84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Slashing shoplifter
A stab-happy crook slashed a security
offi cer at a Fulton Street department
store on Oct. 14.
The victim told police that the
goon attempted to shoplift a jacket
from the store near Hoyt Street at
around 12:38 pm, but when the offi
cer confronted, he then took out a
knife and slashed the victim in the
right arm.
Grand theft auto!
A group of pirates violently
carjacked a car service driver on
Henry Street on Oct. 20.
The victim told police that he
was waiting to pick up a fare near
Pierrepont Street at around 12:25
am, when the four marauders
opened his driver side door, pulled
him out of the car and beat him,
before fl eeing in his white 2018
Lexus.
Mama mia!
Some worm ripped off a pizzeria
on Livingston Street overnight
on Oct. 15.
The store owner told police that
he showed up to open his slice shop
near Hoyt Street around 5:50 am
and found that a pilferer had broken
a window and made off with
$300 from the cash register.
Pricey theft
Some perps shoplifted a fancy
boutique on Court Street on Oct.
21.
The victim told police that the
thieves made off with a number of
designer handbags from the Real
Real near Dean Street at around 5
pm, making off with $85, 265 worth
of merchandise.
— Ben Verde
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Emergency!
A jerk allegedly hit an emergency
room doctor in the back at the
Brooklyn Hospital Center on Dekalb
Avenue on Oct. 21.
The doc told police that they
were treating the brute just after 12
pm when he wound up and punched
him in the back.
The punchy patient was already
in police custody at the time, and
the doctor later decided he wanted
to press charges.
Packed pack
A sneak stole a backpack full
of sneakers and cash from an unlocked
car parked on Clermont Avenue
on Oct. 18.
COURIER L 8 IFE, OCT. 29-NOV. 4, 2021
Four people shot in front of
businesses in the daylight
The victim told police that he left
the vehicle near Myrtle Avenue for
about an hour at 9:45 am. While he
was gone, a fi lcher opened the car
door and nabbed a red backpack
with a pair of Nike Air Max Sneakers,
a Trinidad and Tobago passport,
and $2,000 in cash
Open window
A pilferer stole a handbag from
an open car window on Lafayette
Avenue on Oct. 18.
The victim told police she left
her car parked near St. Felix Street
at about 11 am, without realizing
she had left the front passengerside
window open. Sometime between
then and when she got back
Police guard the location in Flatbush,
Brooklyn where four people were
shot on Oct. 21. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
to the car just after 2 pm, someone
reached into the open window and
grabbed her cream-and-blue striped
handbag with her work ID, an expired
drivers license, a debit card,
and a Medicare card. She cancelled
the debit card before any purchases
could be made.
T-mobile trickster
A punk stole someone’s identity
to open a T-Mobile account in 2019,
and the theft was only discovered
and reported to police on Oct. 21.
Police said the victim realized
a stranger had been wracking up
more than $200 in charges on an account
opened with the company in
his name. Police are investigating.
After-curfew theft
A lout stole money and cards
from a man sleeping outside on Auburn
Place in the early hours of Oct.
22.
The victim told police he had
missed his curfew at the Auburn
Family Residence near N. Portland
Avenue, and was fell asleep while
sitting on the steps outside. He woke
up just after 2am to fi nd someone
had stolen $80 in cash, a CashApp
card, a prepaid debit card, and his
veteran’s ID. He cancelled both
cards after realizing they had been
lifted.
Stolen e-bike
A delivery worker was dropping
off food on Adelphi Street when
someone hopped on his electric bicycle
and rode away on Oct. 22.
Police said the victim had left
the bike on the sidewalk for just a
few minutes at 8:30 pm, but it was
enough time for the lawbreaker to
steal the bike and ride off toward
Fulton Street. The victim still has
the key, but cops couldn’t fi nd the
bike or the thief during a search of
the neighborhood.
Snapped lock
A bike lock wasn’t enough to
stop one bandit from stealing an
electric bicycle from a delivery
worker on Fulton Street on Oct.
23.
The victim said she locked the
bicycle outside near St. James
Place while making a delivery
nearby. Though she was gone for
only about ten minutes, a thief
clipped her lock and rode away toward
Grand Avenue. Police said
the victim could not see the thief’s
face, but did see him leaving the
scene on her bike.
— Kirstyn Brendlen
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST—BATH BEACH
Cash Cab
A highway robber swiped $13,000
from a safe underneath the passenger
seat of a car parked on 86th
Street on Oct. 21.
The victim told police he stopped
to make a delivery between Bay
32nd Street and 23rd Avenue when
the bandit stole the cash around 1:30
pm and fl ed in his vehicle.
Smoke and fl ames
A shoplifter stole nicotine gum
and heartburn medication from a
Bay Parkway department store on
Oct. 18.
The sneak-thief tried to sneak
$1,000 worth of the products from
the store at the intersection of Shore
Parkway into her reusable shopping
bag around 5 pm before leaving
without paying.
—Jessica Parks
BY BEN BRACHFELD &
ROBERT POZARYCKI
Multiple people were reportedly
shot near two Brooklyn businesses
on the day of Oct. 21, and
an active search for the shooter remains
underway.
Police had blocked off the area
in front of Junction Pharmacy and
Raj Newsstand, at the corner of Nostrand
Avenue and Glenwood Road
near Flatbush Junction, after four
people were shot in the vicinity at
about 10:30 am.
Law enforcement sources said
one individual was shot in the hand,
while three others were hit in their
legs. All are likely to survive, police
sources said.
Offi cers from the 70th Precinct,
in responding to reports of the
shooting, found three 31-year-old
men wounded. One was hit twice in
the legs; the second man was struck
in left thigh and right knee; and the
third individual took a bullet to his
right hand.
EMS rushed them to Kings
County Hospital for treatment of
their injuries.
Cops also came across a fourth
shooting victim: a 34-year-old man
shot in the right thigh. Paramedics
brought him to Maimonides Medical
Center for treatment.
The NYPD continues to investigate
the incident, but do not yet
have any suspects in custody. As of
Tuesday evening, law enforcement
sources said, a motive for the shooting
was not yet known, nor was
there a description of the shooter.
Reached by phone, the owner
of Junction Pharmacy declined to
comment.
Eric Waterman, executive director
of East Flatbush Village, a local
business organization, said his
group was committed to providing
resources to the area to help keep it
safe.
“We’ve been working with the
owner of the deli. It was a very uneventful
summer in terms of Gun
violence in the area. This is the
fi rst incident in a good while,”
Waterman said.