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Robber snatches phone from woman on Nevins Street
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shoot him while the other thief
took his knapsack, keys, and
a skate tool, before fleeing on
Gold Street towards Nassau
Street at 6:50 p.m.
The victim was able to grab
his phone back from the purloiner
and had an abrasion to
his left arm as a result of the
crime, according to cops.
Juicy loot
Police arrested a man who
they suspect of stealing orange
juice from a Bond Street deli
on May 5.
The suspect allegedly
grabbed a small container of
juice and, when confronted
by the clerk on the way out,
he allegedly said, “I’ll shoot
you,” and fled the store at
State Street at 12:25 a.m.,
police reported.
The victim called the cops
and followed the suspect to the
corner of Livingston Street,
where the Boys in Blue caught
up with him, police said.
Fence hopping
Marauders stole a phone
from a Clinton Street construction
site on April 29.
The pilferers hopped over
the locked fence and scoured
the site near Tillary Street before
bagging the phone, according
to cops.
Bagged
A burglar filched a woman’s
belongings at a State
Street building between April
19 and 22.
The victim left her phone
and laptop inside her book
bag on her chair in the building
between Nevins and Bond
streets before leaving home
for the weekend at 6 p.m. on
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84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
Dumbo–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
A baddie stole a woman’s
phone on Nevins Street on
May 3.
The victim was charging
her phone at the charging
port between Livingston
and Schermerhorn streets
around 10:40 p.m. when the
bandit came up from behind,
snatched her phone from her
hand, and dashed off, according
to cops.
Skater robbed
Two prowlers robbed a man
at a Concord Street skate park
on May 3.
The victim told cops that
one of the louts tried to take
his phone and threatened to
April 19, and when she returned
at 9 a.m. on Monday,
they were both missing, according
to the authorities.
Bike thief
A bandit stole a woman’s
bike at Duffield Street on
April 25.
The victim left her bicycle
unlocked in the shared basement
of the building between
Tillary and Concord streets
at 7 p.m., and when she returned,
some rustler had stolen
it, police reported.
Identity trickster
A fraud stole $8,500 from a
woman through identity theft
at Fulton Street on May 5.
The victim told police that
she first noticed that her phone
number was suspended, and
when she called her phone
company, a rep told her that
someone had transferred her
number to another account
and added three new phones
to it at Bond Street between
11 a.m. and 4 p.m.
She then called her bank,
which told her that the charlatan
had deposited a check
in her name and then withdrawn
$3,500 from the teller
and another 5,000 at another
bank using a forged check,
according to police.
Big money
A sneak tricked a man
into coughing up $250,000
on April 29 at Columbia
Heights.
The victim told cops that
the scoff law hacked his
email and that he then got
a fake email telling him to
send the money to a bank account,
which he did, between
Pierrepont and Clark streets
at 5 p.m.
The victim initially told
cops he asked one of his
employees at his Manhattan
business address to wire
the funds, but later changed
his statement, saying that he
sent it from his personal funds
based at his Brooklyn Heights
address.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Unheard of
Three brutes violently
robbed a man on Willoughby
Street on May 3.
The victim was walking
towards Ashland Place
at 5:10 p.m. when the scofflaws
walked up to him from
behind and punched him in
the face and head, causing him
to fall to the ground, according
to the authorities.
The punks then stole the
man’s headphones and ran towards
Flatbush Avenue Extension,
cops said.
Caned!
A man hit another guy with
a cane on Classon Avenue on
May 3.
The striker whacked the
victim on his arm near Putnam
Avenue at 6 p.m., according
to police.
Band of burglars
Burglars looted a woman’s
home at St. James Place between
May 3 and 5.
The victim went upstate for
the weekend around 3 p.m. and
when she returned to her home
between Greene and Gates
avenues she saw that someone
had broken in through
the first floor and taken several
laptops, a computer, and
a bike before making a run for
it, according to cops.
Lighten up
Thieves stole a man’s lighting
equipment at Gates Avenue
between April 23 and
29.
The victim put his gear into
the trunk of his car parked
near at St. James Place at
around 4 p.m. on April 23,
and when returned six days
later at 11 a.m. to find that
someone had taken his stuff,
police reported.
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A bandit stole a man’s
car on Clinton Avenue on
May 2.
The victim told cops he
left his keys in the ignition
while making a delivery near
Lafayette Avenue at 9 p.m.,
and when he returned, his car
was gone.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens
–Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Baby crime
A punk swiped a highchair
from the stoop of a Third Place
home on April 29.
The theft occurred outside
the home near Court Street
at some point between noon
and 4 p.m., police said.
Hairy situation
A thief stole an estimated
$580 worth of shaving cartridges
from a Smith Street
store on May 2.
The theft occurred at the
store near President Street just
after 7 p.m., police said.
Car thief
A criminal stole a woman’s
2007 Ford Focus from
its Third Place parking spot
at some point between May
3 and 4.
The woman told police she
parked the vehicle between
Henry and Clinton streets at 7
p.m. on May 3, and returned
at 9 a.m. the next day to find
an empty spot, police said,
adding that the perp found the
woman’s car keys that she had
dropped in the area.
Electric steal
A brute broke into a Verona
Street warehouse and
stole thousands worth of
electronics and a safe with
more than $3,000 cash inside
at some point between
May 3 and 4.
The break-in and theft
occurred at the warehouse
at Richards Street between
7:15 p.m. on May 3 and 1:40
p.m. the next day, police said,
adding that the thief stole a
desktop, an iPod, and a desktop
monitor, along with the
safe.
Purse snatcher
A crook stole a pricey purse
from a Smith Street store on
May 4.
The theft occurred at the
store at Butler Street just before
6 p.m., police said.
Phone a friend
A nogoodnik stole an iPhone
from outside a Beard
Street store on May 5.
The theft occurred from
a bench outside the store at
Otsego Street at 12:15 a.m.,
according to cops.
Punch happy
Police arrested a man who
they say punched another man
in the face, causing a small
cut, on Congress Street on
May 6.
The alleged assault occurred
between Henry and
Hicks streets just before 6:30
p.m., police said, adding that
officers arrested the man at
the scene.
— Julianne McShane
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Glass hole
Cops have given up the hunt
for the jerk who smashed a
woman’s car window on Prospect
Place on April 29.
The victim told police she
left her four-door between
Flatbush and Carlton avenues
at 1 a.m., and returned that
evening to find some goon had
gone ham on a rear passenger
side window, costing her
about $200 in damages.
No parking
Investigators are calling
off the search for a thief who
looted the glove box of an elderly
woman’s car on Ninth
Street on April 30, taking
her handicapped parking
placard.
The victim, 71, told police
she left her car between Sixth
and Seventh avenues at noon,
and returned four hours later
to find her parking placard,
along with $10 and her registration,
stolen.
Oh, baby!
A thief stole packages containing
baby supplies from a
St. Marks Avenue home on
April 26.
The victim told police that
a thief nabbed her delivery of
baby food and clothing from
her home between Fifth and
Sixth avenues sometime after
5 p.m.
Chip and dip
Cops are throwing up their
hands in the search for the
reckless driver who smashed
into a man’s car on Flatbush
Avenue on April 29, before
peeling off.
The victim told police he
was sitting in his parked car
between Bergen Street and
Sixth Avenue at 10:17 a.m.
when wacko side swiped him
and then sped off.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–
Windsor Terrace
Connect four
Cops are hunting the four
fiends who they say beat and
robbed a man on 57th Street
on April 30, taking his phone
and $210.
The victim told police the
crooks attacked him between
Third and Fourth avenues at
6 am, swinging at him with a
glass bottle, and pummeling
him with a flurry of blows, before
reaching into his pockets
and nabbing his valuables.
E you later
Some jerk rode off with a
man’s E-bike he parked on
Prospect Park Southwest on
April 30.
The victim told police he
left his bike between 10th and
11th avenues at 6:30 pm, and
returned a half-hour later to
find his pricey ride stolen.
In the weeds
Police cuffed a man allegedly
in possession of a small
fortune’s worth of weed and
marijuana oils in his car on
60th Street on May 1.
The arresting officer
claims he spotted the suspect
changing lanes without
signaling near Fourth Avenue
at 12:50 am, when he pulled
over the man’s car and spotted
some weed resting in plain
view within the vehicle’s center
cup holder.
Upon further inspection,
the cop found a whopping
three pounds of marijuana
and 25 boxes of oils,
and arrested the suspect on
a felony possession charge,
cops said.
— Colin Mixson
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