60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Golden heist
Two gun-wielding prowlers
broke into a Stillwell Avenue apartment
and stole cash on April 29.
The victim told police the savages
brandished a golden gun, and
proceeded to cut him with a knife inside
his residence between Neptune
and Mermaid Avenues at around
1:35 pm, and stole $15,000.
Shut eye
A purloiner snagged a man’s
camera equipment right under his
nose on the Riegelmann Boardwalk
West on April 28.
The victim told police that he
was sitting with his eyes closed on a
bench near W. 10th Street when the
bike-riding pirate grabbed the bag
and peddled off.
Mail Carrier
A sneak thief swiped an envelope
with more than $2,000 from a
woman’s jacket pocket at a Brighton
Beach Avenue store on May 1.
The victim told police that while
shopping at the market on the corner
of Coney Island Avenue at
around 11 am, when the thief stole
her cash undetected.
— Jessica Parks
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Pill fi end
Police arrested a suspect for allegedly
slashing a man and stealing
his pills on Washington Avenue on
April 27.
The victim told police that the
suspect asked for pills, but when he
refused, the suspect allegedly drew
a kitchen knife and cut him in the
back of the head between Fulton
Street and Gates Avenue at 9:50 am,
before snatching three bottles of
Adderall and seizure medicine and
handing them to a female accomplice.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Methodist Hospital for treatment,
and police picked up the suspect
around 10 am on felony robbery
charges, but couldn’t fi nd the
woman or the drugs.
Take out
A looter ransacked a Fulton
Street restaurant on the night of
April 26.
An employee told police that the
raider smashed a window and broke
paneling of the eatery near Vanderbilt
Avenue, before bagging the cash
register and fl eeing the scene.
8 COURIER LIFE, MAY 8-14, 2020
Man cuffed for stealing
stimulus checks
Package prowler
Police arrested a man for allegedly
trying to steal a bunch of packages
from a Lafayette Avenue apartment
building on April 30.
A witness told police that the
suspect allegedly broke into the
building at Carlton Avenue using
a screwdriver just after 2 pm and
waltzed out with his loot.
Cops stopped the man at the intersection
of Lafayette Avenue and
Cumberland Street and slapped
him with burglary charges.
Mission Possible
A bandit broke into a Fulton
Street deli through the ceiling and
looted cash and cigarettes in the
early hours of April 30.
A witness told police that the burglar
got into the building at Vanderbilt
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Avenue through the back door,
before going to an apartment above
and breaking in through the store’s
ceiling — where he dismantled the
ATM and stole cash and cigarettes.
Charges that stick!
Police caught a man for allegedly
stealing a package of glue from
a Washington Avenue apartment
building on May 3.
The superintendent of the building
near Dekalb Avenue told the police
that the suspect allegedly went
through the mail boxes and looked
through packages around 1:30 am,
before grabbing some loot and walking
away.
Police stopped the man and found
the boxes containing superglue at a
nearby garbage can, and charged
him with burglary on the scene.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Cat burglar
A thief stole $192 worth of cat
products and coffee from a Carroll
Street house sometime between
May 2 and May 5.
The victim told police that the
burglar nabbed the package with
the goods from the downstairs hallway
of the two-story house between
Henry and Hicks streets.
Parent trap
A woman punched the mother
of her child’s friend in the face on
Henry Street on May 2.
The victim told police that she
got into an argument with the
mother between Bush Street and
Centre Mall at around 12:30 before
the woman punched her in the face
and continued hitting her after she
fell to the fl oor.
Scooter looter
A bandit rode off on a $6,000 bike
on Sullivan Street on May 4.
The victim told police that the
looter took his Honda dirt bike,
which had been secured to a railing
with a heavy chain link between Van
Brunt and Richards streets sometime
between 4:36 am and 5:14 am.
62TH PRECINCT
BENSONHURST-BATH BEACH
Carjacked
A bandit stole wheels and tires
off a car on 21st Avenue on May 1.
The victim told police that the
thief nabbed the goods off his car
parked near 21st Drive.
Bodega burglar
A pirate stole cash from an Avenue
U food store on May 2.
An employee told police that the
looter broke into the store near W.
Eighth streets at around 2 am and
nab the cash from the cash register
before running away.
Gone fi shin’
A burglar snagged four rims and
two fi shing poles from a car on 77th
Street on April 25.
The victim told police that the
thief took the items from his car
parked between 20th and 21st avenues
at around 2 pm.
Checked out
A good-for-nothing stole two
checks from a 65th Street doctor offi
ce on April 16.
The victim told police that the
burglar nabbed the checks valued
together at $2050 from the offi ce
near Dahill Road.
— Rose Adams
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A man was arrested for allegedly
stealing multiple stimulus checks
and other mail in Sunset Park,
federal prosecutors announced on
April 29.
Feng Chen, 31, was arraigned
on April 29 on charges of theft of
mail, including credit cards, multiple
checks and nine Economic Impact
Payments (“EIP”), otherwise
known as “stimulus payments.”
If convicted, Chen faces up to fi ve
years in prison.
According to court documents,
on the morning of April 28, two
NYPD offi cers allegedly saw Chen
looking inside of a collection bin
outside of a closed medical offi ce
in Sunset Park. Afterward, the offi
cers allegedly saw Chen walk to a
nearby residential building and examine
mail left at the door.
Chen was then allegedly spotted
leaving the building carrying
mail. When Chen saw the offi cers,
he tossed the mail on the sidewalk,
authorities said.
According to the criminal complaint,
when Chen told the offi cers
his name and birthdate, it was discovered
that he had an open bench
warrant in New York County for a
criminal case involving identity
theft.
He was subsequently placed under
arrest.
According to court documents,
police soon noticed that Chen had
a bulge in his jacket pocket. The offi
cers searched Chen and allegedly
found checks, EIPs totaling more
than $12,000, credit cards, opened
envelopes and letters bearing the
names of various individuals and
mail addresses.