72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Sunset stickup
Police arrested a man for allegedly
robbing another man at gunpoint
on Seventh Avenue on Aug.
10.
The victim told police that he
was walking between 61st and 62nd
streets with $7,000 in cash in a black
plastic bag at 4 p.m., when the suspect
pulled a gun on him and nabbed
the money.
Police tracked down the suspect
and arrested him hours later on felony
robbery charges, but did not recover
the fi rearm, cops said.
Apple picking
A thief stole a straphanger’s cellphone
at a Fourth Avenue subway
station on Aug. 6.
The victim told police that he
was aboard the Bay Ridge-bound R
train when the pilferer snatched the
phone at around 10 a.m., before fl eeing
the train as it pulled into 25th
Street.
Inside out
A burglar stole $121,000 worth of
property from a vacant 35th Street
warehouse on Aug. 1.
An employee told police that the
thief entered the storage facility between
Second and Third avenues
sometime between 8 a.m. and midnight,
before nabbing various electronics
and then hightailing it.
Rude!
A vandal smashed up a parked
car on 55th Street sometime between
Aug. 10 and 11, causing about
$250 worth of damage.
The car owner told police that he
left his car between Sixth and Seventh
avenues at around 7 p.m., and
returned the next morning to fi nd
his hood dented and side mirrors
cracked.
Cash grab
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
robbing another man on Fort
Hamilton Parkway on Aug. 11.
The victim waved down a patrolman
and told him that the suspect
had punched him and stole cash
from his wallet near E. Fifth Street
at around 6:50 a.m.
The cops tracked down the man
shortly after and arrested him on
felony robbery charges, according
to police reports.
Bad roommate
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
assaulting his roommate at their
52nd Street home on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that he began
arguing with the suspect in the
apartment between Seventh and
Eighth avenues at around 1 a.m.,
when the suspect allegedly threw
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his cellphone at the victim, before
punching him repeatedly.
Police arrived on the scene and
charged the suspect with felony assault,
according to police reports.
— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Midnight menace
Gun-armed bandits held up a
man on Fulton Street on Aug. 7.
The victim told police that the
brigands ambushed him with a
semi-automatic pistol near Adelphi
Street at 12:20 a.m., when they
nabbed his phone and a $20, before
fl eeing toward Carlton Avenue, police
said.
Gunpoint ambush
Two gunmen robbed a guy on
Carlton Avenue on Aug. 6.
The victim told cops the wretches
pulled out a pistol and told him to
hand over his wallet and phone near
Lafayette Avenue at 11:45 p.m.
The outlaws then took his cash
and a MetroCard from the victim’s
money clip, according to police.
Naked criminality
Two rogues stripped and robbed
a woman on Monument Walk on
Aug. 9.
The victim told police that she
was sitting on a bench when the
fi ends approached her between
Navy and St. Edwards streets at
9 p.m., when they shoved her, and
yanked off her shorts and shirt to
gain access to the phone and cash in
her pockets,
Unchained!
A punk snatched a woman’s
chains at the Nevins Street subway
station on Aug. 5.
The victim told police that she
was heading through a turnstyle
to the Manhattan-bound platform
when the reprobate ripped the
golden chain off her neck near Fulton
Street at 8:45 p.m.
The woman fought to get back
her jewelry and the brute elbowed
her in the mouth before the robber
fl ed onto a train, cops said.
Rough and tumble
Some dirtbag beat up on old man
on Lexington Avenue on Aug. 9.
The 81-year-old victim told police
that the stranger approached him
and growled, “I know you,” before
hurling him to the ground between
Grand and Classon avenues just after
8 a.m.
The victim — who suffered a broken
arm and a head injury — later
explained to investigators he didn’t
know his assailant, who fl ed the
scene toward Classon Avenue following
the assault, cops said.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Food truck fi lchers
A band of thieves robbed a food
truck on Pearl Street on Aug. 6.
A worker told police that the
three rakes walked up to the halal
truck between Fulton and Willoughby
streets and repeatedly
smacked one of his employees with
some sort of club at 4:10 p.m., before
nabbing $300 and making a run for
it toward Borough Hall.
Hell of a haul!
A thief stole clothes from a Fulton
Street retailer on Aug. 5.
A witness told police that the
prowler stole a pair of jeans and
several shirts worth a total of more
than $1,100 from the store near Gallatin
Place at 2:40 p.m.
Pod purloiner
A scoundrel snatched a woman’s
wireless headphone at a Schermerhorn
Street subway station on Aug. 5.
The victim told cops that the juvenile
delinquent, who she said looked
like a 15-year-old boy, grabbed her
one Apple AirPod from her left ear
and dashed out the station near
Hoyt Street around 6:20 p.m.
Ransacked!
A scoffl aw looted a woman’s
parked car at Brooklyn Bridge Park
on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that she
spied the purloiner enter her unlocked
vehicle at Furman Street between
Joralemon Street and Atlantic
Avenue at 1:10 a.m.
When she moved to intervene in
the heist, the sneak got out and fl ed
into a nearby park with her driver’s
license, passport, debit card and
$260 in cash, cops said
— Kevin Duggan
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Stroller savage
A wretch assaulted a woman
with a stroller on Flatbush Avenue
on Aug. 12.
The victim told police that she
was walking near the Grand Army
Plaza when she got into a verbal dispute
with the stroller-pushing perp,
who rammed the child-carrier into
the victim multiple times at around
1 p.m.
Bad date
A scumbag verbally abused a
woman on Fifth Avenue on Aug. 6.
The victim told police that she
was meeting a man she met through
an online dating service, but when
she showed up at the agreed upon
spot near Third Street at around 8
p.m., the man began yelling at her,
making her fear for her safety.
Mall marauder
A shoplifter looted an Atlantic
Avenue store on Aug. 6.
A store employee told police that
the thief entered the store near the
intersection of Flatbush Avenue
at around 5:50 p.m. before stealing
$350 worth of items and making off
undetected.
Mail bandit
A sneak stole $650 worth of mail
from a Sterling Place apartment
building on Aug. 7.
A resident told police that the
pilferer entered the building between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
at around 6 p.m., and stole several
packages from the building lobby.
Handy scammer
A conman attempted to break
into a 14th Street home by posing as
a maintenance worker on Aug. 9.
The victim told police that a man
rang the doorbell and requested entry
to the house between Sixth and
Seventh avenues at around 11:30
a.m., but the resident who opened
the door called her landlord, who
said that he had not sent any maintenance
worker.
After the victim confronted the
fraudulent home invader, he ran
away, cops said.
Freebooting foodie
A thief looted a Flatbush Avenue
grocery store on Aug. 11.
An employee told police that the
bandit entered the store between
Prospect Place and Park Place before
grabbing about $109 worth of
items and running off at around
3:40 p.m.
— Aidan Graham