84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Deli stickup
A punk held up a Schermerhorn
Street bodega on Nov. 9.
The victim told police that the
knave brandished a fake handgun
inside the shop near Hoyt Street at
8:20 am, before bagging $2,300 and
fl eeing toward Smith Street.
A-train A-hole!
Some creep tried to mug a woman
on the A train near the High Street
station on Nov. 9.
The victim told police that she
confronted the creep for following
her while aboard a Queens-bound
train in Manhattan at around 2:50
pm, when the baddie tried to swing
at her and missed, before trying to
unsuccessfully grab her purse.
Double trouble
A pair of goons attacked a guy
and attempted to rob him on Court
Street on Nov. 11.
The victim told police that the
two ruffi ans punched him in the
head between Atlantic Avenue and
State Street at 2 pm, beforing trying
and failing to take his phone and
bike.
Bad luck
A posse of blade-wielding purloiners
stole a bunch of scratch
cards from a Pearl Street newsstand
on Nov. 13.
The victim told police that the
criminals threatened him with a
knife between Willoughby and Fulton
streets at 11:40 am, before grabbing
several game cards worth
$1,400.
Hoodie heist
A shoplifter slugged a security
guard at a Fulton Mall clothing
store on Nov. 13.
The victim told police that he
tried to stop the thief from bagging
several hoodies inside the store between
Smith Street and Gallatin
Place at 3:30 pm, when the pilferer
punched him in the jaw and threatened
to pepper-spray him.
Slice n’ dice!
Nightcrawlers stole a bunch of
booze from a Brooklyn Bridge Park
pizza restaurant near Furman
Street on Nov. 9.
The victims told police that the
knaves got in the eatery near Pier
6 through the roof around 2:40 am
and took $210 worth of liquor, before
fl eeing through the emergency exit.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE-CLINTON HILL
COURIER L 8 IFE, NOV. 20-26, 2020
Cops shoot dog that
mauled suspect in Flatbush
Police and paramedics remove the badly mauled suspect, who was attacked by a
dog in Flatbush during a police chase, to an ambulance. Photo by Todd Maisel
Citi Bike baddie
A Citi Bike-riding lowlife stabbed
another cyclist on Willoughby Avenue
on Nov. 15.
The victim told police that the
scumbag came pedaling toward
him on the blue rental bike near
Vanderbilt Avenue at 7:30 pm, before
punching the victim and stabbing
him beneath the ribs.
The wounded victim biked to
Brooklyn Hospital for treatment,
according to police reports.
Held up
A menace ambushed a man on
Myrtle Avenue on Nov. 6.
The victim told police that the
knave threatened him with an unknown
object outside a liquor store
near Vanderbilt Avenue at 7:10 pm,
before stealing $200 in cash and
fl eeing the scene.
You shall not pass!
Some nogoodnik robbed a teen
on Atlantic Avenue on Nov. 11.
The 13-year-old victim told police
that the malefactor stepped in front
of him and demanded money near
Carlton Avenue at 2 pm, before grabbing
$17 in cash and running off.
Brass tacks
A thief nabbed almost $30,000
worth of musical instruments from
a Grand Avenue storage unit between
Oct. 3 and Nov. 9.
The victim told police that he
discovered that someone had taken
trumpets, a euphonium, a fl ute, and
tenor drums from the locked facility
near Park Avenue, worth $29,392.
Phone fi lcher
Some jerk snatched a teen’s
phone on the C train near S. Portland
Avenue on Nov. 11.
The 15-year-old victim told police
that he bandit yanked his cellphone
from his hand along the Fulton
Street line at 1:50 pm, before
hopping off the train.
— Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Market marauder
A robber stabbed a mini market
employee and stole the cash register
on 20th Avenue on Nov. 15.
The employee told police that the
dirtbag attempted to loot cash register
inside the shop near 81st Street
at 9:10 pm, when the employee
locked the front gate to the store —
enraging the attacker, who stabbed
him in the arm with a knife before
breaking a window and jumping out
with the drawer and $230 in tow.
— Rose Adams
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Snoozing swiper
A pickpocket robbed an iPhone
from a sleeping straphanger at a Surf
Avenue subway station on Nov. 13
The victim told police that he
woke up at the station near Stillwell
Avenue at around 10 am with his
phone missing and headphones still
in his ears.
Bathroom bandit
A thief stole an unattended wallet
from a Sheepshead Bay Road
building on Nov. 5.
The victim told police that she
left her wallet on a ledge in the bathroom
of the building between Shell
Road and W. Sixth Street while she
went into the stall at around 7 am
and returned to fi nd it missing.
— Jessica Parks
BY TODD MAISEL
A wild pursuit through the
streets of Flatbush came to a bloody
end on Nov. 11 when a pit bull
mauled a suspect who jumped into
its backyard during a police chase,
and cops shot the dog to prevent it
from killing the man.
Offi cers from the 63rd and 70th
precincts were pursing two suspects
— whose crime police did not
immediately disclose — in a car on
E. 29th Street between Farragut
Road and Foster Avenue at around
1:20 pm when the men ditched their
ride and began running on foot.
The men entered the backyard of
an E. 29th Street house, where they
encountered what was described
as a large pit bull who attacked one
of the two suspects. The other man
tried to pull the dog off, but the large
canine bit him, too.
Police said that they saw the pit
bull mauling the suspect, and shot
the dog, since they believed they
were also in danger. First responders
pronounced the dog deceased at
the scene.
The younger of the two suspects
suffered severe lacerations from
dog attack, and may have been
struck by a bullet that ricocheted
off a concrete wall.
Paramedics rushed both men
to Kings County Hospital in stable
condition with charges pending, offi
cials said.
After police shot the dog, the pit
bull’s owner began arguing and
shoving police offi cers on the scene.
A group of policemen tackled the
irate man to the ground and took
him into custody.
A woman who would not identify
herself said the shooting was
“unnecessary.”
“I was standing over the dog.
They didn’t have to shoot the dog,”
she cried.
Another resident, Tyreek Smith,
who said he trains large dogs, argued
that “the dog was only protecting
his property.”
“You gotta know how to handle
a dog — there are ways to do it without
having to shoot the dog,” said
Tyreek. “They didn’t have to shoot
that dog. The dog was acting the
way he should.”