61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Lazy looter
A wanna-be burglar attempted
to rob a W. Ninth Street home on
March 5.
Security camera footage shows
the knave trying to open the victim’s
car and enter the backyard shed
near the corner Lake Place around
2 pm, before fl eeing after fi nding the
car and the shed locked.
Police conducted a search but
found no trace of the would-be burglar.
Bike bandit
A pilferer snagged a bicycle from
an E. 29th Street home on March 2.
The victim told police that the
baddie entered the unlocked garage
near Avenue S around 3 pm, and
stole the $2,500 two-wheeler.
Crafty crook
A bandit stole construction
equipment from a W. First Street
home on March 7.
The victim told police she returned
to her house at the corner
of Avenue X around 8:30 am to fi nd
$5,100 worth of power tools missing.
— Amalia Arms
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Breaking news
A pilferer swiped 30 newspapers
from a Court Street deli on March
9.
An employee told police that the
bandit snagged $80 worth of New
York Times and Daily News copies
from the unlocked delivery door at
the store between Dean and Bergen
streets at 5:30 am.
Meathead
A thief stole $60 worth of meat
from a Court Street grocery store
on March 9.
An employee told police that the
burglar stuffed four packs of meat
into a duffl e bag before leaving the
store on the corner of Atlantic Avenue
at 10:10 pm.
Bike bandit
A looter nabbed a $950 bike from
a Verona Street house sometime between
March 1 and March 5.
The victim told police that the pirate
took the bike from his unlocked
vestibule between Dwight and Richards
street.
— Rose Adams
COURIER L 8 IFE, MARCH 13-19, 2020
Motorist fatally strikes
66-year-old man
Police responded to the fatal crash in southern Brooklyn. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Shoulder shot
A gunman shot a man during a
Fifth Avenue robbery on March 9.
The victim told police that two
thieves brandished a fi rearm and
demanded money near 52nd Street
at noon, and then shot him in the
shoulder and fl ed.
Overdrawn
Some heartless scammer swindled
$18,445 from a elderly woman’s
life savings at a 53rd Street bank on
March 8.
The victim told police that recived
a notice from her bank about a
substantial withdrawl, and she discovered
that the sneak drained her
savings account from the bank near
Eighth Avenue at around noon.
Mystery threats
A hoaxer extorted a man on Fifth
Avenue on March 2.
The victim told police that he received
messages at his home near
36th Street at around 5 pm saying
someone would kill his family if he
didn’t wire the scammers $800 —
which he did.
Ripped off
Some worm robbed a delivery
guy on Seventh Avenue on March 3.
The victim told police that he
was making deliveries to a bodega
near 40th Street at around 2:30 pm,
when the thief broke into his unlocked
van and stole $1,500 from the
glove department.
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Grocery goon
A shoplifter made off with a load
of ill-gotten groceries from a Third
Street Whole Foods on March 7.
A store employee told police that
the thief lifted $227 worth of food
from the grocer near Third Avenue
— including coconut water, food
from the hot bar, sushi rolls, and
smoked salmon.
Carjacked
A freebooter robbed a car on
Sterling Place on March 4.
The victim told police that the
pirate jacked $300 cash and a pair
of headphones from her car parked
near Sixth Avenue sometime between
3:30 pm and 5 pm.
Bye-cycle
Some villain stole a bike that was
left on Fifth Avenue.
The victim told police that he
locked his ride to a pole near Third
Street, but the jerk stole it before he
returned at around 5 am.
Booted
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing boots from a Flatbush
Avenue shopping mall on March 7.
An employee told police that the
suspect allegedly tried on the $150
pair of kicks in the mall near Atlantic
Avenue at around 2:40 pm, before
putting his old shoes in the box and
attempting to fl ee, but store employees
stopped him.
Authorities arrived on the scene
cuffed the 54-year-old suspect on petit
larceny charges.
McLovin It
A gunman looted a Fifth Avenue
McDonalds on March 8.
Employees told police that the
lout displayed a handgun inside the
store near Ninth Street at 8:50 pm,
before grabbing $2,700 and running
off.
— Ben Verde
BY JESSICA PARKS
A motorist struck and killed a
man walking his dog on Fourth
Avenue in southern Brooklyn on
March 5.
Frank Delcovenaere, 66, was
crossing 101st Street at around 7
pm when a 19-year-old motorist
struck him near the intersection
of Fourth Avenue.
First responders rushed to
the location and pronounced Delcovenaere
dead on the scene. The
driver remained at the scene,
and police have not made any arrests.
The canine survived the crash
but examined for possible injuries
at an area animal hospital,
according to police.
Delcovenaere is the 24th pedestrian
killed in a car crash
within the city’s borders since
the onset of this year.
In a tweet, State Senator Andrew
Gounardes suggested that
the driver was speeding and
called for the passage of street
safety legislation he introduced
last week.
“He was killed by a speeding
driver,” Gounardes wrote.
“When are we going to WAKE
UP, SLOW DOWN, and realize
that we are literally killing each
other to save a few minutes?”
A friend close to the family described
Delcovenaere as the “epitome
of kindness and intelligence”
and someone in the neighborhood
that everyone recognized.
“He was ever-gracious and
warm. He cared about the people
that he came into contact with
and knew everyone’s name,” the
family friend said.