72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Have a chair
A bruiser beat a man with a
chair after losing a card game on
Eight Avenue on July 21.
The victim told police that the
wacko lost a poker game between
54th and 55th streets at around 11
p.m., causing him to angrily hit
the victim over the head with a
chair, cops said.
Smash and grab
A thief looted an Metropolitan
Transportation Authority employee’s
government issued car on
Fourth Avenue on July 17.
The victim told police that she
left the MTA vehicle between 43rd
and 44th streets at around 3 p.m.,
and the swindler had smashed the
driver’s side window and stolen
$487 worth of items by the time
she returned an hour later, cops
said.
Bob the bruiser
Cops arrested a construction
worker for allegedly assaulting a
man with a brick on 51st Street on
July 17.
The victim told police that he
began arguing with the suspect
over conditions at a construction
site where they worked between
Second and Third avenues at
around 9:20 a.m., when the argument
escalated, and the suspect
allegedly hit the victim with a
masonry in the back of the head.
Authorities arrived on the
scene shortly after and took the
victim to NYU Langone Hospital-
Brooklyn, while they cuffed the
suspect on felony assault charges,
according to police.
Plywood punk
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
hitting another man with a
piece of wood on Seventh Avenue
on July 21.
The victim told police that he
was walking between 49th and
50th streets, when the suspect approached
and allegedly hit him
with a wooden plank at around
6:30 p.m., causing severe bruising,
cops said.
First responders tracked down
the man and arrested him later
that day on felony assault charges,
according to police.
Corner store crook
A bandit looted a Fourth Avenue
convenience store on July 22.
Store management told police
that the perp broke the lock on
the front door of the store near
17th Street, before stealing $1,000,
along with several cartons of cigarettes
at around 2:30 a.m., cops
said.
Sunset scumbag
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
beating another man on
Sixth Avenue on July 19.
The victim told police that he
was near 44th Street when the
victim approached and allegedly
hit him in the face repeatedly at
around 5:45 p.m., cops said.
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— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Bad date
Some sleaze groped, beat, and
robbed a woman on N. Portland
Avenue on July 16.
The victim told police she met
up with the man through a dating
app, but that the creep started fondling
her breasts and thigh asking
for sex when she got into a car
with him at Park Avenue at 3 p.m.
When the woman demanded
he stop, the dirtbag punched her
in the face and stole $20 from her
purse, before speeding off and
leaving her behind, according to
the authorities.
Teen terror
Two thieves robbed a teenager
on Hanson Place on July 15.
The 13-year-old boy told cops
the punks waltzed up near S. Portland
Avenue demanding to know
if he was a member of the Crips
street gang at 9 p.m., when — after
replying that hew was not, in
fact, a member of the criminal organization
— the thieves nabbed
his book bag.
During the heist, the young
man’s phone fell out of his shorts
and one of the reprobates snatched
it too, before the pair fl ed, according
to the authorities.
Sharp thieves
A band of thieves robbed a
teenager on Fort Greene Place on
July 17.
The victim, 15, told police
that the crooks pulled a knife on
him near DeKalb Avenue at 10:20
p.m., before nabbing his headphones
and fl eeing towards Fulton
Street.
Sibling rivalry
Cops cuffed a woman they suspect
of slashing her brother with
a box cutter on North Portland
Avenue on July 14.
The victim told cops that his
sibling sliced him across the gut
with the razor between Park and
Myrtle avenues at 11:15 p.m.
Cops cuffed the suspect and
slapped her with felony assault
charges, according to the authorities.
Busted
Police arrested a man for allegedly
beating a woman on St. Edwards
Street on July 20.
The victim told police that she
was heading to a park to get her
brother near Park Avenue at 11:20
p.m., when the suspect started
punching and choking her
Cops caught up with him two
days later and slapped him with
felony assault charges.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Begging for a fight
Police arrested a man they suspect
of beating up a guy at the Atlantic
Avenue Barclays Center
subway station on July 15.
The victim told police the man
demanded money from him, and
— after he refused — punched
him in the face just before 2 p.m.
Police seized the suspect on the
spot and slapped him with felony
robbery charges.
Knifepoint robbery
A knife-wielding wacko robbed
a teen on Flatbush Avenue Ext. on
July 17.
The victim, 15, told police he
was near Myrtle Avenue when the
malefactor pulled a knife on him,
snarling, “whatcha got in your
pockets?” The crook snatched
$15 from the kid, before fl eeing
towards Myrtle Avenue at 12:20
p.m.
Uncivil discourse
Two louts robbed a man on
Fourth Avenue on July 18.
The victim told police he was
arguing with several men near
Warren Street at 1:15 a.m., when
one of the nogoodniks demanded
his wallet.
The victim threw it onto the
street, and one of the crooks
picked it up and fl ed the scene,
cops said.
Choking incident
A man choked his girlfriend on
Furman Street on July 20.
The victim told police she was
arguing with her beau near Montague
Street at 11:10 p.m., when he
choked her and slammed her into
a metal fence before snatching a
chain from her neck.
It’s a rental!
A crook stole a man’s rental car
on Smith Street on July 21.
The victim told police that he
left the car outside a bakery unlocked
— keys in the ignition and
the engine running — between
Dean and Bergen streets at 12:23
a.m.
He told police he believes that
some villains holding a Dominos
Pizza box across the street at the
time nabbed the car and bolted.
— Kevin Duggan
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Rough breakup
Some lowlife punched his exgirlfriend
in the head and robbed
her at her W. 32nd Street apartment
on July 16.
The victim told police she and
her former beau were arguing at
the apartment between Mermaid
and Neptune Avenues at 7:45 p.m.,
when he punched her in the head
before stealing her debit card,
cops said.
Tool time
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing $1,210 worth of tools from
a Bay View Avenue home on July
18.
The victim told police the burglar
pushed the air conditioner
through the front window of his
house between W. 35th and W.
36th streets at 7:00 p.m., before
nabbing various tools and fl eeing,
cops said.
Rocked
Some nut job beat a man with
a rock outside of a W. 15th Street
store on July 17.
The victim told police a man
walked up to him between Surf
and Mermaid avenues at 12:35
a.m., and slammed a rock into his
face, cops said. The rock-wielding
brute followed up the assault by
stomping on the victim’s left arm,
breaking it, cops said.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Lutheran Hospital for treatment,
cops said.
— Chandler Kidd