78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Sneaker
Cops busted a man who they said
tried to steal shoes from a Flatbush
Avenue boutique on Feb. 27.
An employee told police the suspect
snagged several men’s sneakers
from the store between Fourth
and Atlantic avenues at 5:40 pm, before
skipping past the registers with
his ill-gotten footwear.
Police cuffed the man that day
on a misdemeanor larceny charge,
cops said.
No drill
Police arrested a 64-year-old man
allegedly caught looting a Fifth
Street construction site on Feb. 27.
The suspect crept into the worksite
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
at 1:30 pm and took a drill, cops
said.
Cops busted the man that day on
a felony burglary charge, according
to police.
Bogus Benjamin
Cops have given up the hunt for
the forger who attempted to buy food
at a Fifth Avenue taco joint with bogus
cash on Feb. 27.
An employee at the store between
St. Marks Place and Warren Street
told police the guy attempted to buy
a meal with a fake $100 at 3:50 pm.
The worker held on to the bogus
bill, and didn’t hand over any food,
but police have closed the case without
any arrests, cops said.
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
E-thief
A thief made off with a woman’s
electric bike she parked on Windsor
Place sometime overnight on
March 3.
The victim told police she locked
up her bike between Eighth Avenue
and Prospect Park West at 7 pm, and
returned the following evening to
fi nd her pricey Urban Arrow E-bike
stolen.
Glocked
A gunman pistol-whipped a man
on 55th Street on March 6.
The victim told police he was
attempting to break up a fi ght between
Seventh and Eighth avenues
at 7:50 pm, when one of the brawlers
brandished a silver fi rearm and
cracked him with it over the mouth,
chipping his tooth.
Bat beatdown
Four brutes beat a man outside
of a Third Avenue nightclub with a
baseball bat on March 11.
The victim told police he was
leaving the bar between 50th and
51st streets at 2:30 am, when one of
the fi ends suddenly smacked him
over the head with a Louisville
slugger, while his buddies started
stomping on him.
Bad company
A thief looted a woman’s 62nd
Street apartment on March 8, taking
her iPhone, jewelry, and passport
. A roommate told police she
heard the suspect sneak into their
home near Fourth Avenue at 3 am,
before ransacking the victim’s bedroom
and fl eeing with an estimated
$500 worth of loot. — Colin Mixson
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Blinged out
A crook stole an estimated $1,960
worth of jewelry from a Court Street
store at some point between March
5 and March 6.
The incident occurred at the
store between Warren and Baltic
streets between 4 pm on March 5
and 1 pm the next day, police said.
What a tool
A punk stole $5,600 worth of tools
from a Sackett Street construction
site at sometime overnight on
March 7.
The incident occurred from
the site between Court and Smith
streets at some point between 3:30
pm on March 7 and 2 am the next
day, cops said.
Well-fed crook
Cops cuffed a woman who they
said stole a package of prepared
food that was delivered to a Second
Street home on March 9.
The alleged theft occurred from
the home between Court and Smith
streets at some point between 4:50
pm and 6:30 pm, police said.
Drugstore haul
Police arrested a man who allegedly
stole makeup, bug spray, toothpaste,
and gum from a Smith Street
store on March 11.
The alleged theft occurred
around 12:20 pm at the store near
Warren Street, according to police,
who added that the man had an outstanding
warrant.
— Julianne McShane
COURIER L 8 IFE, MARCH 15–21, 2019 PS
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
This is not a drill
A malefactor tried to burgle a
woman’s Clinton Avenue home on
March 6.
The victim told cops she was sitting
in the living room of her home
near Gates Avenue at 2:15 pm using
her computer when she heard a
noise behind her.
She turned around to see an intruder
holding a screwdriver, who
then ran out of the apartment, apparently
without taking anything,
according to police.
Bunch of tools
Robbers stole equipment from
cars on Flushing Avenue on March
7.
Surveillance cameras caught the
louts breaking the keyhole of one of
the cars parked between N. Oxford
and Cumberland streets just after
12:45 pm, but not taking anything,
and then opening another car and
taking two drills and a meter tool,
cops reported.
Car buster
A prowler looted a woman’s car
on S. Elliot Place on March 7.
The victim left the car parked between
S. Portland and Hanson Place
at 7 am, and when she returned just
before 11 pm, she saw that the door
was ajar and that someone had
taken cash and scattered the stuff
from the glove compartment all
over the front seat, she told police.
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Whacked
A lout attacked and robbed a
woman on State Street on March 5.
The victim told cops that the
ne’er-do-well took her bag and then
whacked her in the head with it, between
Bond and Nevins streets at
11:10 pm.
Daytime purloiner
A burglar looted a woman’s home
on Livingston Street on March 6.
The cur took her house keys from
her mailbox and got into the apartment
between Court and Clinton
streets at sometime between 11 am
and 5:30 pm and took a television,
router, jewelry, and a camera, according
to police.
Booze bandit
A burglar stole liquor from an
Adams Street diner in the early
morning hours of March 9.
The nogoodnik got into the eatery
between Fulton and Johnson
streets at 4 am by using a tool to get
in the rear door, and took three bottles
of liquor worth almost $3,000,
according to the authorities.
Copper robber
A sneak stole copper wires from
the roof of a building on Nevins
Street sometime between Feb. 7 and
March 6.
The lout took the wires, worth
some $5,000, from the building at
Flatbush Avenue in the span of a
month, according to cops.
The Sanchez swindle!
A charlatan scammed a Grace
Court woman out of $6,000 worth of
gift cards on March 7.
The shyster called the woman,
who lives near Hicks Street, between
8:45 am and 12:15 pm pretending
to be a U.S. Marshall by the
name of William Sanchez, and told
the victim that her Social Security
had been compromised and asked
for gift cards to clear her name, according
to cops.
All expenses paid
A crook stole more than $22,000
from a company on Washington
Street between Feb. 13 and March
6.
The scammer wrote fraudulent
checks in the name of the business
near Front Street and took the
money from its account sometime
between the two dates, cops said.
Bar thief
A lout stole a man’s bookbag at a
Front Street bar on March 9.
The victim told cops that he left
his bag — along with his jacket, laptop,
wallet, and tablet — unattended
in the watering hole near Pearl
Street at 3:30 am, and when he returned
to it a half hour later, somebody
had taken it, police said.
Nabbed
A fi lcher stole a woman’s wallet
at an Albee Square West department
store on March 9.
The woman told police she was
browsing the store near Fleet Street
between 1:35 and 2:35 pm when her
wallet went missing from her bag,
which she had placed on her shopping
cart, according to the authorities.
— Kevin Duggan