84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Chewed out!
Police arrested a man for allegedly
biting a guy in the face on the
F train on Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
suspect allegedly lunged toward
him unprovoked aboard a Manhattan
bound train at Smith and Ninth
streets and sank his teeth into the
victim’s cheek.
Cops collared the suspect for
felony assault charges, while paramedics
brought the victim to Methodist
hospital for treatment, according
to police reports.
Caned!
Some jerk smacked a guy with
a cane during a robbery on Joralemon
Street on Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
brute picked up the stick off the
ground at Court Street at 1:40 pm,
before hitting him over the head
and running off with his phone.
Up in smoke!
A villain held up a smoke shop
on Livingston Street on Oct. 13.
The victim told police that simulated
having a gun inside the storefront
at Nevins Street at 3:30 am before
jumping over the counter and
emptying the register, bagging a total
of $300.
Peer pressure
Cops arrested a guy for allegedly
robbing $1,000 from another guy at
Flatbush Avenue on Oct. 13.
The victim told police that the
suspect and two other box-knife
wielding baddies allegedly forced
the victim to withdraw cash from a
bank machine near Fulton Mall at
around 3:25 pm, before running off
with the ill-gotten green.
Police collared one of the men on
felony robbery charges at the scene,
according to police reports.
Clean sweep!
A looter raided a Livingston
Street dry cleaners in the early
hours of Oct 17.
A store worker told police that
the bandit busted the front glass
door of the storefront between Hoyt
and Smith streets at 1:40 am and
raided all four registers, snagging
$450 in cash.
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FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
Raucous rider
Some scumbag attacked a bus
driver on Myrtle Avenue on Oct. 14.
The victim told police that she
asked the menace to make way for
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCT. 23-29, 2020
Killer of L&B Spumoni Gardens
owner sentenced 25 to life
Police offi cer secure the intersection of 12th Avenue an 76th Street in Dyker
Heights where Louis Barbati was murdered. Photo by Georgine Benvenuto
a disabled passenger aboard the bus
near Vanderbilt Avenue at 12:30 pm,
but the baddie hurled hot coffee at
the driver, burning her face.
Park prowlers
A group of goons ambushed a man
in Fort Greene Park on Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
louts demanded his phone inside
the green space near Willoughby
and St. Edwards streets at around
12:20 pm, before another ne’er-dowell
snatched his car keys and the
two goons bolted.
Scoot!
A sneak thief stole the batteries
from a Revel Scooter on Park Avenue
on Oct. 13.
A witness told police that the
scoundrel removed the $1,600 battery
from the blue rental motorbike
between Navy and St. Edwards
streets at around 12:20 am.
Lobby loot
A package pirate raided a Lafayette
Avenue building lobby on Oct.
13.
The victim told police that the
fi lcher took an undelivered fl eece
and cosmetics from the building
near Carlton Avenue at 9:35 pm.
Everything robbery
A looter ransacked a Myrtle Avenue
bagel shop in the early hours
of Oct. 18.
The victim told police that the
bandit broke into the baked goods
purveyor between Steuben Street
and Grand Avenue around 4 am and
stole the cash register containing a
whopping $7,200.
— Kevin Duggan
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Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–
Red Hook
Hairy situation
A sneak thief nabbed 21 bottles of
shampoo from a Smith Street pharmacy
on Oct. 20.
An employee told police that the
burglar walked out with $105 worth
of shampoo from the store near Warren
Street at 12:15 pm.
Car break-in
A lout stole $700 worth of goods out
of a car on Union Street on Oct. 19.
The victim told police that the
bandit broke one of the windows
of his 2020 Toyota parked by Bond
Street between 7 am and 1 pm and
stole various ill-gotten goods.
Clean escape
A group of germaphobic pilferers
nabbed hand sanitizer from outside
a Henry Street school on Oct. 17.
An employee told police that the
group pried open the gate to the
school on Mill Street at about 3:10
pm and snagged a large hand sanitizer
dispenser and a stool.
What a tool!
A thief snatched tools from a car
on Dwight Street on Oct. 17.
The victim told police that perp
opened the driver’s side door of his
company’s van near Verona Street at
around 2:45 pm, and stole three saws
and a hand drill, worth $800 total.
— Rose Adams
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Un-tased
Two bicycle-riding brigands attempted
to mug two people walking
on E. 23rd Street on Oct. 18.
The victims told police that the pillagers
bransiehd knives while attacking
them near Avenue S at around
2:30 am, when a third bozo arrived
with a stun gun, which the victims
wrestled out of his hands causing the
three attackers to fl ee.
— Jessica Parks
BY ROSE ADAMS
The man convicted of killing the
owner of the legendary L&B Spumoni
Gardens pizzeria in 2016 will
face 25 years to life behind bars, offi
cials announced on Oct. 19.
Andres “Andy” Fernandez, 44,
was convicted of second-degree
murder and second-degree criminal
possession of a weapon in December
2019.
Prosecutors said that Fernandez
shot 61-year-old Louis Barbati
outside of his Dyker Heights home
during a botched robbery in June
2016. Fernandez waited for about
an hour outside Barbati’s 12th Avenue
house before the well-known
restaurateur returned from his
iconic Gravesend pizzeria at about
7 pm, offi cials said.
Barbati parked his car and began
walking towards his house
while holding a plastic bag with
$15,483 in cash when Fernandez
approached him and shot him multiple
times on the corner of 12th
Avenue and 76th Street, according
to the Brooklyn district attorney’s
offi ce.
During Fernandez’s 2019 trial,
a Federal Bureau of Investigation
agent said that Fernandez could
be seen on surveillance video putting
on a black glove and holding
a handgun, before walking across
the street to confront Barbati and
shooting him, investigators said.
Cellphone records and eye witnesses
also placed Fernandez at
both the scene of the crime and at
the pizzeria earlier in the day, according
to investigators.
After the shooting, Fernandez
fl ed without taking any money in
an Acura.
Police offi cials released surveillance
images of Fernandez, and
he was identifi ed by several witnesses,
according to Gonzalez’s offi
ce. Federal authorities arrested
Fernandez on November 3, 2016 —
just over four months after the homicide.