
stealing more than $2,000 from her
employer on Feb. 16.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly clocked bogus returns
for merchandise at the store
near Bridge Street at 4:20 pm and
used the funds for gift cards totaling
$2,028.
Cops cuffed the 21-year-old on felony
grand larceny charges on Feb.
20 at the store, according to police.
Take out!
Bike bandits nabbed a deliveryman’s
two-wheeler on Columbia
Place on Feb. 19.
COURIER L 8 IFE, FEB. 26-MAR. 4, 2021
DA slaps alleged
Morgan Ave attacker
with hate crime charges
The victim told police that he
left his bicycle to deliver food between
State Street and Bridge Park
Drive at 6:40 pm but when he came
back fi ve minutes later, the bike was
gone.
A bystander told the victim that
a car drove by and took the bike, according
to police.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Out for robbery
A group of pilferers held up a delivery
driver on Gates Avenue on
Feb. 15.
The victim told police that the
bandits threatened him with a knife
at Irving Place at 11:40 am, before
taking his phone and $43 in cash
and hightailing it towards Gates
Avenue.
Right for the jugular!
A pair of villains robbed a guy at
knifepoint on Washington Avenue
on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that the
two ne’er-do-wells came from behind
and held a blade to his throat
while he was unlocking his bike
between Greene and Lafayette avenues,
before taking his phone and
wallet and running off.
Lobby loot
Marauders stole a bunch of packages
and apartment keys at a Grand
Avenue building on Feb. 12.
A security guard told police that
he saw the purloiners on security
camera footage forcing their way
into the lobby of the building between
Park and Myrtle avenues just
after 6 am, before taking several
packages and a lock box with spare
keys.
Quick swipe!
Some sneak thief stole a deliveryman’s
e-bike on Dekalb Avenue
on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that he
went into a bodega to drop off food at
St Felix Street at 9:30 am, but when
he came out, his $2,000 battery-powered
two-wheeler was gone.
Carjackers bust
Police arrested two men for allegedly
stealing a car on Adelphi
Street on Feb. 15.
The victim told police that he left
his car running with the keys in the
ignition between Myrtle and Park
avenues at 4:35 pm, and when he
came back 20 minutes later, it was
gone.
Police on patrol found the wayward
sedan at Fleet Walk near
Prince Street on Feb. 21 at 2:35 am,
and arrested the two men in it for
felony grand larceny, according to
police reports.
— Kevin Duggan
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Poppin’ off
A gunman shot a woman as she
was crossing Neptune Avenue on
Feb. 21.
The victim told police that she
heard a pop when crossing the
street near W. 33rd Street at around
1:09 am, and quickly realized she
had been shot in the leg.
Paramedics rushed the victim to
Lutheran Hospital for treatment of
non-fatal injuries, cops said.
Five Guys
Five brutes attacked and slashed
a man on Surf Avenue on Feb. 19.
The victim told police that he got
into an argument with the baddies
at the intersection of W. 30th Street
at around 2:50 am, when the bruisers
took out a knife and slashed the
back of his head.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Lutheran Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports.
Ghosted
A savage slashed a man in the
head and hand in a Neptune Avenue
parking lot on Feb. 20.
The victim told police that the
slasher attacked him unprovoked
near W. 33rd Street at around 1 am,
before running off without taking
his property.
—Jessica Parks
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
An East Williamsburg man
faces 25 years to life in prison for allegedly
assaulting seven women, including
fi ve at the Morgan Avenue
L train station, Brooklyn District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced
on Feb 24..
Kings County’s top prosecutor
charged 29-year-old Khari Covington
with a 52-count indictment including
a list of felony hate crimes
against the victims he allegedly
targeted for being light-skinned
women.
The defendant’s charges include
burglary, strangulation, assault,
and menacing, all of which were
bumped up as hate crimes, according
to the DA’s offi ce.
Covington started his alleged
six-month spree by assaulting a
woman on Morgan Avenue near
Rock Street on Aug. 5, before ambushing
fi ve different victims at the
nearby Morgan Avenue L-train station
between Nov. 17 and Jan. 2.
On Jan. 4 he also allegedly attacked
a woman behind the counter
of a smoke shop on nearby Wilson
Avenue at the corner of Noll Street,
an incident which was caught on
the store’s surveillance camera.
One of the victims, Bianca Fortis,
posted a warning on social media
bringing more attention to the
pattern of assaults at the North
Brooklyn underground station after
her attacker pummeled her from
behind in late December.
Fortis and other victims criticized
the Police Department for
not posting warnings at the station
sooner and failing to recognize a
pattern of assault by Covington,
who has a history of violence dating
back seven years.
Covington, who lives at a nearby
supportive housing center for the
formerly homeless, was previously
locked up for robbing a deliveryman
in 2013 and a woman in 2015, but
was released on parole last April.
He was again arrested in September
for an alleged misdemeanor
assault of hitting his ex-girlfriend
in the face, but offi cials did not jail
him for violating parole because
witnesses were not available for a
required hearing, according to the
Times report.
His bail was set at $150,000 and
he remains detained at Rikers Island
until his next court date on
April 13, according to Gonzalez’s
spokesman Oren Yaniv.