72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Sunset slasher
A knife-wielding wacko stabbed
a man on 52nd Street on June 16.
The perp and the victim began
arguing outside a home, between
Second and Third avenues,
at around 4:30 a.m., when the bad
guy stabbed the victim in the lower
back, cops said.
The victim’s friend drove the victim
to Methodist Hospital, where he
was treated for non-life threatening
injuries, cops said.
Smash-and-grab
A mugger stole a woman’s cell
phone on 60th Street on June 6.
The baddie approached the victim
when she was looking at her
phone while walking between Seventh
and Eighth avenues, at around
3 p.m.. The perp then grabbed the
phone and ran off toward 7th Avenue,
cops said.
Seeley sneak
A burglar broke into a vacant
Seeley Street home on June 14.
The brute smashed the rear
glass door of the residence, located
between 18th Street and Prospect
Avenue, at around 10:45. After
breaking in, the thief stole several
electronics totaling $2,500, cops
said.
A tired heist
A carjacker stole the tires off
a parked car on Third Avenue on
June 15.
The victim left the car parked between
43rd and 44th streets at midnight,
and found all four tires and
rims missing when he returned at
9:40 a.m. the following morning,
cops said.
Failed grocery goon
A would-be burglar attempted
to steal from a Seventh Avenue grocery
store on June 15.
The criminal broke into the
store, located between 40th and 41st
street, at 6:00 a.m. and attempted
to steal a cash register, before feeling
without stealing anything, cops
said.
— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Midnight ambush
A group of thugs beat and robbed
a man on Atlantic Commons on
May 31.
The victim told police that three
or four brutes jumped him at S. Oxford
Street at 12:30 a.m., beating
him bloody, before taking his bank
cards, MetroCard, cash, and work
identifi cation, cops said.
The man waited until June 11 to
report the crime, and claimed he
did not get a good look at his attackers,
cops said.
Criminal appetite
Police collared a teen for allegedly
stealing Chinese food from a
delivery guy at Irving Place on June
12.
The victim was delivering the
chow when the 14-year-old suspect,
along with three delinquents
walked up to him, shoved him, and
snatched the grub, before making
a run for it at E. 19th Street at 6:30
p.m., according to the authorities.
The man then followed the
youngsters into a nearby park to reclaim
the order, when they threatened
further violence.
Cops caught up with the suspect
at Putnam Avenue and Irving Place
at 7:11 p.m. and charged him with
robbery, they said.
Flatbush fi end
A crook stole a teenage boy’s bag
on Flatbush Avenue on June 14.
The 16-year-old told cops that
the nogoodnik walked up to him
Between Fourth and Lafayette avenues
asking to see his bag, which
the boy refused and then the thief
wrested it from his shoulders and
fl ed towards Lafayette Avenue at
3:45 p.m., according to police.
Choked
Two scumbags choked a woman
on Downing Street on June 15.
The victim was walking towards
Seventh Avenue when the rogues
walked up to her put her in a chokehold
and demanded that she drop
everything near Bedford Street at
9:30 p.m.
She then screamed and fought
back, scaring off the ruffi ans, who
then ran towards Gates Avenue,
cops said.
Love marks
Cops arrested a woman for allegedly
biting her husband and
hitting him with a broom inside a
Monument Walk apartment in the
early hours of June 10.
The couple had an argument
when things got physical, and the
woman sank her teeth into her
beau’s shoulder, before taking a
metal broom handle and whacking
him on the head at Park Avenue at
1:20 a.m., police said.
The victim told police that he
has trouble raising his arm above
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his shoulder after the alleged attack
.The Boys in Blue cuffed the
woman and charged her with felony
assault an hour later at the
fl at.
Snatched
Two crooks snatched a woman’s
phone at a Lafayette Avenue subway
station on June 16.
The victim was sitting on the
steps of the Clinton-Washington Avenues
G-train station around midnight
when two louts nabbed it from
her hand and fl ed to street level,
cops said.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Room raider
A purloiner messed up a woman’s
stuff in a Schermerhorn Street
hotel room on June 12.
The victim told police that the
prowler got into her room and went
through all her bags before throwing
their contents on the fl oor, before
leaving without taking a thing
at Smith Street sometime between
6:45–11:30 p.m.
Targeted swipe
Police arrested a man for allegedly
raiding a Target on Albee
Square W. on June 10.
The suspect grabbed luggage,
clothes, and a bike, and left the store
near Flatbush Avenue Extension at
6:15 p.m., before cops cuffed him at
8:36 and charged him with grand
larceny, according to the authorities.
Bag bandit
A fi lcher stole a woman’s bag outside
a Duffi eld Street hotel on June
9.
The victim left her purse on the
sidewalk in front of the inn between
Fulton and Willoughby streets
when the sneak nabbed it at 7:15
p.m., along with a laptop, her passport,
phone, and earphones, according
to cops.
Cashing in
Cops cuffed a man for looting
cash registers at a Fulton Street department
store for a period spanning
March 10–June 8.
The employee of the store at Hoyt
Street allegedly stole $7,500 from
several cash registers, but surveillance
cameras caught him in the act
on several occasions, cops said.
Brooklyn’s boys in blue caught
up with the suspect in East Flatbush
and charged him with grand
larceny on June 11.
Bag snatcher
A lawbreaker snatched a woman’s
bag on Court Street on June
11.
The victim was shopping when
the rapscallion grabbed her bag off
her shoulder and made a run for it,
between Joralemon and Livingston
streets at 1 p.m., according to
police.
Wayward wheels
A scoundrel stole a man’s motorbike
on Hicks Street on June 5.
The man left his 2012 Ducati Panigale
parked between Middagh and
Cranberry streets around 11 p.m.,
but returned the next morning to
discover it was stolen, he told police.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED
HOOK
Grand theft auto
Cop arrested two men for allegedly
stealing a car from the corner
of Bond and Third streets on June
13.
Police claim that the defendants
rode off in the 1997 Lexus at about
7:35 p.m. Cops busted the duo the
next day for running a red light, and
the men have been charged with
grand larceny and criminal possession,
and were fi ned for the traffi c
violation, police report.
Dirty deeds
A fi lthy thief swiped $397 worth
of soap from a pharmacy on Court
Street on June 17.
Police report that the slippery
fi end made off with several bottles
of Dove soap from the pharmacy
on the corner of Pacifi c Street. The
items have not been recovered, police
say.
Clean getaway
Another crook tried to steal $78
worth of soap from a Smith Street
Pharmacy on June 17.
Cops say that the sudsy dud
grabbed two Dove bars of soap, four
bottles of Dove body wash, and a
bottle of Nivea oil from the store
between Warren and Baltic streets
before taking off. A store employee
chased the perp down the street and
recovered the stolen soaps, authorities
report.
— Rose Adams