60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Sunglass hut
A shady bandit swiped two pairs
of designer sunglasses and a wallet
from a vehicle parked in a Bay 43rd
Street driveway on April 25.
The victim told police that he
was alerted to the break into his
car between Harway and Cropsey
avenues when he received a notifi -
cation to his phone at around 8 pm
that chargers had been made to his
card.
Noisy ride
A car breaker snagged a catalytic
converter from a car parked on
Shore Parkway on April 21.
The victim told police that he
left his car between Bay 48th and
Bay 49th streets around 11 am, and
when he was driving later noticed it
sounded funny — and later discovered
the missing piece.
Car pirate
Louts stole more than $2,000 in
property from a car parked on Bay
49th Street on April 18.
The victim told police that he returned
to his vehicle parked at the
intersection of Cropsey Avenue at
around 8 pm to fi nd his passenger
side window broken and his electronics,
laptop and jewelry missing.
— Jessica Parks
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREEN-CLINTON HILL
Bike bandit
Police arrested a man for allegedly
taking another guy’s bike and
attacking him with it on Washington
Avenue on April 20.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly punched him
in the face and grabbed his twowheeler
at Fulton Street at 4:45 am
and swung it at him.
Cops caught up with the guy at
the scene and slapped him with felony
robbery charges, according to
authorities.
Body-slam!
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
attacking his girlfriend and robbing
her on Greene Avenue on April 23.
The victim told police that the
defendant allegedly took her cellphone
and handbag between Grand
and Classon avenues around midnight,
before strangling her and
body-slamming her to the ground.
Cops got to the scene 10 minutes
later and the suspect took off, but
the Boys in Blue were able to stop
him and serve him with felony robbery
charges, according to the authorities.
8 COURIER LIFE, MAY 1-7, 2020
Bus driver fatally strikes
bicyclist in Flatbush
The intersection where a bus driver hit and killed a 67-year-old biker on April 28.
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Teen trouble
Police arrested two youths they
suspect held up a man on Adelphi
Street on April 24.
The victim told police that the
two suspects and another youngster
blocked his path between Dekalb
and Lafayette avenues just before 8
pm, before allegedly hitting him in
the mouth and snatching his phone
from his hand.
Cops stopped two of the boys,
aged 14 and 15, at the scene 15 minutes
later for felony robbery charges,
according to police.
Battle of the blades
Police apprehended a man and
a woman who allegedly got into a
blade battle at her Hanson Place
apartment.
The victim told police that the
suspect accused him of stealing
her money at S. Elliot Place at 5:10
pm, and then allegedly grabbed a
knife and stabbed him twice in the
left shoulder blade and armpit, before
he grabbed his own blade and
stabbed her in the back.
Police got to the scene half an
hour later and arrested both for felony
assault charges.
Piped!
Two rogues attacked a man with
a metal pipe on Fulton Street on the
morning of April 21.
The brutes attacked the man
with the bar, severely injuring his
head and hands at Waverly Avenue
at 4 am.
Ash bash
Police arrested a woman they
suspect attacked a 65-year-old man
with an ashtray on Myrtle Avenue
on April 26.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly scratched him
and hit him with the smoking paraphernalia
at Vanderbilt Avenue just
before 6 pm, before macing him.
Cops caught up with the woman
20 minutes later and arrested her on
felony assault charges.
Booze bandit
Some nogoodnik looted a bunch
of hooch from a Rockwell Place bar
at the crack of dawn on April 21.
Witnesses told police that the
raider pocketed four different types
of hard liquor from the tavern between
Fulton Street and Dekalb Avenue
just after 6 am, including mezcal
and whiskey.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Cart crook
A thief stole nine shopping carts
from a Mill Street supermarket on
April 27.
An employee told police that the
bandit snagged the carts, worth
$900 in total, from outside the supermarket
between Hicks and Henry
streets at 1:28 pm.
Plate pilferer
A burglar nabbed a license plate
from a car parked on Clinton Street
on April 21.
The victim told police that the
pilferer stole the South Carolina
plate from her blue Nissan parked
near Lorraine Street sometime between
3 pm and 4:20 pm.
Cell hell
A man took a woman’s cellphone
from a Mill Street apartment on
April 8 and refused to return it.
The victim told police that her
son’s friend slept over at her apartment
between Columbia and Hicks
streets on April 7, and when the
friend left at 8 am on April 8, she realized
her phone was missing. She
contacted the friend who admitted
he had her phone and said he would
return it, but weeks later she said
that he still has not.
Food fi end
Police cuffed a woman for allegedly
stealing $33 worth of food
from a Court Street supermarket on
April 21.
An employee told police that the
suspect placed several food items in
her bag before trying to leave the
store on the corner of Atlantic Avenue
at 7 pm.
Police arrested the defendant at
7:20 pm and charged her with petty
larceny, according to authorities.
— Rose Adams
BY BEN VERDE
An MTA bus driver struck and
killed a 67-year-old bicyclist in
Flatbush on April 28, according to
police.
Tadeusz Czajkowski was riding
northbound on Rogers Avenue at
around 4:30 pm when he attempted
to make a right turn onto Clarendon
Road and a bus stuck him at
the intersection, according to authorities.
A police spokesperson claimed
Czajkowski had veered into the
bus’ path and sideswiped it just
before the crash that threw him to
the pavement.
First responders rushed
Czajkowski to nearby Kings
County Hospital, where doctors
later pronounced him dead, according
to police reports.
The bus operator stayed at the
scene, and authorities took the
47-year-old to a hospital for psychological
evaluation due to trauma,
MTA spokesman Tim Minton
said. No charges have been fi led,
according to cops.
“This appears to be a tragic incident
for all involved and we are
cooperating fully with the NYPD
investigation,” Minton said in a
statement.