78TH PRECINCT
PARK SLOPE
Illicit indulgence
Police cuffed a 57-year-old man
for allegedly looting a Fifth Avenue
house of worship through the
course of two April 16 break-ins,
taking an estimated $1,600 worth of
electronics.
The suspect fi rst entered the
church between Warren and Baltic
streets through a side entrance
at 10:23 p.m., when he proceeded to
an offi ce there and nabbed an Apple
laptop, before leaving, cops said.
But the man returned at midnight,
this time using a wooden
stick to force his way into the building,
before taking a 32-inch television,
according to police.
At some point during the burglary,
a witness told police he spotted
the suspect prowling around
with a black garbage bag, and responding
offi cers caught the man
that night on a felony burglary
charge, cops said.
Free to hate
Cops have given up the hunt for
the creep who called an black man a
slur on Ninth Street on April 12.
The victim told police that, without
any apparent reason, the fi end
insulted him outside a bagel spot between
Fourth and Fifth avenues at
12:50 p.m., using an Italian slur for
denigrating African Americans.
Low gravity
Police arrested a man who they
claim was spotted with an illegal
gravity knife on Nevins Street on
April 17.
The arresting offi ce said he spotted
the suspect near Wyckoff Street
with the illicit blade at 1:05 p.m., according
to police.
Work bites
Cops cuffed a 45-year-old woman
for allegedly biting a paramedic
inside an Eighth Avenue women’s
shelter on April 17.
The medic told police that he was
attempting to treat the suspect —
who was considered by police as an
emotionally disturbed person at the
time of the incident — at the shelter
between 14th and 15th streets at 2:30
p.m. when she chomped down on his
hand.
The woman was arrested that
day on a felony assault charge, cops
said.
Dirty laundry
Police cuffed a man for allegedly
nabbing $72 worth of laundry detergent
from a Fifth Avenue grocery
store on April 18.
An employee told police the suspect
was spotted taking six bottles
of Tide detergent from the store between
Lincoln and Berkeley places
at 12:25 p.m., before skipping past
the register with his ill-gotten soap.
When offi cers arrived to cuff
him, the suspect was found in possession
of a crack pipe caked in heroin
residue, according to police.
72ND PRECINCT
SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Game over
A gunman stole $7,500 from a
man on 64th Street on April 22.
The victim told police he’d arranged
to meet up with the thief in
order to purchase a small fortune’s
worth of digital content for an online
video game between Fourth
and Fifth avenues at 9:15 p.m., but
that after he handed over the cash,
the crook stuck a gun in his face and
told him to scram.
Apple picking
A thief beat and robbed a man on
51st Street on April 22, taking his
iPhone and $50.
The victim told police the crook
asked him to spare some cash near
Sixth Avenue at 4:30 a.m., and then
attacked when he refused, kicking
him in the leg, before taking his
valuables.
Glass hole
Some jerk busted the window of
a man’s car he parked on 55th Street
on April 22.
The victim told police he left his
2014 Toyota Sienna near Fifth Avenue
at 7 p.m., and returned the next
morning to fi nd a passenger window
shattered.
Crack down
Cops arrested a 27-year-old man
after allegedly nabbing 10-ounces of
crack cocaine from his 62nd Street
apartment on April 29.
Offi cers executing a search warrant
of the suspect’s home between
Second and Third avenues uncovered
the stash of narcotics at 6:45
a.m., and charged him with a felony
drug charge, according to authorities.
Cash grab
Police are looking for the fi ends
who beat and robbed a man inside a
Fourth Avenue apartment building
on April 28.
The victim told police he met the
crooks — two men and a woman —
at the apartment building between
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56th and 57th streets at 4:30 a.m.,
when the guys grabbed him and
threw him to the ground, while the
lady started stomping on him.
The thieves took $170 off the victim,
before fl eeing down Fourth Avenue
towards Bay Ridge, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
88TH PRECINCT
FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Belligerent bruiser
Police arrested a man who they
suspect of viscously punching a
man on Clinton Avenue on April 24.
The 72-year-old victim was in his
apartment near Lafayette Avenue at
11:15 a.m. when the suspect busted
in, demanding $100, police said.
When the victim refused, the
man allegedly punched him in the
face and mouth, knocking him unconscious,
and then dragged him
inside the apartment, which caused
a laceration to the left cheek, cops
said.
The Boys in Blue caught up with
the 24-year-old suspect the next day
at 8 a.m., according to the authorities
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he victim sustained some 40
stitches to his face and mouth, polic
reported.
Bandit boozer
A baddie drank a bottle of whisky
from a woman’s apartment on S. Elliott
Place on April 18.
The victim told cops she heard
the lout and saw him on the fi re
escape of her apartment between
DeKalb Avenue and Fulton Street
around 2:30 p.m.
When she came home at around
10 a.m. the next day, she found that
someone had taken a bottle of Scotch
whisky and downed the booze before
escaping through the fi re escape
window and leaving the empty
bottle, according to police.
Crooked cruiser
A scoundrel stole a car on Fulton
Street on April 24.
The malefactor broke into the
car parked near Clermont Avenue
before 3:30 p.m. and used a spare
key in the glove compartment to
speed off, according to police.
The car was equipped with a navigation
system, and police tracked
down the vehicle to Hart Street between
Lewis Avenue and Marcus
Garvey Boulevard a half an hour
later, cops said.
The vehicle’s passenger-side
window was broken and the thief
also bagged a laptop and a toolbox,
according to the authorities.
Sneaky scoffl aw
A thief took a woman’s bike from
inside a lobby at Fulton Street apartment
building on April 25.
The good-for-nothing used a MetroCard
or bank card to crack the
lock to the door between Washington
Avenue and St. James Place at
2:30 a.m. and took the bike, according
to police.
The nogoodnik also opened a
package, but left it behind, cops
said.
Boombox baddie
A louse looted a man’s car on
Park Avenue on April 24.
The cur busted the window of
the car parked near Clinton Avenue
sometime between 7 a.m. and 3:30
p.m. and stole its radio and speakers
before making a run for it, according
to police.
Sneaker sneak
A scoffl aw stole 50 pairs of sneakers
from a storage unit on Hall
Street sometime between April 16
and 25.
The victim told cops he left his
shoe collection at the locker near
Park Avenue on 4 p.m. on April 16,
and when he returned at 4 p.m. a
little over a week later, they were
gone, without damage.
— Kevin Duggan
84TH PRECINCT
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Share the wealth
Robbers stole money from a rideshare
driver on Prince Street on
April 22.
The bad guys were in the car between
Gold and Tillary streets at
11 p.m. when one grabbed the driver’s
phone and accessed his weekly
earnings, then syphoned the money
to his own bank account, police
said.
Meanwhile, the second scoundrel
prevented the victim from retrieving
his phone before the two
baddies fl ed the vehicle, according
to authorities.
Slashed
Police arrested two men who
they say cut a person on Furman
Street on April 23.
The two men allegedly slashed
the victim’s right hand with a knife
and then punched and kicked the
victim near Brooklyn Bridge Park
around 5:45 p.m., according to police.
— Natallie Rocha