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Crooks use driver’s phone to steal his weekly wages
Nasty robbers
Two villians robbed a
man on Nassau Street on
April 27.
The scoundrels announced
to the victim, “We gonna
rob you,” as he walked toward
Bridge and Duffield
Street at 8:40 p.m., according
to police.
The crooks punched the
victim and threw him to the
ground before they grabbed
his iPhone and electric cigarette,
police said.
—Natallie Rocha
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Unfair fight
Police arrested a man who
they suspect of viscously
punching a man on Clinton
Avenue on April 24.
The 72-year-old victim was
in his apartment near Lafayette
Avenue at 11:15 a.m. when
the suspect busted in, demanding
$100, police said.
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When the victim refused,
the man allegedly punched
him in the face and mouth,
knocking him unconscious,
and then dragged him inside
the apartment, which caused
a laceration to the left cheek,
cops said.
The Boys in Blue caught up
with the 24-year-old suspect
the next day at 8 a.m., according
to the authorities.
The victim sustained some
40 stitches to his face and
mouth, polic reported.
Bandit boozer
A baddie drank a bottle
of whisky from a woman’s
apartment on S. Elliott Place
on April 18.
The victim told cops she
heard the lout and saw him on
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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
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Robbers stole money from
a ride-share driver on Prince
Street on April 22.
The bad guys were in the
car between Gold and Tillary
streets at 11 p.m. when one
grabbed the driver’s phone and
accessed his weekly earnings,
then syphoned the money to
his own bank account, police
said.
Meanwhile, the second
scoundrel prevented the victim
from retrieving his phone
before the two baddies fled
the vehicle, cops said.
Slashed
Police arrested two men
who they say cut a person on
Furman Street on April 23.
The two men allegedly
slashed the victim’s right hand
with a knife and then punched
and kicked the victim near
Brooklyn Bridge Park around
5:45 p.m., said cops.
All just a scam
A con artist scammed
more than $18,000 from a
man near Livingston Street
on April 25.
The malefactor called the
victim at 10:45 a.m. near
Smith Street and Boerum
Place and posed as a representative
from the social security
office, police said.
According to police, the
wretch told the victim they
needed to pay or else U.S. marshalls
would arrest them.
The victim mailed $18,800
in cash to an address in Texas
before realizing it was a scam,
cops said.
Bus burglar
A rat swiped cash from a
person riding a bus on Smith
Street on April 27.
The punk snatched the
money out of the victim’s
hand and ran off the bus down
Schermerhorn Street around
10 p.m., police said.
the fire escape of her apartment
between DeKalb Avenue
and Fulton Street around
2:30 p.m.
When she came home at
around 10 a.m. the next day,
she found that someone had
taken a bottle of Scotch whisky
and downed the booze before
escaping through the fire escape
window and leaving the
empty bottle, said cops.
Crooked cruiser
A scoundrel stole a car on
Fulton Street on April 24.
The malefactor broke into
the car parked near Clermont
Avenue before 3:30 p.m. and
used a spare key in the glove
compartment to speed off, according
to police.
The car was equipped with
a navigation system, and police
tracked down the vehicle
to Hart Street between Lewis
Avenue and Marcus Garvey
Boulevard a half an hour later,
cops said.
The vehicle’s passengerside
window was broken and
the thief also bagged a laptop
and a toolbox, according to
the authorities.
Sneaky scofflaw
A thief took a woman’s bike
from inside a lobby at Fulton
Street apartment building on
April 25.
The good-for-nothing used
a MetroCard or bank card to
crack the lock to the door between
Washington Avenue
and St. James Place at 2:30
a.m. and took the bike, according
to police.
The nogoodnik also opened
a package, but left it behind,
cops said.
Radio pirate
A louse looted a man’s
car on Park Avenue on April
24.
The cur busted the window
of the car parked near Clinton
Avenue sometime between 7
a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and stole
its radio and speakers before
making a run for it, accord-
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Sneaker sneak
A scofflaw stole 50 pairs of
sneakers from a storage unit
on Hall Street sometime between
April 16 and 25.
The victim told cops he
left his shoe collection at the
locker near Park Avenue on
4 p.m. on April 16, and when
he returned at 4 p.m. a little
over a week later, they were
gone, without damage.
— Kevin Duggan
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Illicit indulgence
Police cuffed a 57-yearold
man for allegedly looting
a Fifth Avenue house of
worship through the course of
two April 16 break-ins, taking
an estimated $1,600 worth of
electronics.
The suspect first entered
the church between Warren
and Baltic streets through a
side entrance at 10:23 p.m.,
when he proceeded to an office
there and nabbed an Apple
laptop, before leaving,
cops said.
But the man returned at
midnight, this time using a
wooden stick to force his way
into the building, before taking
a 32-inch television, according
to police.
At some point during the
burglary, a witness told police
he spotted the suspect prowling
around with a black garbage
bag, and responding officers
caught the man that night
on a felony burglary charge,
cops said.
Free to hate
Cops have given up the
hunt for the creep who called
an black man a slur on Ninth
Street on April 12.
The victim told police that,
without any apparent reason,
the fiend insulted him outside
a bagel spot between
Fourth and Fifth avenues at
12:50 p.m., using an Italian
slur for denigrating African
Americans.
Low gravity
Police arrested a man who
they claim was spotted with an
illegal gravity knife on Nevins
Street on April 17.
The arresting office said
he spotted the suspect near
Wyckoff Street with the illicit
blade at 1:05 p.m., according
to police.
Work bites
Cops cuffed a 45-year-old
woman for allegedly biting a
paramedic inside an Eighth
Avenue women’s shelter on
April 17.
The medic told police that
he was attempting to treat the
suspect — who was considered
by police as an emotionally
disturbed person at
the time of the incident —
at the shelter between 14th
and 15th streets at 2:30 p.m.
when she chomped down on
his hand.
The woman was arrested
that day on a felony assault
charge, cops said.
Dirty laundry
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
nabbing $72 worth
of laundry detergent from a
Fifth Avenue grocery store
on April 18.
An employee told police
the suspect was spotted taking
six bottles of Tide detergent
from the store between
Lincoln and Berkeley places
at 12:25 p.m., before skipping
past the register with his illgotten
soap.
When officers arrived to
cuff him, the suspect was
found in possession of a crack
pipe caked in heroin residue,
according to police.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–
Windsor Terrace
Game over
A gunman stole $7,500
from a man on 64th Street
on April 22.
The victim told police he’d
arranged to meet up with the
thief in order to purchase a
small fortune’s worth of digital
content for an online video
game between Fourth and
Fifth avenues at 9:15 p.m.,
but that after he handed over
the cash, the crook stuck a
gun in his face and told him
to scram.
Apple picking
A thief beat and robbed a
man on 51st Street on April 22,
taking his iPhone and $50.
The victim told police the
crook asked him to spare some
cash near Sixth Avenue at 4:30
a.m., and then attacked when
he refused, kicking him in the
leg, before taking his valuables.
Glass hole
Some jerk busted the window
of a man’s car he parked
on 55th Street on April 22.
The victim told police he
left his 2014 Toyota Sienna
near Fifth Avenue at 7 p.m.,
and returned the next morning
to find a passenger window
shattered.
Crack down
Cops arrested a 27-year-old
man after allegedly nabbing
10-ounces of crack cocaine
from his 62nd Street apartment
on April 29.
Officers executing a search
warrant of the suspect’s home
between Second and Third
avenues uncovered the stash
of narcotics at 6:45 a.m., and
charged him with a felony
drug charge, according to
authorities.
Cash grab
Police are looking for the
fiends who beat and robbed a
man inside a Fourth Avenue
building on April 28.
The victim told police he
met the crooks — two men and
a woman — at the building
between 56th and 57th streets
at 4:30 a.m., when the guys
grabbed him and threw him
to the ground, while the lady
started stomping on him.
The thieves took $170 off
the victim, before fleeing
down Fourth Avenue towards
Bay Ridge, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
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