60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Subway scum
Three subway-riding bandits
robbed a sleeping straphanger at the
Neptune Avenue station on Feb. 27.
The victim told police that the
pirates dragged the victim off of
the train onto the platform near W.
Sixth Street at around 3:15 am, and
stole the man’s duffl e bag.
Burning rubber
A triad of bandits snagged the
four tires off of a Honda Accord
parked on W. 17th Street on Feb. 27.
Security camera footage captured
the three louts looting the
tires — worth $3,353 — of the car between
Bay 50th Street and Avenue Z
at around 3 am.
Off script
A freebooter swiped two pairs
of prescription glasses and an automatic
garage door opener from a
W. Second Street parking garage on
Feb. 27.
The victim told police that he
returned to his vehicle parked between
Shore Parkway and Avenue Z
at around 10 pm to fi nd his window
broken and $1,800 worth of property
missing.
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Container cons
Two suspects allegedly swiped
$97,900 worth of property from a
container truck parked on Lorraine
Street on March 3.
The victim told police that he returned
to the truck parked at the intersection
of Otsego Street around
9:17 am and allegedly found the various
household items were missing.
Police caught up with suspects
and slapped them with felony
charges, according to police reports.
Burglar Joe’s
A suspect allegedly snagged an
assortment of meats from a Court
Street grocery store on March 2.
The man entered the store at
the intersection of Atlantic Avenue
around 1:11 pm and allegedly tried
to make off with the ill-gotten goods
— but cops arrived in time and arrested
him in the store.
Upon his arrests, offi cers allegedly
found a crack pipe and crack
cocaine in the suspect’s possession,
according to police reports.
Gold digger
A freebooter snagged a gold
chain and cash from a Lorraine
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Street home on Feb. 29.
The victim told police that the
burglar broke into their home at the
intersection of Henry Street sometime
before 11 am and made off with
the $200 necklace, which had been
stored in a drawer.
— Jessica Parks
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Grapes of wrath
Some slimeball assaulted a
woman on 21st Street on March 1.
The victim told police that the
scoundrel got mad at her for eating
grapes in her apartment near
Seventh Avenue at around 4:20 pm,
causing him to punch her in the eye
and hit her with a water bottle.
Carjacker
Cops arrested a suspect for allegedly
trying to hijack a car on 60th
Street on Feb. 28.
A witness told police that the
man allegedly rifl ed through the
car suspiciously near Seventh Avenue
at 5:15 pm.
Cops arrived on the scene and
cuffed the guy for unauthorized use
of a motor vehicle, according to police
reports.
Graffi ti mayhem
Two scoundrels vandalized a
41st Street house on Feb. 24.
The owner of the house told police
that the two bozos spray painted her
home near Third Avenue at around
12:15 am, causing $6,000 in damage.
Flower power
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
trying to assault a woman at a 39th
Street hotel on March 1.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly threw a fl ower pot
at her in the lobby of the hotel near
Fifth Avenue at around 11:48 am.
Cops arrived and arrested the
suspect for assault, according to police
reports.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Beatdown
Three punks jumped a 14-yearold
girl on Fifth Avenue on Feb. 26.
The victim told police that the
three girls kicked and punched her
near Fifth Street at 4 pm, resulting
in multiple cuts and bruises on the
victim’s body.
Art Critic
Two rapscallions harassed a girl
in a Fifth Avenue park on Feb. 24.
The victim told police that the
two girls stole her artwork and
threw it in the trash in the park
near Third Street at 4:25 pm, before
slapping her.
Spitting image
A suspect allegedly assaulted a
police offi cer in a Sixth Avenue police
station on Feb. 25.
The offi cer claims that the man
spat on him as he walked past the
suspect, who was in police custody
for an unrelated, offence inside the
station near Dean Street at around
11:47 pm.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Nasty nana
A brute attacked her granddaughter
with a broomstick and
strangled her on Fleet Walk on Feb.
24.
The victim told police that the
villain and her boyfriend repeatedly
smacked her in the head with
a broomstick and choked her, and
later put her in a headlock between
Prince and Navy streets at 5 pm.
First responders took the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for her injuries,
cops said.
Choked!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
attempting to assault another
man at a Prince Street shelter on
Feb. 26.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly grabbed the victim’s
neck at Tillary Street at 1:15
am, leaving him with cuts and red
marks.
Cops arrested the man just after
2 am and slapped him with felony
assault charges.
Zoomed off!
A bandit hijacked a cyclist’s ebike
on Adelphi Street on Feb. 27.
The victim told police that he
was about to lock his bike when the
wretch pushed him to the ground between
Dekalb and Lafayette avenues
at 8:40 pm, before speeding off on the
battery-powered two-wheeler.
Storage pirate
A sneaky marauder looted more
than $10,000 worth of valuables from
a storage unit on Grand Avenue between
Feb. 1 and March 1.
The victim told police that the
sneak cut the lock on the victim’s
storage unit near Park Avenue, before
making off with several pairs
of sneakers, a laptop, cameras, and
jewelry and replaced the lock.
Restaurant raid
Some fi lcher raided a Fulton
Street restaurant on Feb. 27.
The victim told police that the
criminal hurled a wooden chair
through the glass front door and
ransacked the eatery near S. Elliot
Place at around 3 am, before fl eeing
the scene.
88TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–BOERUM
HILL–DOWNTOWN
Schooled
A pair of delinquents assaulted
two school safety agents at George
Westinghouse High School on Tillary
Street on Feb. 24.
The victims told police that they
were trying to escort the punks off
the school property at Bridge Street
at 11 am when the bruisers started
punching the guards.
First responders took one of the
victims to Brooklyn Hospital for
treatment of facial lacerations and
a swollen knee, according to police
reports.
Dental dirtbags
Police arrested two men for allegedly
assaulting a victim at a
Schermerhorn Street courthouse
on Feb. 24.
The victim told police that the
suspects allegedly punched him in
the face near Smith Street at 11:30
pm, knocking out his tooth.
Police arrested the two men at
the building 15 minutes later, and
slapped them with felony assault
charges, according to police.
Close call!
A woman narrowly escaped a
pair of carjackers on Adams Street
on Feb. 25.
The victim told police that she
was sleeping in her parked car near
Sands Street at 9 pm when one of the
scumbags smashed her passenger
side window while the other tried to
get into the car.
The woman managed to speed off
and escape before the villains could
get in, according to police reports.
— Kevin Duggan