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PARK SLOPE
Toy story
Police cuffed a 32-year-old
woman for allegedly nabbing toys
from a Flatbush Avenue big-box retailer
since Nov. 3.
Security spotted the suspect, an
employee at the store near Atlantic
Avenue, giving out illicit discounts
and merchandise to an unknown
shopper up until Nov. 26, when her
scheme was discovered and the
woman was compelled to sign an
“admission statement” copping to
the crime, according to police.
Paint rob
A rascal keyed a man’s car on
Ninth Street on Nov. 30.
The victim told police the vandal
ruined the paint job on his 2017
Infi niti he parked between Eighth
Avenue and Prospect Park West at
noon.
Cash grab
Cops arrested a 23-year old man
for allegedly stealing a woman’s
wallet inside an Atlantic Avenue
electronics store on Dec. 7.
The victim told police she was
inside the store near Flatbush Avenue
at 8 pm, when she got an alert
from her bank that her card was being
used to make illicit purchases
at a Fulton Street deli, and she realized
her wallet had been stolen.
The woman called police and a
store owner at the bodega was able
to point out the suspect, who was
later found in possession of crack
cocaine, cops said.
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SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE
Two-bit con
A scam artist emailed a bomb
threat to the management offi ce of
a 58th Street warehouse complex
demanding Bitcoins on Dec. 13, as
part of a nationwide con being investigated
by the Federal Bureau of
Investigations.
A worker at the terminal near
Second Avenue at 1:39 pm received
the email stating that a “mercenary”
had planted a bomb somewhere
in the complex, and was demanding
Bitcoins worth $20,000 in
exchange for not detonating the explosive
device.
Police scoured the facility, but
didn’t fi nd any explosive devices
and later declared the building
safe, according to police.
Investigators then connected the
bomb threat to a national scheme to
collect cryptocurrency from fearful
Americans, cops said.
Subway rage
Cops arrested a 40-year-old
woman after she allegedly fl ew into
a profanity-laced rage and attacked
another woman aboard a D train at
the 36th Street subway station on
Dec. 11.
The victim told police she accidentally
bumped into the suspect
aboard a Manhattan-bound D train
at the station near Fourth Avenue
at 8:30 am, when the lady went berserk
and started screaming at her,
before smacking her with an umbrella
and slashing the woman’s
face with her keys.
Another straphanger moved to
step in on the victim’s behalf, and
then he got keyed too, suffering lacerations
to his face and hands, cops
said.
Offi cers cuffed the woman that
day on felony assault charges, according
to police. — Colin Mixson
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FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL
Got away
Cops are searching for the goon
who put a guy in a headlock while
other suspects allegedly tried to
steal from him on Willoughby Avenue
on Dec. 14, police said.
The victim told cops he was near
Washington Park at about 11:45 pm
when the villain grabbed and restrained
him while three other
teens tried to steal his property, according
to authorities.
Cops cuffed the trio, but are still
looking for the snake who put the
victim in the headlock, according
to authorities.
Butting heads
Police arrested a woman for
head-butting a victim inside a Tillary
Street shelter on Dec. 13.
The 65-year-old victim told police
she was in a fi ght with the
52-year-old suspect inside the shelter
near Prince Street at about 8:30
am when the suspect threw her
head back, hitting the victim in the
head. The suspect then grabbed the
victim by the head and threw her
to the ground, according to authorities.
Tool thief
A sneak stole a bunch of tools
from a guy’s car parked on Fulton
Street on Dec. 10, police said.
The victim told police he had
parked his vehicle near Washington
Avenue at about 4:30 pm and
when he returned a few minutes
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later, noticed some baddie had
broken into it and ran off with his
tools, including a drill, saw, batteries,
and charger, according to authorities.
Data breach
A malefactor stole a bunch of
laptops during an event on Flushing
Avenue on Dec. 13, police said.
The victim told cops the creep
was scoping out the event near
Sixth Street at about 11 am and ran
off with fi ve laptops, according to
authorities.
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO–
BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN
Sneaky straphanger
A baddie stole a woman’s card
holder while on a train near Fulton
Street on Dec. 10, police said.
The victim told cops she had gotten
on a Manhattan-bound 2 train
at Atlantic Avenue at about 8:15
am and felt some sneak pulling her
backpack over her shoulder, and
when she hopped off the train near
Nevins Street at about 8:20 am she
realized her card holder containing
her credit card and MetroCard
was gone, according to authorities.
Running wild
A cur grabbed a saw and ran
down Sands Street on Dec. 10, police
said.
The bandit picked up the Stihl
orange saw laying on the sidewalk
near Gold Street at about 2:15 pm
and ran off, according to authorities.
Trashed
A goon punched a guy in the face
and stole his phone on Livingston
Street on Dec. 10, police said.
The victim told cops he was
taking out the trash outside of an
apartment building between Smith
and Hoyt streets at about 5:15 am
when the villain attacked him
from behind, punched him, and demanded
cash.
The jerk fl ed down Hoyt Street
with the victim’s iPhone, according
to authorities.
No mercy
A ruffi an stole a handicapped
woman’s phone inside an elevator
in a Pacifi c Street subway station
on Dec. 12, police said.
The victim, who is in a wheelchair,
told cops she had gotten into
an argument with the bruiser about
him not paying his fare inside the
station near Fourth Avenue a little
before 1 am when he followed her
into an elevator and covered her
mouth with his hand, cops said.
The villain then grabbed the
victim’s cellphone and ran out of
the elevator, according to authorities.
Five-dollar discount
Five nogoodniks stole sandwiches
from a Johnson Street deli
on Dec. 13, police said.
The quintuplet ordered the
sandwiches from the bodega near
Prince Street and tried to leave
without paying $12 for them, cops
said.
But when an employee tried
to stop the crooks from leaving at
about 6 am, one of them socked him
in the face and then ran off with the
sandwiches, according to authorities.
— Julianne Cuba
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CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–
RED HOOK
Wheely cruel
A brute assaulted a cyclist on
President Street on Dec. 17.
The victim told police that she
was riding her bike near Court
Street at 7:20 pm when the malefactor
cut her off and hit her with his
side mirror.
The two then got into an argument
and the wretch kicked the
woman’s bike, punched her in the
side of the face, and fl ed towards
Clinton Street, according to cops.
TV taken
A sneak thief stole a man’s television
on Columbia Street on Dec.
10.
The victim told police he was
moving and left his television in
the hallway of his building near
Dwight Street at 9:20 am for no
more than fi ve minutes, and when
he came back to it, it was gone.
F train fi lcher
A pickpocket stole a man’s
phone and wallet on the F train on
Dec. 14.
The victim was on a Coney Island
bound train when a man
bumped into him as the train was
approaching the Carroll Street station
around 5:30 pm.
He later noticed when he reached
his stop at the Smith–Ninth Street
station that his phone and wallet
were missing. — Kevin Duggan