78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Special delivery
Cops arrested a 30-year-old
woman accused of sending herself
eight ounces of cocaine through the
mail to her Carroll Street heating
supply shop on Jan. 24.
The suspect accepted a package
addressed and delivered to herself
at the store between Third Avenue
and Nevins Street at 12:10 pm, and
police cuffed her that day on a felony
possession charge, cops said.
Candy man
Police have given up searching
for the candy salesmen who
scammed a guy at Atlantic Terminal
on Jan. 23.
The victim told police he exchanged
cash for the confections
with the candy crook inside the subway
station near Flatbush Avenue
at 5:05 pm.
But there was a problem — the
victim handed the candy man a
whopping heap of cash, and was
owed $120 in change, according to
the report. Instead, the sweets scammer
scampered off with the victim’s
dough, police said.
Rough commute
Cops have called off the hunt for
the creep who threatened a woman’s
life on a 2 train at Grand Army
Plaza on Jan. 23.
The victim told police she became
embroiled in a shouting match with
the wacko as her train approached
the station near Flatbush Avenue at
5:45 pm, and claims the miscreant
followed her after she disembarked,
saying she knows where she lives,
where she works, and that she won’t
be safe.
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SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Good deed punished
Cops arrested a man for allegedly
attacking paramedics in a
drunken rage aboard an ambulance
on Eighth Avenue on Feb. 2.
The victim told police he was
treating the suspect for intoxication
in the vehicle between 44th and
45th streets at 6:37 pm, when the guy
kicked him in the knee and spit on
him.
The suspect was taken to Lutheran
Medical Center, and cops arrested
him that night on a felony assault
charge, according to police.
Bad apples
Police are hunting for the two
crooks that beat and robbed a man
on 17th Street on Feb. 4, taking his
iPhone 7.
The victim told police the crooks
jumped him near Fourth Avenue
at 3:05 pm, with one of them hurling
him to the pavement, while the
other cold-cocked him, before they
took his pricey smartphone and
fl ed.
Keyed
Cops have given up the hunt for
the jerk wanted for keying a guy’s
car on 45th Street on Jan. 30.
The victim told police he parked
his brand-spanking-new 2019 Toyota
between Second and Third avenues
at 11:30 pm, and returned about
25 minutes later to fi nd a nasty gash
running down the passenger side of
his car.
Crime of opportunity
Police are searching for the thief
who they said looted a woman’s car
she left unlocked on 59th Street on
Feb. 3.
The victim told police she parked
her van between Fourth and Fifth
avenues at 4:38 pm, and returned
a little more than one hour later to
fi nd her bag, which contained more
than $800 and credits cards, had
been nabbed.
A transit worker later recovered
the woman’s purse at the 53rd Street
R train station, sans cash and cards,
cops said. — Colin Mixson
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CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Electric steal
A nogoodnik stole electronics
from a Bond Street apartment on
Feb. 3.
The thief broke into the woman’s
abode between Butler and Douglass
streets at some point between 1 pm
and 9:30 pm and walked off with
three “hoverboards,” a PS4, and
a pink HP laptop, she told police,
adding that she believed the baddie
was someone who had access to her
apartment.
Time for detention
A punk nabbed $216 from a woman’s
bag inside a public school offi ce
on Hoyt Street on Feb. 1.
The victim told authorities that
the crook lifted the cash from her
bag that was inside an unsecured
room at the school between Union
and President streets at some point
between 2:40 pm and 7:30 pm.
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Swiped overnight
A looter lifted cash, tools, and
a briefcase from a man’s gray 2017
Jeep Wrangler parked on Van Brunt
Street sometime between Jan. 25
and 26, the owner of the vehicle told
police on Feb. 2.
The man told police the crook
stole the goods from his vehicle he
left near Commerce Street, adding
that there was no damage to his
car.
Package pilfered
A baddie stole a package from a
building on Hoyt Street sometime
between Oct. 27 and Nov. 10, the
owner told police on Feb. 4.
The woman reported that the
lout swiped her property from her
front door in the unsecured hallway
of her building between Warren and
Baltic streets.
Plates purloined
A thief stole license plates off
a car on Van Brunt Street at some
point between Nov. 16 and Feb. 2,
the car owner reported to police on
Feb. 5.
The crook stole the plates off of
the vehicle at its parking spot between
Bowne and Summit streets,
according to police.
— Natallie Rocha
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FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Subway snake
A sneak snatched a woman’s
phone out of her hand while on a
subway near Lafayette Avenue on
Feb. 3, police said.
The woman told cops she was on
the G train near Classon Avenue at
about 3 am when the cur grabbed
her iPhone X from her and then
hopped out of the train and fl ed out
of the station, according to authorities.
Broken doors
Cops cuffed a man on Feb. 1 for
breaking into a guy’s Fulton Street
apartment.
The suspect kicked down the victim’s
door near Cumberland Street
at about 11:30 pm, damaging the
door, according to authorities.
Cup crook
Some baddie stole cups from a
woman’s apartment on Lefferts
Place sometime between Jan. 22 and
Feb. 3, police said.
The nogoodnik entered the building
near Grand Avenue behind another
resident and swiped the copper
mugs, according to authorities.
Bar fi ght
A crook stole a woman’s bag
while she was sitting at a bar on
Flatbush Avenue Extension on Jan.
28, police said.
The 28-year-old woman told cops
she was at the bar near Fulton Street
at about 3:30 pm when some baddie
snatched her bag with her debit
card, identifi cation card, health insurance
card, and cash inside it, offi
cials said.
Late-night snacks
A knave charged a guy’s credit
card at a Fulton Street restaurant
on Feb. 3, police said.
The victim told police he had left
his credit card at the diner near Vanderbilt
Avenue after eating there at
about 4:40 am and some jerk swiped
his card without his permission, according
to authorities.
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Street attack
A ruffi an pushed a teen to the
ground and stole his phone and
cash on Tillary Street on Feb. 1, police
said.
The 16-year-old victim told cops
he was walking near Jay Street under
some scaffolding at about 5 pm
when the tough pushed him to the
ground and grabbed his Samsung
Galaxy phone and cash from his
pocket, and then ran off, according
to authorities.
Data breach
A criminal swiped a guy’s laptop
and other items from his Washington
Street apartment on Jan. 28, police
said.
The victim told cops he had left
his apartment at about 11 am and
when he returned an hour later noticed
some cur had pried open his
front door near Water Street, and
ran out with his laptop, backpack,
passport, and wallet, according to
authorities.
Big break
Some nogoodnik broke into a
Front Street building on Jan. 31, police
said.
The crook broke into the offi ce
building near the Brooklyn Bridge
at about 1:30 am, causing damage
to the window, and swiped laptops,
a camera, a passport, a checkbook
and a camera lens, according to authorities.
— Julianne Cuba