78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
No parking
Some jerk swiped a 61-year-old
man’s disabled-parking permit
from his car on Third Street on
March 29.
The victim told police he left his
car near Third Avenue at 5 a.m., and
returned at around noon to fi nd his
city-issued permit stolen.
It’s possible the man left his
car unlocked, the victim told
investigators.
Homeless hotel
Cops arrested a 40-year-old man
for allegedly attacking a resident of
a Butler Street hotel being used as a
homeless shelter on April 6.
The victim, 53, told police he was
arguing with the suspect when the
man attacked him inside the shelter
hotel between Nevins Street
and Third Avenue at 1:50 a.m.,
scratching his forearm.
Police arrested the suspect on a
misdemeanor assault charge that
day, cops said.
Teen terrorized
Police have given up the hunt for
a man who threatened a 17-year-old
girl outside a Fifth Avenue School
on April 4.
The victim told police she was
leaving the school near Ninth Street
at 3 p.m. when the creep walked up
to her and snarled, “Watch you
backs. You are lucky I don’t have a
gun.”
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Bogus bust
Cops arrested a 25-year-old
woman after she allegedly lied to
police on April 13, falsely claiming
she was beaten on 25th Street and
her rental car stolen.
The suspect told police she was
sitting in her rental car near Fourth
Avenue at 10 a.m. when the suspect
punched her through the window
and drove off with the vehicle in
a heist reminiscent of the Grand
Theft Auto video game series.
But police later discovered the
woman was lying through her teeth,
fabricating the entire incident, cops
said.
Benz better
Some jerk smashed the sunroof
of a man’s car he parked on Sixth
Avenue on April 10.
The victim told police he left his
2016 Mercedes Benz between 40th
and 41st streets at 1 p.m., and returned
the next day to fi nd his skyward
facing window on his luxury
vehicle obliterated.
Car crook
Police busted a 34-year-old man
for allegedly trying to sneak into
cars parked along 57th Street on
April 11.
A resident living between Seventh
and Eighth avenues spotted
the suspect prowling up and down
the block, pulling on car-door handles
at 9:25 p.m., eventually to a red
Toyota Sienna.
Police came and busted the guy
on an attempted felony unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle charge,
noting that the suspect is known to
the department as an “auto-crime
recidivist,” cops said.
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— Colin Mixson
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Scoot away
A couple of louts hit a man
with a scooter at a N. Oxford Walk
residence on April 13.
The victim was in the apartment
near Cumberland Walk and Park
Avenue at 6:30 p.m. when the brutes
punched him in the face, causing
cuts and bruising to the head,
chased him out of the apartment,
and then struck him with a small
scooter, police said.
Debit doppelganger
A lout wiped more than $300
from a woman’s bank account near
her Carlton Avenue apartment on
April 8.
The woman told police she tried
to buy a sandwich with her debit
card from a shop near Adelphi
Street around noon, but the card
was declined. When she asked her
bank, she was told that some nogoodnik
either forged or duplicated
her card to make a cash withdrawal,
police said.
Big haul
A burglar stole an automated
teller machine and $150 from a S.
Portland Avenue restaurant on
April 8.
The crook cracked the front door
lock of the eatery near Hanson Place
and Fulton Street around 10:20
a.m., then walked off with the cash
dispenser and money, police said.
Unholy check
Cops cuffed a man for allegedly
forging and cashing a check from a
church on Fulton Street on April 9,
police said.
The guy allegedly forged the
check and cashed it in for $2,000 at a
check cashing business near Washington
and Waverly avenues at 6:40
p.m., according to police.
Dining and stealing
A crook looted a woman’s car
parked at a DeKalb Avenue restaurant
sometime overnight on
April 10.
The victim told police she parked
the car outside the eatery near Clermont
Avenue and Adelphi Street at
6:45 p.m. and returned the next day
at 9:15 a.m., according to police.
Police said the scoundrel stole
a laptop, handbag, MetroCard, diary,
and personal cards worth more
than $2,000, police reported.
— Natallie Rocha
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Bodega bandits
A couple of jerks beat a man and
robbed his Atlantic Avenue bodega
on April 8.
The goons were shoplifting energy
bars and an energy drink inside
the store near Henry Street
at 6:50 p.m. when the victim confronted
them, according to police.
The louts then pushed the victim
to the ground and kicked him in the
face before making a run for it towards
State Street, cops said.
Street fi ght
Four brutes violently robbed a
man in the middle of Fulton Street
on April 8.
The victim was driving near
Flatbush Avenue Extension at 8:45
p.m. when one of the crooks threw a
cup of water at his car, according to
the authorities.
He then got out of his car to ask
them what was going on and they
started punching him in the head,
before stealing his cellphone and car
keys and dashing towards Lafayette
Avenue, cops said.
Knifepoint robbery
A baddie robbed a man at knifepoint
on Henry Street on April 11.
The victim was near Orange
Street at 1:40 a.m. when the criminal
showed a knife and demanded
money and his phone, cops said.
The victim didn’t have any cash
on him so he gave the cur his phone,
who then fl ed towards Cranberry
Street, police said.
Violent ambush
A malefactor ambushed and
robbed woman on Hicks Street on
April 14.
The victim told police she was
near Middagh Street at 12:45 a.m.
when the lout came from behind and
bashed her in the head with an object,
making her fall to the ground.
The bruiser then snatched her
purse and escaped towards Henry
Street, according to police.
Scooped!
Cops cuffed a man suspected of
violently stealing ice cream from
a Lawrence Street supermarket on
April 14.
The man, along with an accomplice,
allegedly tried to steal a pint
of the sweet stuff from the store between
Willoughby Street and Myrtle
Avenue at 4:30 p.m., according
to police.
His partner fl ed the scene while
the suspect punched one of the store
employees in the face, cops said.
The Boys in Blue arrested the
suspect at at the store at 5:12 p.m.,
according to the authorities.
Brutal bruiser
Police arrested a man who they
say attacked a cop in a Schermerhorn
Street building on April 10.
The suspect was allegedly assaulting
a person in the building
near Bond Street at 10:45 a.m. when
the sergeant tried to intervene,
according to police.
He allegedly struck her in the
face multiple times, tore some of
her hair out, and threw her to the
ground, before she and her fellow
police offi cers were able to cuff the
guy, according to the authorities.
— Kevin Duggan
76TH PRECINCT
CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
One got caught
Police arrested a man who they
say acted with another man to assault
a woman and steal her purse
on Summit Street on April 13.
Offi cials say the woman was between
Hicks and Henry streets just
after 11:30 p.m., when one of the men
grabbed her from behind, grabbed
her purse, and struck her in the
face, before the two allegedly fl ed
on foot.
Biked away
A baddie stole a bike from Court
Street on April 9.
The theft occurred between President
and Carroll streets at some
point between 9 and 9:20 p.m., police
said. — Julianne McShane