63RD PRECINCT
MARINE PARK —MILL BASIN—FLATLANDS—
BERGEN BEACH
Package thief
Cops cuffed a man who they said
stole a package on E. 32nd Street on
Dec. 11.
The victim told police he saw the
suspect trespass to a house between
Avenues J and K at 9:23 pm, take a
package, and leave with it.
Bag bandit
Police arrested a teen on Dec. 13
for allegedly taking a man’s book
bag on Ralph Avenue on Dec. 10.
The victim told police that he
left his bag in a locker room at the
back of a pharmacy between E. 66th
Street and Avenue M at 4:12 pm.
The suspect then allegedly got
into the unlocked storage room area
and tried to leave the store with the
bag, but was stopped by another employee
and fl ed the scene, according
to the police report.
The 14-year-old suspect was arrested
three days later at on Brooklyn
Avenue between Avenues I and
J, authorities stated.
Cam crook
A scoundrel stole a man’s camera
he accidentally left in a rental
car from an Avenue K garage sometime
between Dec. 7 and 9.
The victim told police he returned
the car to the garage near
E. 42nd Street on Dec. 7 at 9:30 pm.
Later, he noticed he’d forgotten the
camera in the back seat, and called
the company, who said another customer
was using the car, police reported.
When it was returned to the
lot on Dec. 9 at 7 am, the company
alerted the victim, who checked the
car and found his camera bag empty
in the trunk, cops said.
The last customer then reported
to the victim that the car had been
stolen and returned while in his
care, according to the police report.
Smell ya later
A thief stole cologne from an Avenue
U store on Dec. 11.
The lout took several bottles of
the scent from a rack at the store
near E. 54th Street at 2:30 pm, and
bagged them before he left without
paying, according to police.
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CONEY ISLAND—BRIGHTON BEACH—
SEAGATE
Punching punk
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
punching and robbing a woman on
W. 23rd Street on Dec. 13.
The victim told police she was
between Mermaid and Neptune avenues
at 10 pm when the suspect took
her cellphone and fanny pack and
admitted to doing so to her.
When she asked him for her stuff
back, the suspect allegedly refused
and punched her in the face to fend
her off, cops said.
The suspect was later arrested in
his apartment, cops said.
Wayward wallet
Someone snatched a man’s wallet
on Shore Parkway on Dec. 10.
The victim told police that he lost
his wallet while buying fl owers near
West Avenue at 2:30 pm, and when
he noticed that it was missing, he
immediately went to retrieve it, but
found that somebody had already
taken it, along with $2,000 and his
credit cards.
Nightmare
A weasel took a man’s bag containing
his passport when he fell
asleep on a train at Brighton Beach
Avenue on Dec. 12.
The victim told police that he
got on the train and put his bag between
his legs and fell asleep. When
he woke up at Brighton Sixth Street
at noon, he realized that someone
had taken the bag, which contained
his Ukrainian passport.
Sick steal
Filchers stole medicine from a
Brighton Beach Avenue pharmacy
on Dec. 14.
The bandits stole several bottles
of cold and fl u medicine and fl ed
the store near Coney Island Avenue
without paying at 10:10 am, police
said.
61ST PRECINCT
SHEEPSHEAD BAY—HOMECREST—
MANHATTAN BEACH—GRAVESEND
Scoot!
A bully demanded a man’s electric
scooter on E. Seventh Street on
Dec. 11.
The victim told cops that he was
riding his two-wheeler near Quentin
Road at 9 pm when a lout came
up to him and told him, “give me
your f——— scooter.”
The victim gave him his blue Razor
Ice scooter and left the scene.
Cashed out
Police arrested a man who they
said burglarized a commercial
building on Avenue U on Dec. 11.
The suspect allegedly forced his
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way into the building near E. 12th
Street at 9:15 pm through a locked
rear window and stole $4,000 from
the front desk drawer.
Video surveillance caught the
suspect in the act and the police
said they found tools at the scene.
He was arrested on Dec. 13 at 6
pm and brought to the precinct station
house. — Kevin Duggan
62ND PRECINCT
BENSONHURST —BATH BEACH
Pipe down
Police arrested a man who allegedly
broke into a woman’s W. 10th
Street apartment on Dec. 15 and allegedly
threatened to kill her with a
metal pipe.
The woman told cops the man entered
her apartment at Kings Highway
around 6:30 am with a key and
then fl ashed a two-foot-long metal
pipe and told her, “I am going to kill
you.”
Swiped
A no-goodnik took a woman’s
credit and debit card, ID card, and
social security card from her purse
in a Bay Parkway store on Dec. 11.
The theft occurred in the store
between 67th and 68th streets just
after 5 pm.
Lifted
A baddie swiped a woman’s wallet
with her credit and debit cards
inside from her purse in an 86th
Street store on Dec. 13.
The woman was in the store between
Bay 31st and Bay 32nd streets
around 1:50 pm when her purse went
missing, police said.
Swindled
A lout stole $1,100 from a 78th
Street resident on Dec. 15 by promising
to exchange the cash for Chinese
currency.
The woman told offi cers she was
chatting with the perp on WeChat,
a Chinese messaging and payment
app, just before 7:30 pm. The liar
told the woman he could convert
the cash to Chinese currency if she
sent it on a mobile banking app, according
to the report. But once she
sent the cash, the weasel blocked
her and never returned the funds,
police said.
Bad hair day
Bandits broke into two hair salons
and stole cash on Dec. 16. Here’s
the rundown:
• Scoundrels lifted the security
gate of a 20th Avenue salon between
61st and 62nd streets just before 2
am, and crawled underneath it to
break in through an unlocked door
and steal more than $1,880 from a
woman’s purse, according to the report.
• Just a few hours later, a pair of
punks broke into an 18th Avenue salon
between 63rd and 64th streets
and stole $1,000.
The thieves pried the front gate
open and broke a window on the
front door to gain entry just before
3:30 am, cops said. The perps then
stole cash from both the register
and the rear room, according to the
report.
Police did not say whether the
two crimes were linked.
— Julianne McShane
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Two-bit con
A scam artist emailed a bomb
threat to the management offi ce of
a 58th Street warehouse complex
demanding Bitcoins on Dec. 13, as
part of a nationwide con being investigated
by the feds.
A worker at the terminal near
Second Avenue at 1:39 pm received
the email stating that a “mercenary”
had planted a bomb somewhere
in the complex, and was demanding
Bitcoins worth $20,000 in
exchange for not detonating the explosive
device.
Police scoured the facility, but
didn’t fi nd any explosive devices and
later declared the building safe.
Investigators then connected the
bomb threat to a national scheme to
collect cryptocurrency from fearful
Americans, cops said.
Subway rage
Cops arrested a 40-year-old
woman after she allegedly fl ew into
a profanity-laced rage and attacked
another woman aboard a D train at
the 36th Street subway station on
Dec. 11.
The victim told police she accidentally
bumped into the suspect
aboard a Manhattan-bound D train
at the station near Fourth Avenue at
8:30 am, when the lady went berserk
and started screaming at her, before
smacking her with an umbrella and
slashing the woman’s face with her
keys.
Another straphanger moved to
step in on the victim’s behalf, and
then he got keyed too, cops said.
Offi cers cuffed the woman that
day on felony assault charges, according
to police. — Colin Mixson