78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Getaway car
Cops have given up the hunt for
the wacko that attacked a woman on
Nevins Street on March 11.
The victim told police she was
waiting for her ride share near
Butler Street at 3:30 pm when the
stranger started talking smack,
but after she confronted him for his
foul mouth, the guy went ballistic,
pulling out a metal object from his
jacket and chasing her with it.
Fortunately, the victim’s car
pulled up just in time and she leapt
in, kicking the man off of her as he
tried to pry her from the car, according
to police.
Bag man
Some jerk stole the airbag from a
man’s 2015 Honda Accord he parked
on Flatbush Avenue on March 10.
The victim told police he left his
four door near the Prospect Park
Zoo at 10 pm, and returned the next
morning to fi nd his passenger-side
window stolen and his infl atable
safety device gone.
Police have closed the case without
any arrests.
Snack attack
Police arrested a 54-year-old
man for allegedly stealing about $11
worth of snacks from a Flatbush Avenue
grocery store on March 10.
An employee told police the suspect
nabbed a pack of Entenmann’s
cookies, a bag of mixed nuts, and
some sharp cheddar from the store
between Carlton Avenue and Sterling
Place at 11:32 pm, and police
picked him up on a misdemeanor
larceny charge that day.
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Shocking
Cops busted a 53-year-old man
accused of using a Taser on a guy on
Park Avenue on March 17.
The victim told police the suspect
shocked him with the stun gun
near N. Oxford Street at 2:15 pm, before
fl eeing.
Police arrested the man following
a brief search of the area, and
found the suspect in possession of
weed and pepper spray, in addition
to the Taser, cops said.
Bad kid
Offi cers arrested a man for allegedly
shooting his mother inside
their St. Edwards Street home on
March 21.
The suspect, 19, fi red off a shot
inside the apartment near Park Avenue
at 9:25 pm, striking his 53-yearold
mother in the leg, cops said.
Police found the woman lying
on the 11th fl oor of the residential
building, and rushed her to Brooklyn
Hospital for treatment.
Cops cuffed the son a few hours
following the attack, chargin him
with felony assault, according to
police.
Rainy day
Police are looking for the woman
who they say attacked a man with
an umbrella inside a Carlton
Avenue residential building on
March 21.
The victim told police the suspect
attacked him with the rain
gear inside the building between
Myrtle and Park avenues at 6:30 pm,
striking him on the head.
Sharp crook
Investigators are searching
for the knife-wielding wacko who
stabbed a man inside a Carlton
Avenue building on March 22.
The lowlife stabbed the victim in
the gut inside the residential building
near Atlantic Avenue at 8:52
pm, and fi rst responders rushed
the victim to Methodist Hospital for
treatment, cops said.
Police claim they found the victim
highly intoxicated and uncooperative
following the attack,
according to the report.
Teen terror
Cops arrested a 17-year-old boy
for allegedly participating in the
gun-point robbery of another kid on
Greene Avenue on March 18.
The victim, 15, told police the
suspect and seven accomplices
pulled a gun on him between Fulton
and Cumberland streets at 1:40
pm, taking his earphones, iPhone,
and backpack.
Police caught up with the suspect
a few days later, charging him with
felony robbery, cops said.
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SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Black and blue belt
Five louts attacked a man on
Sixth Avenue with sticks and belts
on March 19, taking his phone
during the assault.
The victim told police the brutes
had been following and cursing
at him when they attacked near
55th Street at 12:30 am, whipping
him with their belt and beating
them with sticks they grabbed off
the street.
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The man dropped his phone during
the assault, and one of the crooks
snagged it before all fi ve men fl ed up
56th Street heading toward Seventh
Avenue, cops said.
Tool time
A thief looted a 36th Street construction
site on March 18, taking
several pricey tools.
The victim told police the crook
snuck into the worksite between
Third and Fourth avenues by busting
through a wooden fence sometime
after 6:30 pm, before helping
himself to a cache of power tools
and then fl eeing the same way he
came in.
Carried off
A crook drove off with a man’s
2008 Acadia he parked on Third
Avenue on March 18.
The victim told police he left his
carry-all near 45th Street at 7 pm,
and returned the next morning to
fi nd his car stolen. — Colin Mixson
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
A high-steaks crime!
A thief stole steaks at knifepoint
from an Atlantic Avenue grocery
store on March 21.
The meaty malcontent bagged a
six-pack of meat and put them in his
jacket at Clinton Street at 7:10 pm,
according to police.
A guy tried to stop the carnivore
crook outside and the lout then
threatened him with a kitchen knife
and fl ed on his bicycle towards
Court Street, authorities said.
Cold blooded
Police arrested a man for allegedly
throwing a cup at a woman
on the F train at Jay Street on
March 18.
The victim told cops she was sitting
on the Coney Island-bound train
at York Street at 10:45 am while the
man stood next to her talking and
mumbling to himself.
The man then allegedly threw a
cup full of ice, hitting the victim in
the face and causing swelling and
pain to her right eye, cops said.
Police caught up with the suspect
and cuffed him at the corner of
Gold and Tillary streets at 3:30 pm,
according to the authorities.
Gym rat
A punk robbed a woman’s
locker at a Boerum Place gym on
March 19.
The baddie took the victim’s cellphone,
debit card, driver’s license,
and library card from her locker at
the fi tness center near State Street
around 1 pm, according to police.
The chancer then used the victim’s
bank card to buy something
at a nearby deli on Hoyt Street,
cops said.
Makeup bandits
Police arrested two teens for allegedly
stealing makeup from a Joralemon
Street department store on
March 20.
The 16-year-old girl and 15-yearold
boy allegedly stole an estimated
$1,772 worth of makeup from the
store near Court Street at 7:30 pm.
Cops cuffed the youths an hour
later at the store, according to the
authorities.
Jacket jerk
A sneak robbed a man on Tillary
Street on March 24.
The baddie took the man’s jacket,
which contained his bank cards
and cash, at Gold Street at 1:15 am,
cops said. — Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Opportune thief
A crook stole a gray 2018 Hyundai
sports utility vehicle — along
with nearly $3,000 worth of clothing,
cash, and electronics inside
— from a Hamilton Avenue parking
spot on March 18.
The theft from the spot at W.
Ninth Street occurred just after 6:45
pm, according to police, who added
that the car was unlocked and running
with the keys in the ignition.
Well-dressed crook
A baddie stole an estimated $147
worth of clothing from an Atlantic
Avenue store on March 17.
The theft occurred from the store
between Clinton and Court streets
at around 6:15 pm, police said.
Electric steal
A thief stole an expensive iPad
from a Hoyt Street classroom on
March 19.
The theft occurred at school between
Union and President streets
at some point between 10:30 am and
4:45 pm, according to police, who
added that the swiper snagged the
portable computer from a backpack.
— Julianne McShane