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BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Missing conscience
A liar swindled a 73rd Street resident
out of $3,765 on Dec. 26 by pretending
to be a detective and claiming
he needed the money to locate a
missing child.
The victim, who lives between
17th and 18th avenues, received the
phone call telling him he needed to
send the money or he would be arrested
around 9 am, and sent the
cash through a money transfer, police
said, adding that they traced
the call back to the Dominican Republic.
Sleepover nightmare
A baddie stole $6,700 from a duffel
bag inside a woman’s 66th Street
home at some point between Dec. 23
and Dec. 28.
The theft occurred at the home
between 18th and 19th avenues at
some point after midnight on Dec.
23, according to the report, which
added that the bag with the cash was
in the woman’s bedroom, where she
allowed two friends to sleep while
she slept in the living room.
Backstabber
A lout threatened to assault a
woman and pushed her — causing
her to hit her back against a metal
pole — on a bus on 77th Street on
Dec. 24.
The woman told police she was
on the B6 bus near Bay Parkway
around 6:20 pm when the lout told
her, “If you don’t move, I’ll make
you move” before pushing her, causing
her to hit the pole and injure her
spine, police said.
The brute then got off the bus and
fl ed in an unknown direction, according
to the report, which added
that the woman did not have any
visible injuries.
Mean Grinch
A thief stole $400 and a man’s
credit card, car keys, and identifi -
cation card from his unlocked car
parked on 74th Street on Dec. 25.
The theft occurred between 17th
and 18th avenues around 6 pm,
when the car was unlocked and the
driver’s side door was open with the
engine running, police said.
Cash grab
A thief stole a woman’s wallet
— with more than $220, her credit
card, and driver’s license inside —
from an 86th Street store on Dec. 27.
The incident occurred at the
store between Bay 31st and Bay
32nd streets around 1:15 pm, when
the woman left her bag with the
wallet inside it in an aisle while she
shopped, according to the report.
Rude awakening
A punk stole a man’s wallet
while he was sleeping on a Brooklyn
bound D train that he boarded
in Manhattan on Dec. 27.
The man realized his wallet —
with $600 and his credit card inside
— was missing when he woke up at
around 6 pm at the 79th Street station
at New Utrecht Avenue, police
said.
What a tool
A thief removed the driver’sside
window of man’s car parked on
Shore Parkway on Dec. 28 and stole
his medication and construction
tools from inside.
The incident occurred between
15th and 16th avenues at around 10
pm, police said.
Punched and robbed
A scoundrel struck a man with
a small metal object, punched him,
and slashed his cheek before stealing
his cellphone, $175, and his
credit card on 77th Street on Dec.
30.
The assault and theft occurred
between 17th and 18th avenues at
6:30 pm, police said, adding that the
goon fl ed on foot on 77th Street towards
18th Avenue.
Hotel hell
A pair of louts stole a man’s car
from a Shore Parkway hotel at some
point between Dec. 29 and Dec. 30.
The incident occurred at some
point after 10 pm, when the man arrived
at the hotel between 19th and
20th avenues with a woman. The
pair had drinks, according to the
report, which added that the man
thought he was drugged because he
passed out and awoke in a daze, and
found the woman and another man
demanding he hand over cash. The
dastardly duo then took off in the
man’s car, police said.
— Julianne McShane
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Inn trouble
Three crooks beat and robbed a
man inside a Fourth Avenue hotel
on Dec. 20.
The victim told police he was inside
a room with three other guys
at the inn between 25th and 26th
streets at 4:10 am, when the goons
suddenly attacked him, punching
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him in the face a couple times, before
nabbing $750 from his jacket
and fl eeing.
Bedroom bandit
A thief stole $8,000 from a man’s
57th Street apartment on Dec. 21.
The victim told police the crook
entered his apartment between Seventh
and Eighth avenues at around
7:35 pm, and took the small fortune
in cash he’d stowed inside a drawer
in his bedroom.
Galaxy quest
Some rascal snatched a pricey
cellphone from a woman’s hand on
Fifth Avenue on Dec. 21.
The victim told police she was
between 50th and 51st streets at 8:15
pm, when the crook reached out and
grabbed the Galaxy Note 9 from her
hand.
Bedtime blues
Some crooks looted a man’s 55th
Street home while he slept on Dec.
18.
The victim told police the burglars
looted his house between
Sixth and Seventh avenues while he
snoozed at 3:02 am, nabbing $2,000
and an iPhone 7. — Kevin Duggan
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Bodega slasher
An armed robber injured two
people during a fi ght at a Mermaid
Avenue bodega on Dec. 25.
The lout walked into the store
near W. 32nd Street at 4:30 pm, brandished
a knife, and threatened the
employees before two witnesses
fought him off, according to police.
One of the two was hit in the face
and the other was hit in his right
eye and sustained a cut on his left
hand before the robber fl ed-empty
handed towards Neptune Avenue,
according to cops.
MacBook crook
A man stole a laptop from an offi
ce on Coney Island Avenue on Dec.
25.
The bandit got into the offi ce between
Neptune Avenue and Brighton
Eight Court at 5 pm through an
unlocked door, took the Apple Mac-
Book, and fl ed, according to police.
Package pirate
A robber stole a man’s package
delivered to his W. Fifth Street
home on Dec. 9.
The victim told cops that he received
notice the courier company
had delivered his package to his
home between W. Brighton and Neptune
avenues at 11 am, but when he
went to retrieve it, found that someone
had swiped the parcel containing
an expensive watch and jacket.
Wallet snatched
A sneak swiped a woman’s wallet
at a Surf Avenue bar on Dec. 26.
The victim told police she put her
wallet on the counter while ordering
food at the watering hole near
W. 16th Street at 11:30 pm, and then
left. On her way back to her car, she
realized her mistake and went back,
but her wallet was no longer at the
counter, she told cops.
She requested to see video footage
but the employee told her she
would have to come back two days
later to request it from the bar’s general
manager, cops said.
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Quarreling quartet
Four bandits robbed and attacked
a man and woman on Avenue
Y on Dec. 28.
The louts approached the man
at E. 17th Street at 9:45 pm and demanded
he give them $300.
When the victim refused, one
of the villains pointed a gun at
his chest and took his phone and
smashed it on the ground, according
to police.
A woman then stepped out of her
car at the same location — and one
of the miscreants stole her purse
and fl ed towards Avenue Z on foot,
cops said.
Delivery ambush
A group of brutes violently
robbed a delivery man on Bragg
Street on Dec. 29.
The victim told police he got a
call to deliver Chinese food to the
address near Avenue X at 9:20 pm,
and when he arrived and didn’t get
an answer at the door, a man and
woman walked up to him and the
man told him to give them the food
and threatened him with a gun.
He then punched the victim several
times in the head, causing two
lacerations, and snatched the bag of
food from him, cops said.
Three other women then kicked
him while he was lying on the
ground, before he fl ed, and all the
nogoodniks fl ed as well, police said.
— Kevin Duggan