78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Pedaling perp
A thief rode off with a man’s bike
he parked on Vanderbilt Avenue on
May 28.
The victim told police he left his
$738 Trek locked up between Prospect
and Park places at 8 am, and returned
that evening to fi nd his lock
snipped and bike stolen.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Bike bandit
Some crook pedaled away with a
man’s bike he secured on Fifth Avenue
on June 2.
The victim told police he left his
$650 Marin Nicasio chained up between
Bergen Street and St. Marks
Place at 7:45 pm, and returned a few
hours later to fi nd his ride poached.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Flat-tire fi end
Cops have given up the hunt for
the irate motorist who kicked a
man’s bicycle amid a Ninth Street
road rage incident on May 31.
The victim told police he was arguing
with the driver after he hit
the man’s 2017 Hyundai with his
bike near Third Avenue, when the
enraged motorist leapt from his
car and kicked a tire on his bicycle,
causing about $150 worth of damage
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o arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Hit and ride
A bicyclist hit a man’s car on
Union Street on June 3, before pedaling
away without owning up to
the collision.
The victim told police he was getting
out of his car between Sixth and
Seventh avenues at 9:52 pm, when
the suspect rammed his vehicle on
the driver’s side, before taking off.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Loot and scoot
A thief puttered away with a
woman’s motor scooter she parked
on Bergen Street on June 2.
The victim told police he left she
left her 2015 Vespa near Flatbush
Avenue to get her hair cut at 2:30
pm, and returned two hours later
to fi nd her low-powered motorbike
stolen.
No arrests have been made in the
case, which has been closed, cops
said.
Take a seat
Cops arrested a woman for alleged
attacking a fellow resident of
a Prospect Place women’s shelter on
May 31, throwing a chair at her.
The victim told police she was
trying to mediate a dispute between
the suspect and another woman
at the refuge between Carlton and
Vanderbilt avenues at 1:25 am, when
the suspect hurled a chair at her, before
punching her in the face.
Police cuffed the suspect that day
on a misdemeanor assault charge,
cops said.
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Rough upbringing
Cops are hunting a man for allegedly
beating his girlfriend inside a
33rd Street apartment — while she
held a baby — on May 28.
The victim told police that she
was arguing with her boyfriend
inside the residential building between
Third and Fourth avenues at
11:05 a.m., when he struck her with
a two-liter bottle of ginger ale, before
punching and kicking her.
Throughout her ordeal, the victim
clung to her fi ve-month-old
child, and when she attempted to
fl ee, the suspected alleged smashed
her hand in the door, cops said.
Road rage
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
punching a guy following a car accident
on E. Fifth Street on May 28.
The victim told police that he
was involved in a collision with the
suspect near Greenwood Avenue at
3:30 p.m., when the man hurled him
from his vehicle and punched him
in the face.
Cops cuffed the suspect on a felony
criminal mischief charge that
day, cops said.
Beatdown
A gang of 10 men attack a man
and his sister on 52nd Street on
June 2.
The victim told police the small
army of thugs descended on them
near Second Avenue at 5 a.m., kicking,
punching, and slashing them,
before hightailing it.
Rock head
Police arrested a 22-year-old
man for allegedly throwing a rock
at a woman’s car on 50th Street on
June 2.
The victim told police she was arguing
with the suspect near Third
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Avenue at 4:15 am, when he grabbed
the rock and chucked it at her car,
before fl eeing.
But the woman gave chase, and
when she caught him, the man he
grabbed her phone and chucked it to
the fl oor, before punching her in the
chest, cops said.
Offi cers arrested the man that
day, charging him with felony criminal
mischief, cops said.
Printer error
A thief looted a man’s ’96 Chevy
he parked on 25th Street on May 28.
The victim told police he left his
van near Fifth Avenue at 4:35 p.m.,
and returned the next morning to
fi nd his $500 printer and a $40 radio
stolen.
— Colin Mixson
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Goon squad!
A band of ruffi ans robbed a man
on DeKalb Avenue on May 27.
The victim was walking toward
Hudson Avenue when four goons
surrounded him and demanded he
give up his phone, bank cards, and
jewelry at 9:05 p.m., according to
cops.
The victim then escaped into an
eatery on the corner of Flatbush
and Atlantic avenues, but the louts
followed him and tried to get his
phone’s passcode, authorities said.
Tea time
A criminal robbed a Flatbush
Avenue Ext. convenience store on
May 29.
The nogoodnik tried to leave the
store near Fulton Street without
paying for a cup of tea at around
noon, when an employee locked the
door so that he couldn’t escape.
The ne’er-do-well then threatened
to harm the store manager
until he reopened the door and the
crook fl ed the scene, according to
police.
Group robbery
Three bruisers violently robbed
a man on S. Oxford Street on May
30.
The victim told cops that the
rogues snatched his cellphone and
then one of them put him in a headlock
and pushed him into a car between
DeKalb and Lafayette avenues
at 11:10 p.m.
The man fout back against his attackers,
but another one of the reprobates
told his accomplice “run his
pockets,” while also hitting him in
the head with an umbrella — twice,
according to police.
Delivery dirtbag
A wretch violently stole a deliveryman’s
e-bike on Lexington Avenue
on June 1.
The victim told cops that the
snake punched him in the face
while he was making a delivery
near Grand Avenue at 11 p.m.
The bandit then took his e-bike
and fl ed the scene toward Classon
Avenue, according to the police.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Punching rubber
A brute punched and tried to rob
a man at Prospect Street on June 1.
The bruiser punched the man
in the head and demanded cash at
Jay Street at 4:20 p.m., according
to police.
Snatcher
Police arrested a man they suspect
of beating and robbing a man
on the train at Schermerhorn Street
on June 1.
The victim told cops he boarded
a Queens-bound A-train from Jay
Street-MetroTech, but when the
train stopped at the Hoyt-Schermerhorhn
Streets station the suspect
grabbed his phone and dashed onto
the platform at 12:35 p.m.
The victim gave chase, yelling at
the suspect to give back the phone
before the man grabbed him by the
throat for a few seconds before releasing
him, according to cops.
Afterwards, he threw the phone
to the ground allowing the victim
to retreive it, and transit police
managed to cuff the suspect at the
station.
Snatcher II
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing a woman’s phone on a D
train near Atlantic Avenue on June
1.
The woman was riding on a Coney
Island-bound D-train and playing
a game on her phone when the
suspect grabbed it from her hand
near Fourth Avenue at 12:45 a.m.,
according to cops.
The two struggled and the victim
suffered a small scratch on her
knuckle, before the suspect got a
hold of the phone and fl ed the train
with the woman in pursuit shouting,
“He stole my phone,” which
caught the attention of transit police,
who chased after the suspect
and caught up with him and placed
him under arrest, according to
cops.