72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Beer bottle baddie
A brute assaulted a man with a
beer bottle on 4th Avenue on June
5.
The baddie approached the victim
at a block party near the intersection
of 61st Street at around 10
p.m., and asked for a beer. The victim
refused, causing the perp to
grab an empty bottle and smash it
over the victim’s head, cops said.
First responders took the victim,
who suffered cuts and bruising
to his head, to a nearby hospital for
treatment, according to police reports.
Motorbike bandit
A bandit stole a motorcycle that
was parked overnight on 5th Avenue
on June 6.
The perp made off with the bike,
which was left between 60th and
61st streets, sometime between midnight
and 7 a.m., cops said.
Knifed
Cops arrested a knife-wielding
man on 6th Avenue on June 8.
The baddie was seen littering
near the intersection of 44th Street
and cops approached him for questioning.
Shortly after, police discovered
a knife greater than four
inches in his pocket, causing them
to slap him with cuffs at approximately
5 p.m., police said.
Subway brute
A pilfer brutally robbed a woman
at a 4th Avenue subway station on
June 8.
The punk approached the woman
from behind while she was waiting
for the train at the station near the
intersection of 45th Street. The suspect
then grabbed the woman by her
neck, before snatching her necklace
and running off, cops said.
Identity theft
A con artist used a 40th Street
woman’s stolen identity to purchase
a cell phone late last year, cops
said.
The victim, who lives between
5th and 6th avenues, received a notifi
cation from her bank in the mail
on June 4 that her credit score had
dropped because she had opened
a new cell phone plan. The victim
knew nothing of the new cell phone
plan, which included a brand new
cellular device, cops said.
— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Masked malcontent
Three delinquents robbed a man
on Gates Avenue on June 5, according
to authorities.
The victim was walking toward
Franklin Avenue when the three
teens, one of whom was donning a
mask, walked up to him and surrounded
him near Classon Avenue
just before 10 p.m., cops said.
The masked bandit threatened
the guy with a pair of scissors and
told him to give up his laptop, Kindle
and calculator, before the rogues
fl ed toward Grand Avenue, police
said.
Narrow escape
Two brutes attacked a cyclist on
Fulton Street on June 8, cops said.
The pedaler told cops he was riding
at the intersection Fulton Street
and Irving Place around 8:50 p.m.
when two reprobates charged at
him, with one punching him in the
face while the other tried to push
him off of his two-wheeler. The victim
managed to speed away from
the baddies.
Bike beaters
A group of goons jumped a cyclist
on Classon Avenue on June 9.
The victim was waiting for the
traffi c light on his e-bike at Fulton
Street at 6 p.m. when the four baddies
came for him, with one punching
him in the face repeatedly while
trying to take his bicycle, according
to the authorities.
The lout then managed to nab
the man’s cellphone before he and
his partners in crime escaped to
nearby Crisps Attucks Playground,
cops said.
Brutal chase
Three nogoodniks beat a teen
with a cane at Atlantic Avenue on
June 4.
The victim told cops that the villains
singled him out at S. Oxford
Park and chased him to Atlantic Avenue
near Sixth Avenue, where they
jumped him and smashed him in
the knee with the metal bar, around
7:15 p.m.
Backfi red!
Cops collared a man who they
suspect of reversing his car into a
guy on S. Portland Avenue on June
6.
The suspect and the man were
having a spat about parking at the
corner of Fulton Street at 4:30 p.m.
when the driver put his vehicle into
reserve and rammed the man, hurting
his leg, cops said.
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Police arrested the man at the
scene half an hour later and slapped
him with felony assault charges, according
to the authorities.
Bad communication
Police arrested a woman they
suspect of throwing her cell phone
at her boyfriend on Monument Walk
on June 8.
The victim told authorities he
was having an argument with his
fl ame near Park Avenue around 2
a.m. when she threw her phone at
him, which cut his nose.
Cops took the woman in on felony
assault charges, they said.
CitiBike swipe
A thief stole a man’s CitiBike on
Myrtle Avenue on June 4.
The rider told police he left the
rented bike on the sidewalk around
9:30 p.m. while going into a store at
the corner of Navy Street when the
lout nabbed it and fl ed toward Fort
Greene Park.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Jaws
Police arrested a woman for biting
a man while trying to steal
makeup from a Joralemon Street department
store on June 7, cops said.
The suspect allegedly tried to
steal cosmetics from the store near
Court Street and when the victim
stopped her, she allegedly sunk her
teeth into his hand, just before 2
p.m., police said.
Cops cuffed the 38-year-old
woman on robbery charges.
He bombed!
A man threatened to rob an Atlantic
Avenue bank before bolting
on June 3.
The criminal walked into the fi -
nancial institution at the corner of
Bond Street around 2:15 p.m. and
passed a note to the teller that read
“I have a bomb, give me cash,” according
to cops.
The teller was about to call the
cops when the robber made a run
for it toward State Street emptyhanded,
according to the authorities.
Let’s take a walk
Two nogoodniks kidnapped and
violently robbed a teen at a Nassau
Street skatepark on June 3.
The sinister duo walked up to the
14-year-old victim outside the High
Street subway station around 9 a.m.
and demanded he hand over his
stuff and told him, “Don’t try anything,”
according to police.
One of the louts then punched
him in the face and they dragged
him to a Nassau Street skatepark
where they relieved him of his Apple
Watch, Beats headphones, and
about $65 in cash, police said.
Back off!
Two ne’er-do-wells robbed a man
at gunpoint at the Jay Street-Metro-
Tech R train station on June 5.
The victim was waiting for his
train on the island platform bench
when a delinquent in his late teens
snatched his phone from his hands
and fl ed towards the Willoughby
and Bridge streets exit just after 2
a.m., according to police.
The man chased after the thief
but when he came to the top of the
staircase a heavyset and bearded
accomplice confronted him packing
a black semi-automatic gun and telling
him, “Get back on your train.”
He then saw both baddies make
a run for it on Willoughby Street towards
Flatbush Avenue, the authorities
said.
Head in the clouds
Cops arrested a man they suspect
of snatching a woman’s phone on the
subway near Joralemon Street.
The victim told cops that the suspect
was staring her down on the
train before he walked up to her
and strong-armed her phone out her
hands and fl ed near Court Street at
6:45 p.m.
The perp then took pictures of
himself on the phone, which automatically
uploaded to the victim’s
iCloud account where she could see
them, which led to cops identifying
and arresting the guy, slapping him
with robbery charges.
Snatched!
Cops arrested one of three bandits
that stole a man’s phone on a
train at DeKalb Avenue on June 3.
The victim was sitting in the last
car of the Manhattan-bound R train
near the door when two suspects
held open the door while a third allegedly
grabbed his phone from his
hands at Flatbush Avenue around
10:05 a.m., according to police.
The man, along with an off-duty
cop chased after the suspects, who
were able to escape.
Police picked up one 28-year-old
suspect and arrested him on Grand
Larceny charges.
— Kevin Duggan