63RD PRECINCT
MARINE PARK —MILL BASIN—FLATLANDS—
BERGEN BEACH
Credit-card criminal
A fi lcher took a woman’s bag containing
her debit card and clothing
while she was shopping at an Avenue
U clothing store on Feb. 28.
The woman told police she left
her bag unattended while trying on
clothes at the store between Flatbush
Avenue and E. 52nd Street at
around 9:30 pm. Following the theft,
the victim noticed her card was
used in a transaction, cops said.
The store did not have access to
security camera footage of the area
at the time of the incident, police reported.
Bicycle thief
A man showed up at his ex-girlfriend’s
Flatbush Avenue offi ce and
stole her cash and debit card on
March 1.
The man entered the victim’s
place of employment between Avenues
U and T, in violation of an order
of protection, and asked her for
money to buy a bicycle, which the
woman refused to give, according
to police.
The perp then grabbed her bag
without consent and took approximately
$220, along with the debit
card, which the victim promptly
cancelled, cops said.
Purse snatcher
A thief stole cash and gift cards
from a woman’s purse after she temporarily
lost the bag in an Avenue U
shopping mall on Feb. 28.
The woman accidently dropped
the purse from her child’s stroller
in the shopping center near Flatbush
Avenue around 11:15 am, fi nding
it 15 minutes later hanging from
a clothing rack with the valuables
missing, according to cops.
Store security cameras did not
get a clear look at the looter, cops
said.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Kicked in the door
Burglars broke down the front
door and robbed an E. 12th Street
home of several items on Feb. 27.
The victim reported to be missing
cash, jewelry, a Samsung phone
and a Louis Vuitton bag when she
returned to her home near Avenue
X in the evening, police said.
Cops suspect multiple home invaders
entered the property between
2 pm and 6 pm, before fl eeing
through the back door, according to
the report.
Convenience crooks
Three looters robbed an Emmons
Avenue convenience store of
approximately $1,000 and several
cartons of cigarettes on Feb. 26.
One of the robbers pointed a silver
fi rearm at the store clerk while
the other perps reached around the
counter and grabbed the items after
the three men entered the store on
the corner of Sheepshead Bay Road
at 3:42 am, police reported.
The perps made their getaway on
foot after three minutes, according
to cops.
Foiled
A scoundrel threatened an Avenue
V store employee in an attempted
robbery on Feb. 26, but
ended up fl eeing the scene without
stealing anything.
The perp went behind the counter
at 4:14 pm and threatened an employee
to “give me the money or I
will punch you in the face.” The employee
closed the cash register and
pointed to the store’s security camera,
before the would-be thief fl ed
empty-handed.
The camera footage of the incident
clearly shows the perp’s face,
according to the report.
— Aidan Graham
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Words hurt
A lout stabbed a man in the stomach
on a Manhattan-bound D train
near the 20th Avenue station on Feb.
25 after the pair got in a verbal dispute.
The incident occurred near the
station at 86th Street at around 9:15
am, according to the report, which
added that the man then got off the
train at the 20th Avenue stop and received
medical treatment at Maimonides
Medical Center.
Car gone
A thief stole a gray 2019 Hyundai
Sonata from its 67th Street parking
spot at some point between Feb. 25
and March 1.
The incident occurred between
19th and 20th avenues at some point
after 7 pm on Feb. 25, police said.
Purse pilferer
A baddie stole an employee’s
purse with $1,500, a credit card, and
the woman’s cellphone inside at a
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Bay Parkway store on Feb. 26.
The robbery occurred at the store
at W. Ninth Street shortly after 11:30
am, when the criminal went behind
the counter and grabbed the woman’s
bag with her stuff inside, according
to the report.
Didn’t check out
A criminal swindled a woman
out of $2,500, likely by altering a
check she had mailed in an Avenue
P mailbox on Feb. 28, according to
police.
The woman told police she mailed
the check for $1,550 at the mailbox
near W. Second Street at 7 am on
Feb. 28, and then saw that a check
for $2,500 had been deposited to an
unknown bank account on March 3,
according to the report.
— Julianne McShane
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Smoking gun
Cops are looking for the gunmen
who they said robbed a Fourth Avenue
bodega on Feb. 26, taking $400
and cigarettes.
The victim told police three men
wearing masks barged into the
store between 17th and 18th streets
waving a pistol and demanding cash
at 4:25 am, and that while one guy
cleaned out the register, another
man looted a back-room storage
area, nabbing another $300 worth of
smokes.
Push and pedal
Some wacko attacked a 66-yearold
woman on Fifth Avenue on Feb.
26.
The victim told police the reprobate
shoved her to the ground as
she strolled between 50th and 51st
streets at 12:48 pm, before hopping
in a bicycle and fl eeing.
Knock it off
Cops arrested a 38-year-old man
for allegedly selling knock-off merchandise
from a Fourth Avenue variety
store on Feb. 26.
Police claim to have found the
suspect hawking counterfeit North
Face backpacks, gloves, hats, and
Adidas headphones from the store
between 25th and 26th streets at
10:58 am, and he was arrested on a
felony forgery charge.
Van no-Morrison
A thief drove off with a man’s
2014 Ford Eco Van he parked on
Third Avenue on Feb. 28.
The victim told police he left his
ride between 51st and 52nd streets
at 11:50 am, and returned three days
later to fi nd his van poached.
Hot and cold
Cops have given up the hunt for
the man who set fi re to a Fifth Avenue
apartment building on Feb. 28.
Fire erupted within an apartment
inside the building between
49th and 50th streets at 9:39 am, and
a city fi re marshal later concluded
some nut job intentionally set the
blaze, cops said.
Sharp suspect
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
slashing a man’s face with a box cutter
inside a Fourth Avenue eatery
on March 2.
The victim told police he was arguing
with the suspect inside the
restaurant between 54th and 55th
streets at midnight when the guy
whipped out the razor blade and
dragged it across the left side of the
victim’s head.
The suspect fl ed the scene following
the attack, but the victim joined
police on a search of the area, and
identifi ed his assailant after spotting
him on 50th Street near Fourth
Avenue, according to police.
— Colin Mixson
60TH PRECINCT
CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Shot in the leg
A brute shot a woman on Mermaid
Avenue on Feb. 26.
The woman was near Stillwell
Avenue at 4:18 pm when the lout
fi red, hitting her in the leg, according
to police.
Charged it
A nogoodnik wiped out more
than $3,000 from a woman’s credit
card account at her W. 33rd Street
residence, sometime between April
2018 and February 2019.
The woman told police that on
April 16, 2018 around noon, the villain
opened up email accounts under
her name and conducted multiple
online transactions without her
consent, according to police.
Apartment robbed
Some raider stole more than
$3,000 from an E. Oceana Drive
apartment on Jan. 15.
The woman told police that
the money was missing from her
dresser drawer around 11 am, and
there was no forced entry to the residence
near Seacoast Terrace, police
said. — Natallie Rocha