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Cops: Man hits guy with umbrella
% 84TH PRECINCT
Brooklyn Heights–
Dumbo–Boerum Hill–
Downtown
Police arrested a man who
they suspect of allegedly hitting
another man with an umbrella
on Livingston Street on
May 8.
The victim sustained lacerations
on his arm and knees,
as well as a bruise on his ear,
after the two got into an argument
on the train, at the corner
of Bond Street, around 6:30
a.m., according to police.
Police arrested the suspect
and paramedics rushed the
victim to Cobble Hill hospital,
according to the authorities.
Teen bruisers
Two teens assaulted a subway
conductor at a Jay Street
subway station on May 10.
The two 13-year-old boys
asked the conductor for directions
while he was in the
train at Willoughby Street
around 4:30 p.m., according
to police.
When the victim turned
his head, one of the delinquents
punched him in the
face, before they both fled up
the stairs and out of sight, according
to cops.
Fraudster
A charlatan stole $3,500
from a woman with a fraudulent
credit card at Schermer-
horn Street between April 29
and May 8.
The hoaxer opened up a
credit card in the victim’s
name and went on a shopping
spree at an Atlantic
Avenue department store
between Clinton and Court
Streets sometime between 6
p.m. on April 29 and 2 p.m.
about a week later.
Locker buster
A thief stole a man’s valuables
at an Atlantic Avenue
gym on May 8.
The victim told cops that
he left his phone, bank cards,
and MetroCard in his locked
locker at the fitness center
between Court Street and
Boerum Place at 10 a.m. But
when he returned at 2 p.m., he
discovered someone had taken
his stuff, he told police.
Handbag thief
A punk stole a woman’s
handbag she forgot at a Jay
Street subway station on
May 9.
The victim told cops she
was forgot her bag on a bench
at the station near Willoughby
Street when she boarded the
train at 10:40 p.m.
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She realized that she’d forgotten
it, and got off at the
next stop to go back to the
station, police said. When she
got there about 20 minutes
later, someone had taken it,
according to cops.
88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Cab crook
A ne’er-do-well attacked
and robbed a cab driver on
Flatbush Avenue on May 6.
The victim told cops that
he and the belligerent bruiser
got into a squabble over cab
fare between Fulton Street and
Lafayette Avenue at 5:45 p.m.,
and that the baddie pulled his
navigation device from his
dashboard and pushed him
to the ground
The lout then took the cab
driver’s car keys and made a
run for it, cops said.
Cyclist tackler
Police arrested a teen who
they say violently robbed a
bike courier on Classon Avenue
on May 8.
The 14-year-old suspect allegedly
pushed the 17-year-old
victim off of his bike while
he was trying to deliver food
near Fulton Street just after
10 p.m., snatching the food
and making a run for it, police
reported.
Cops then arrested the suspect
at Lafayette Avenue, between
Tompkins and Marcy
avenues some 20 minutes
later, cops said.
Group robbery
Three villains robbed two
teens at the Nevins Street train
station on May 9.
One 14-year-old victim told
cops that he was at the station
near Flatbush Avenue at
4:30 p.m. when the baddies
walked up to them and demanded
that they hand over
their cellphones, with one nogoodnik
threatening he had
a knife.
The rogues took the kids’
phones, MetroCard, and college
identification before
fleeing the scene, officers
reported.
Pervy purloiners
Two dirtbags robbed and
sexually assaulted a woman on
Steuben Street on May 9.
The victim was walking
home from a friend’s house
when the dirtbags walked
up to her, asking her for the
door code of a building between
Park and Myrtle avenues
at 2:30 a.m., according
to police.
When she told them she
didn’t know, the reprobates
snatched her bag and grabbed
her by her vagina before making
a run for it towards Park
Avenue, cops said.
Park mugger
A woman sustained bruised
knees and hands after two
louts mugged her in Fort
Greene Park on May 9.
The victim told cops she
was between DeKalb and
Myrtle avenues, just before
midnight when the two
wretches walked up behind
her, pushed her to the ground,
and grabbed her tote bag, before
making a run for it.
A stone’s throw
A scalawag threw a rock
through a Fulton Street restaurant
on May 8, injuring
a man.
An unknown bruiser outside
the eatery near Clinton
Avenue threw the rock inside
the kitchen at 7:30 p.m., hitting
the victim in the back of the
head, according to police.
Bottle bruiser
Police arrested a man for
allegedly throwing a bottle at
a woman in a Myrtle Avenue
playground on May 11.
The victim told cops that
she had an argument with the
suspect and that he allegedly
threw a bottle at her face, causing
bruising, swelling and
strong pain, near N. Portland
Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
Carroll Gardens
–Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Package steal
A nogoodnik stole a package
with clothes inside from
a Huntington Street stoop on
May 11.
The theft occurred between
Clinton and Court streets at
some point between 2:50 and
5:30 p.m., police reported.
Biked away
A punk stole a bike parked
on Clinton Street at some point
between May 5 and 6.
The theft occurred between
Clinton and Court streets at
some point between 4 p.m.
on May 5 and 8 a.m. the next
day, police said, adding that
the crook left behind the bike
lock and wheel.
Pocket theft
A crook stole a President
Street man’s wallet with seven
debit and credit cards inside
from his pants pocket on May
10, police said.
The theft occurred at some
point between 9:30 and 10
a.m., when the man returned
to his home between Smith
and Hoyt streets and realized
the wallet was missing, according
to the report.
Into the night
A punk stole a bike parked
on Smith Street on May 10.
The theft occurred at Degraw
Street at some point between
8:30 and 9:30 p.m., according
to authorities
Face time
A criminal grabbed a man’s
face, causing a small laceration,
on Dwight Street on
May 12.
The assault occurred at
Wolcott Street just before
4:30 p.m., police said.
— Julianne McShane
78TH PRECINCT
Park Slope
Helter shelter
Cops arrested two women
for attacking another woman
inside an Eighth Avenue
homeless shelter on May 8.
The victim told police she
was arguing with the suspects
over borrowed money inside a
second-floor bathroom inside
the refuge between between
15th and 14th avenues at 10:30
pm, when the women attacked
her, punching her in the face
and scratching her arm.
Both suspects were cuffed
that day on misdemeanor assault
charges, cops said.
Hacked!
Some thief made off with
the computer inside a kiosk at
a Nevins Street public housing
complex on May 2.
A worker for the city’s
Housing Authority told police
someone managed to
sneak into the locked kiosk
at the complext between Baltic
and Wyckoff streets at
around 4:20 pm, when they
nabbed the $1,000 computer
and fled.
No arrests have been made
in the case, which has been
closed, according to police.
Big bully
Cops have given up the
hunt for the creep who followed
and then attacked a 13-
year-old boy on Bergen Street
on May 9.
The victim told police the
35-year-old fiend followed
him from school to his bus
stop near Fifth Avenue at 2:35
pm, when he started shouting
at the boy and shoved him.
The boy was not injured,
cops said.
Wheel jerk
Police have called off the
search for the vandal who
busted up a woman’s car on
Third Street on May 9.
The victim told police she
spotted the suspect pounding
on the hood of her car she
parked near Third Avenue at
1:40 pm, leaving dents.
Drunk
Cops busted a 72-yearold
man for allegedly driving
drunk on Fifth Avenue
on May 10.
A witness told police the
suspect smashed into his car
near Carroll Street at 5:10 pm,
and that he had to remove the
man’s keys from the ignition to
prevent him from fleeing.
The arresting officer
claimed the man was incapable
of coherent speech,
and blew well over the legal
limit on a Breathalyzer test,
cops said.
72ND PRECINCT
Sunset Park–
Windsor Terrace
Smash bro
Cops are looking for the
vandal who smashed a guy’s
car window on 56th Street on
May 4.
The victim told police he
left his car parked between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
at 7 a.m., and returned that
evening to find his driver-side
window smashed.
Mr. Knife Guy
A knife-wielding crook
robbed a teenager at the
25th Street subway station
on May 5.
The victim, 16, told police
the thief pulled the knife
on him inside a Manhattanbound
R train at 11:45 a.m.
“You know the drill,” the
bandit growled.
The kid forked over his iPhone
7, Bose headphones, and
student MetroCard, and the
baddie fled into the station,
according to police.
So-nata
A thief drove off with a
woman’s 2011 Hyundai Sonata
her daughter left on 46th
Street on May 9.
The victim told police her
kid left the car parked near
Fourth Avenue — key in the
glove box — at 8:30 p.m., but
discovered her four-door stolen
the next morning.
Lit
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
having an illegal knife
on 55th Street on May 8.
The arresting officer
claimed he pulled the suspect
over near Fourth Avenue
after spotting him driving
with a busted headlight at
12:50 am, when he detected
a lit joint burning in the center
console.
The cop also discovered
an open container of whiskey
and a large knife tucked
underneath the armrest of the
seat. — Colin Mixson
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