72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Sunset shakedown
A scumbag tried to extort a man
by threatening his family on Fourth
Avenue on Aug. 23.
The victim told police that he
was at work near the intersection
of 49th Street when an unknown
phone number texted him a picture
of his family and demanded that he
wire the crook $400 at around 11:30
a.m.
Brutal bandits
Three brutes robbed a man on
49th Street on Aug. 19.
The victim told police that he
was between Sixth and Seventh avenues
when the bruisers approached
and asked for the time at around 3
a.m., when the victim took out his
cell phone, and the perps smashed
a glass bottle over his head, before
grabbing the phone and running
off.
Bank fraud
A scammer stole $1,700 from a
28th Street man’s bank account on
Aug. 14.
The victim, who lives between
Third and Fourth avenues, told police
that the swindler withdrew the
cash from a bank location using
forged documents at around 10:30
a.m.
Wheel lame
A tire-thief stole the wheels off a
car that was parked on Third Avenue
on Aug. 20.
The victim told police that he left
the car between 18th and 19th street
at 9 a.m., and returned an hour later
to fi nd his car on blocks.
Mail thief
A crook stole several packages
from a 34th Street apartment building
on Aug. 21.
The building superintendent
told police that the perp entered the
building between Fourth and Fifth
avenues at around 3 p.m. and stole
$200 worth of mail.
Carjacker
A thief looted a car parked on
Seventh Avenue on Aug. 19.
The victim told police that he
left the car between 57th and 58th
streets at 3 p.m., returning about six
hours later to fi nd his wallet, phone,
and electronics stolen.
Computer error
A ne’er-do-well broke a computer
at 61st Street store on Aug. 20.
A store employee told police that
the jerk angrily entered the store between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
at around 1:30 p.m. and smashed the
screen of the computer at the front
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desk, before fl eeing toward Seventh
Avenue.
— Aidan Graham
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
What a jerk!
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
attacking his girlfriend and snatching
her cellphone inside Washington
Park on Aug. 21.
The victim told police that her
beau punched her in the face and
took her phone at the bark near Myrtle
Avenue at 9 p.m., before hightailing
it.
Police arrested him the next
morning at Auburn Place at 6:50 a.m.,
charging him with felony robbery,
cops said.
Blackout!
Some scumbag mugged a man after
he passed out on Navy Walk on
Aug. 20.
The victim told police he drank
a possibly spiked soda near Myrtle
Avenue at xxx, when he began to feel
dizzy and lost consciousness. The
man came to at around 6 p.m., when
he discovered his bag was stolen.
Caught in the act
Police nabbed a man they suspect
of looting a woman’s Grand Avenue
home on Aug. 19.
The victim told police she spotted
the suspect leaving the back of
her house with an expensive watch,
a metal necklace, and jars of full of
change between Gates and Putnam
avenues at 5:55 p.m. and immediately
called 911,
Cops tracked the man to a nearby
school at Downing Street and Gates
Avenue 20 minutes later, cuffed him,
and served him with felony burglary
charges.
See ya later!
A thief stole a guy’s bike amid a
botched sale on Classon Avenue on
Aug. 25.
The victim told police he was selling
his bike on Craigslist and met
up with the bandit to sell the bicycle
near Lafayette Avenue at 5:30 p.m.
The scoundrel asked if he could
test ride the two-wheeler and headed
down Classon Avenue toward DeKalb
Avenue but never came back, according
to cops.
— Kevin Duggan
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Road rage
An irate driver beat a traffi c cop
for writing a parking ticket on Remsen
Street on Aug. 19.
The victim was writing up the
ticket between 151 Remsen Street at
3:50 p.m., when the car’s owner spotted
the offi cer and shouted, “You
don’t respect the plaque,” before
shoving him and punching him in
the face, cops said.
The crook then hopped in his car
and peeled off — on the sidewalk —
nearly hitting several pedestrians
in process, according to police.
Sharp crook
A knife-wielding wacko stabbed
a man on Bond Street on Aug. 25.
The victim told police he was
arguing with the suspect near Livingston
Street at 10:23 p.m., when
the nut pulled the knife and plunged
into his gut.
Police found the victim highly
uncooperative, saying the man refused
to provide information on his
attacker.
Commuter hell
Police arrested a man for allegedly
beating and robbing a man inside
the High Street subway station
on Aug. 25.
The victim told police the suspect
snatched the phone from his
hand inside the station near Cadman
Plaza East at 2:33 p.m., when
he gave chase and ended up brawling
with the man, who at one point
hurled his phone to the ground,
cracking the screen.
Police cuffed the suspect at the
scene on a felony robbery charge,
cops said.
Double dipping
A thief snatched a woman’s
phone from her hand on Myrtle Avenue
on Aug. 21.
The victim told police she was
between 150 Myrtle Avenue at 11
p.m., when the crook snuck up and
grabbed her iPhone X, before demanding
$60 for its return.
The woman duly handed over the
cash, only for the crook to take off
with her money — and the phone.
— Colin Mixson
78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Mr. Loser
A slimeball harassed a woman
on Berkley Place on Aug. 19.
The victim told police that her
former coworker had been sending
her multiple messages through
various social media platforms,
calling her derogatory names for
weeks. The victim later encountered
the scumbag on the street between
Sixth and Seventh avenues
— when he began screaming at her
at around 8 a.m., causing her to fear
for her safety, cops said.
Check please
Police arrested a woman for allegedly
failing to pay their dinner
tab after ordering a boozy feast at
a Flatbush Avenue restaurant on
Aug. 18.
A restaurant employee told police
that the suspect ordered four
shots of vodka and a boneless wings
appetizer special from the store
near Atlantic Avenue, but did not
have any money to pay.
Police arrived on the scene and
cuffed the woman on misdemeanor
larceny charges, police said.
Hit and run
Some lowlife left the scene of a
Fifth Avenue car accident on Aug.
19.
The victim old police that the
driver of a white box truck smashed
into his car between Baltic and
Douglass street — causing substantial
damage — before peeling off
without so much as an apology at
around 7:45 a.m.
Road rage
A lout vandalized a car in a fi t of
rage on Fifth Avenue on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that he was
turning his car onto Union Street
when the perp began punching and
kicking the car in the crosswalk at
around 4:35 p.m.
Scrapped
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
stealing $324 worth of scrap metal
from a 10th Street junkyard on Aug.
19.
A scarp yard employee told police
the suspect grabbed 93 pounds
of metal from the lot between Third
and Fourth avenues before running
off at around 4 p.m.
Cops caught up with the man
later that day and arrested him on
misdemeanor petit larceny charges,
according to police reports.
Park Slope puncher
A brute sucker punched a man
on Seventh Avenue on Aug. 20.
The victim told police the bruiser
slugged him in the back of the head
near Sixth Street at around 2 p.m.,
— Aidan Graham