61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Trouble back home
Looters ransacked a Shore Parkway
home on March 30.
The victim told police that the
freebooters broke in through the
front door of the residence at the intersection
of Ford Street at around
8:40 pm and stole multiple belongings,
before fl eeing in a black vehicle.
Metro swipe
A slimeball swiped a woman’s
wallet as she exited an Avenue Z
street subway station on March 30.
The victim told police the robber
snagged the money-holder and fl ed
from the station at the intersection
of E. 15th street around 6:55 pm towards
Avenue Y.
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Gun-wielding goons
Two housebreakers threatened
a woman with a fi rearm and stole
from her W. 28th Street apartment
on March 29.
The victim told police she was
bringing the trash into the hallway
of her apartment building between
Mermaid and Surf avenues at
around 10 pm when she encountered
the home invaders, who forced their
way into the home at gunpoint, and
stole electronics and other items,
before fl eeing.
Hell-evator
Two pillagers brutally robbed a
woman in the elevator of a W. Eighth
Street building on March 30.
The victim told police that the
one of the bandits smacked her
phone on the ground and held her in
a headlock inside the public housing
complex between Avenue V and
Avenue X at around 11:30 am, while
the other punched and kicked her —
before stealing a bag of chips, some
cash, and cigarettes.
Train shopper
A thief snagged AirPods and a
designer bag from a man waiting
for a train at Neptune Avenue station
on April 1.
The victim told police that the
bandit snagged the ill-gotten goods
while he was distracted and then
ran out of the subway station at the
intersection of W. Sixth Street at
around 6 pm, before fl eeing into the
parking lot of a nearby apartment
complex.
— Jessica Parks
COURIER L 8 IFE, APRIL 10-16, 2020
Four fi rst responders injured
in Brownsville crash
Four fi rst resonders were injured in the crash. Photo by Todd Maisel
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREEN-CLINTON HILL
Chemical weapon
Police arrested a woman for allegedly
attacking a man with bleach
at her Clinton Avenue home on
March 31.
The victim told police that the
defendant allegedly came into his
room between Gates Avenue and
Fulton Street at 2 pm and threw the
chemical on his face — causing a
burning swelling — before splashing
it on his bed, walls, and microwave.
Cops arrived at the scene and arrested
the woman on felony assault
charges.
Credit scammer
Some huckster stole $650 from
a man by opening up a fraudulent
credit account in his name at N. Elliott
Walk on April 3.
The victim told police that the
scammer used his personal information
to create the credit account
and stole the money of the man near
St. Edwards Street at 4:30 pm.
Elder swindler
A scumbag scammed an elderly
lady out of $5,000 at Lafayette Avenue
on April 3.
The victim told police that the
charlatan called her pretending to
be her grandson and told her to withdraw
the money and hand it over to
a man who came to pick it up at her
home between St. James Place and
Classon Avenue at 1 pm.
The woman later spoke to her
actual grandson and found out the
scheme was a scam.
Bag bandit
A thief snatched a woman’s backpack
and belongings from her car
on Washington Avenue on April 4.
The victim told police that the
nogoodnik opened her unlocked car
between Willoughby and Myrtle avenues
at noon, and grabbed the bag
before hightailing it.
Car buster
A carjacker stole a man’s car
parked at Park Avenue on the night
of March 29.
The victim told police that he left
his car near Navy Street around 7
pm and when he came back the next
morning at 6:30 am, he found the car
to be gone, with some broken glass
on the ground of where he’d left it.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Beer bust
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing beer from a Smith Street
pharmacy on April 4.
An employee told police that
the suspect entered the pharmacy
near President Street at 1:50 am and
nabbed the $12 six-pack before leaving
the store without paying.
Paint punks
Police arrested two men for allegedly
spray painting a fence on
Fourth Place on April 2.
Cops say the two defendants were
spray painting a tag on city property
near Smith Street at 2:35 am.
Phone fraud
A hoaxer scammed an 82-yearold
man out of $5,000 on Amity
Street on April 6.
The victim told police that the
scammer called him saying that
his grandson had been arrested
and needed money to post bail, so
the victim handed the money to the
con-artist’s co-conspirator between
Court and Clinton Street at 12:30 pm
before realizing that he had been
conned.
Cold-hearted
A bandit stole $95 worth of cold
medicine from a Smith Street pharmacy
on April 2.
An employee told police that the
burglar nabbed $95 worth of children’s
Tylenol and Robitussin from
the store on the corner of Warren
Street at 2:15 pm before leaving the
store and running northbound on
Smith Street.
— Rose Adams
BY TODD MAISEL
Two police offi cers and two
EMS paramedics were hurt Sunday
afternoon when their emergency
vehicles collided while racing
to 911 calls in Brownsville,
Brooklyn.
One of the EMS workers is
listed in serious condition at
Kings County Hospital; the others
involved in the crash suffered
injuries that were not considered
life-threatening, law enforcement
sources said.
With so many members of both
the Police and Fire Departments
out on sick leave during the coronavirus
pandemic, neither could
afford to have anyone out with injuries,
offi cials say.
The crash occurred at about
2:15 p.m. when a police vehicle
from Transit District 33 was responding
to a 911 call of a person
armed with a fi rearm and were
traveling east on Fulton Street.
The ambulance was rushing to a
cardiac arrest traveling north on
Rockaway Avenue.
As the ambulance crossed the
nearly empty intersection, authorities
said, their vehicle was struck
broad-side by the police SUV.
The two offi cers in the police
vehicle had to exit quickly as the
front of the SUV caught fi re and
threatened to set both vehicles
afl ame. Firefi ghters were quickly
on the scene to control the fi re, offi
cials said.