78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Get your kicks
Cops busted an alleged thief suspected
of nabbing footwear and luggage
from an Atlantic Avenue retailer
on Feb. 11.
A security guard told police the
48-year-old suspect was spotted
grabbing nine pairs of shoes and a
bag from the store near Flatbush Avenue
at 2:45 pm, when he attempted
to slink through a fi re exit without
paying for his ill-gotten kicks.
Police cuffed the man that day,
slapping him with a misdemeanor
larceny charge, cops said.
Feeling glue
Investigators have given up the
hunt for the miscreant who fi lled a
deadbolt lock leading into a woman’s
Warren Street apartment with
glue on Feb. 11.
The victim told police she returned
to her home between Third
and Fourth avenues at 5:10 pm to
fi nd her key wouldn’t fi t into her
lock, and quickly realized she’d
been had by some glue-squirting
vandal.
Dinner’s cooked
Police cuffed a man suspected of
taking an estimated $180 worth of
groceries from a Third Street grocery
store on Feb. 16.
An employee told police the
29-year-old suspect fi lled his bags
with a small fortune in food stuff
at the market near Third Avenue at
6:25 pm, before dashing past the register
without paying.
Cops busted the suspect that day,
charging him with misdemeanor
larceny, cops said.
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Have a glass
Investigators arrested a woman
suspected of beating her ex-boyfriend
with a glass bottle inside a
Fourth Avenue doughnut store on
Feb. 19.
The victim told police he was inside
the pastry shop between 24th
and 25th streets at 12:05 pm when
the suspect smashed the bottle over
his face, leaving him with cuts on
his face and hand.
The victim was taken to Lutheran
Hospital for treatment, and
police tracked down the suspect the
next day, charging her with felony
assault, cops said.
Razor sharp
Cops cuffed two men for allegedly
slashing a guy and beating his
friend amid a brutal attempted robbery
on Fourth Avenue on Feb. 24.
The victims told police the suspects,
along with another man,
jumped them as they exited a diner
between 60th and 61st streets at 4:30
pm, shoving them to the ground,
before slashing one of them on the
hand with a box cutter.
Offi cers managed to track down
two suspects, charging them with
felony robbery, but a third remains
on the lam, cops said.
Third strike
Police busted a 23-year-old man
after he allegedly attempted to burgle
a woman’s 17th Street home —
for the third time — on Feb. 22.
The victim told police the suspect
tried to open a basement window
leading into her home between
10th and 11th avenues at 5:40 pm, but
took off after about 10 minutes.
She claims the same guy was
spotted on her property twice prior,
on Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, and offered to
provide police video evidence for
each incident, cops said.
Offi cers cuffed the suspect on
Feb. 23, charging him with felony
burglary, according to police.
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— Colin Mixson
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Have a slice of that!
A thief stole pizza from a delivery
man at S. Elliot Place on Feb. 17.
The victim told cops that he was
delivering the pies to the address between
Hanson Place and S. Portland
Avenue at 11:45 pm when the malefactor
paid him what looked like a
fake $100 bill.
When the victim gave back the
fraudulent currency, the lout pulled
out a black object that the victim assumed
was a gun and demanded all
the delivery man’s change in addition
to the purloined pies, cops said.
A cutting case
Two louts violently robbed a teen
on Monument Walk on Feb. 18.
The victim told cops he was near
Navy Street at 9:45 pm when the delinquent
duo approached him, and
one of them demanded he hand over
all of his money or they would shoot
him.
One of the brutes then bashed
the victim in the back of the head
with a blunt object, and they took
$200 from him before making a run
for it, according to cops.
Stabbed
A man stabbed a guy in the face
on Saint Edwards Street on Feb. 24.
The victim told police he and the
attacker had an argument about
drugs earlier in the day, and when
the victim encountered the man,
along with a woman, near Myrtle
Avenue at 4:50 am, they got into a
dispute, which escalated when the
brute stabbed the man in the face,
according to police.
The attacker and woman then
fl ed the scene, and offi cers brought
the victim to Methodist Hospital,
cops said.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Subway scoundrel
Cops cuffed a woman for allegedly
giving false identifi cation after
she was caught fare beating at the
Hoyt Street subway station on Feb.
19.
Police said offi cers noticed the
woman crawling under a turnstile
to avoid paying the fare at the station
near Schermerhorn Street at
2:05 am, and stopped her.
When they questioned her, she
gave two different birth dates, addresses,
and one different fi rst
name, according to authorities.
The suspect then made a run for
it with cops in pursuit, one of whom
injured his forehead while trying to
subdue the suspect, who allegedly
refused to be cuffed and struggled
with cops, police said.
Commercial robber
A looter broke into a commercial
building on Court Street sometime
overnight on Feb. 23 and rifl ed
through desks.
The burglar got into the premises
near Schermerhorn Street
sometime between 11:30 pm and
12:15 am, despite a locked door, and
went through desks, taking miscellaneous
items, according to cops.
Coin collector
A baddie stole $400 worth of valuable
coins from a man’s home on
Livingston Street on Feb. 24.
The victim told police someone
broke the panel of his hallway door
between Court Street and Boerum
Place sometime between 4 and 6:30
am, and absconded with his coins.
Luxury loot
A luxury lout used a man’s bank
cards to shop at a pricey store on
Bond Street between Feb. 13 and 15.
The victim’s bank notifi ed him
that the sneak had made two unauthorized
charges on his cards,
which he had in his possession at
the time, one at a Manhattan department
store and another at a Brooklyn
designer fashion store near Livingston
Street, spending more than
$1,800 between Feb. 13 at 2 pm and
Feb. 15 at 4 pm.
Watch out!
A sneak stole pricey watches
from a woman’s Remsen Street
home that was being renovated between
June 30, 2018, and Feb. 14.
The victim told cops that she is
currently having work done at her
house between Henry and Hicks
streets, and has a house keeper living
there, who has access to the
home and allows workers to do their
jobs freely.
The victim said she does not
live full time at the house during
the renovation, and that multiple
workers had access to the bedroom,
where someone stole watches worth
$20,000. — Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Double theft
A thief stole a Second Place resident’s
designer wallet — and used
the four credit cards inside to buy
an iPhone for more than $1,300, police
said.
The woman, who lives between
Henry and Clinton streets, realized
that her goods were gone — along
with two MetroCards and a gift card
inside — at around 6 pm on Feb. 23,
when she got an alert that someone
had used her credit card to buy the
iPhone, police said.
Snack attack
Someone swiped snacks and a
pair of gloves from a Court Street
store on Feb. 19.
The incident occurred at the
store at Pacifi c Street at around 5
pm, police said, adding that the man
became disorderly and began kicking
objects as he left the store.
Didn’t get far
Police arrested a man who they
said stole an estimated $300 worth
of goods from a Beard Street store
on Feb. 21.
Offi cers arrested the man on Columbia
Street between Bush and
Mill streets at around 2 pm, according
to the report.
— Julianne McShane