72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Sunset slasher
A Knife-wielding wacko slashed
a man on Fourth Avenue on June
26.
The victim told police that he
began arguing with the goon near
58th Street at around 1 a.m., when
the brute brandished a knife and
cut the victim, causing minor lacerations
to his right hand, cops
said.
Bad connection
A scam artist swindled a Sixth
Avenue woman out of $40,000 on
June 25.
The victim told police she received
a call from an unknown
number while at her home between
49th and 50th street at 9:30
a.m. The charlatan told the victim
that she was being investigated
for fraud, and she needed to the
funds via an online virtual currency,
cops said.
Late-night bandits
Two savages beat a man and
robbed him on 48th Street on June
26.
The victim told police he was
walking between Fourth and Fifth
avenues at around 3 a.m., when
the two baddies began punching
and kicking him, before stealing
the victim’s wallet and cellphone,
cops said.
Camera crook
A thief stole a $1,500 camera
from a parked car on Prospect Avenue
on June 25.
The victim told police that he
left his car unlocked outside his
home between Eighth Avenue and
Prospect Park West, and — as the
victim headed inside his apartment
to grab something — the
fi lcher walked passed and swiped
the camera at around 9:15 a.m.,
cops said.
Stick-wielding snake
A marauder brutally robbed a
man on Second Avenue on June
27.
The victim told police he was
near the intersection of 59th Street
shortly after midnight, when the
perp began punching the victim
in the face. After the victim fell
to the ground, the crook laid into
him with a stick, before nabbing
his wallet and running off, cops
said.
Sunset scumbags
Two bandits robbed a woman
on Fourth Avenue on June 30.
The victim told police that she
was walking near 53rd Street at 3
a.m., when the perps grabbed her
and told her to “give us everything
you got.” The pillagers stole a cellphone
and a wallet, before fl eeing
toward 52nd Street, cops said.
Stroller looter
A thief snuck a wallet from an
unattended stroller on Greenwood
Avenue on June 30.
The victim told police that she
turned her back for a few minutes
while in a park near the Prospect
Expressway at 4 p.m., when the
crook took his chance and nabbed
her valuables, cops said.
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— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Hall Street stickup
Two baddies robbed a guy on
Hall Street on June 26.
The victim told cops he was
walking towards Willoughby Avenue
when the crooks walked up
with a gun and said, “Give me
your stuff” at 9:15 p.m.
The louts took his bag with his
laptop and his wallet, before making
a run for it, according to the
authorities.
Thirsty thieves
Crooks nabbed drinks from a
Fulton Street bodega on June 28.
A store employee told police
that the nogoodniks took fruit
juice and ice tea, and that when
he tried to confront them, one of
them threatened him with a knife
and the two left the scene at Washington
Avenue at 5 a.m.
Phone scam
A fraud stole a man’s phone at
Monument Walk on June 28.
The victim told cops that he
had arranged to meet up with the
malefactor near Park Avenue to
sell him his phone at 4 p.m.
When he got to the location,
he got into the ne’er-do-well’s car,
where they made the exchange.
But while counting the cash,
the victim noticed the scoundrel
underpaid him and after telling
him this, the villain said, “get out
of the vehicle or I’m going to do
you right here,” before skidding
off in his white Beamer SUV, according
to the authorities.
Bike bruisers
Some goons assaulted a delivery
guy on S. Portland Avenue on
June 29.
The victim told police that the
three crooks drove up to him in
two cars and kicked him off his bicycle
between DeKalb and Lafayette
avenues at 9:15 p.m.
One lawbreaker then pointed a
gun at the grounded biker, while
the other two fl eeced him, stealing
his phone and cash, before the trio
scrammed towards Fort Greene
Park, according to police.
Bad call
Cops arrested a guy they suspect
of throwing a phone at a woman’s
face on Vanderbilt Avenue on
June 24.
The victim told police that the
suspect’s phone hit her above the
eye at Lafayette Avenue, causing
cuts and swelling, and that she
went to Brooklyn Hospital to get
treatment at 9 a.m.
Cops caught up with the man
at the scene minutes later and
slapped him with felony assault
charges, according to the authorities.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Heights stickup
Two crooks robbed a man at
gunpoint on Willow Place on June
27.
The victim told police one
thief stuck a gun in his face and
demanded cash near Joralemon
streets at 9:08 p.m., while the other
snuck up from behind and turned
out his pockets.
The crooks nabbed his phone
and headphones before bolting towards
Middagh Street, according
to police.
Wet Swipe
A goon squad slapped a guy
with a wet shirt and robbed him
on Pacifi c Street on June 30.
The victim told cops that the
fi ve brutes grabbed him, nabbed
$100 in cash from his pocket, and
hit him in the ear with a wet Tshirt
before escaping to the Atlantic
Avenue subway station at
Fourth Avenue at 1 p.m.
Canned!
Thieves nabbed sodas from a
street vendor Flatbush Avenue Extension
on June 24, before nailing
him the head with his own merchandise.
The victim told police that he
was putting his canned drinks in
the cooler of his food cart when
the scalawags snatched 10 juice
bottles and sprinted towards
DeKalb Avenue at 1 a.m., one delinquent
clocking him with a can
as they fl ed.
Paramedics brought the victim
to Brooklyn Hospital for treatment
of a cut to his forehead from
the airborne soft drink.
Phone fi lcher
Police arrested a man for allegedly
stealing a guy’s phone on
Schermerhorn Street on June 25.
The victim told cops he was
chilling at a playground between
Nevins Street and Third Avenue
when the suspect waltzed up,
asked him for a smoke, and then
snatched his phone at around 7:30
p.m.
When victim demanded his
phone back, the man pulled out a
pocket knife and snarled “Back up,
I’m not playing — it’s my phone,”
according to police.
The victim followed the guy for
a couple of blocks to the corner of
St. Felix Street and Hanson Place,
where police cuffed him, according
to the authorities.
Pepper please!
Some wacko clocked a pizza
guy with a pepper shaker at a Willoughby
Street dollar-slice vendor
on June 29.
The victim told police that he
become embroiled in a shouting
match with two unruly customers
at the discount pizzeria near Jay
Street at 4:22 p.m., when one of the
grabbed the spice dispenser and
nailed him in back of his head.
The victim checked in to Cobble
Hill hospital for treatment, where
he required stitches, cops said.
Slashed!
A knife-wielding maniac attacked
a cyclist on Gold Street on
June 30.
The victim told police that he
was on his bike when the reprobate
hurled him to the street and
started stabbing — leaving him
with a small cut to his face and a
puncture wound on his body — at
Johnson Street at 6:30 p.m.
CitiBrutes!
Wretches hurled a CitiBike at a
woman in Brooklyn Bridge Park
on June 30.
The victim told cops she was
sleeping on a bench when the four
guys threw the city’s ubiquitous
blue bike at her near the corner of
Furman Street and Bridge Park
Drive at 5:20 a.m.
— Kevin Duggan