June 23, 2007 / News / Police Blotter / Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Ride-by robbery

By Harry Cheadle

for The Brooklyn Paper

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He wasn’t just cycling for his health.

A man on a bicycle ambushed a woman on June 12 just after 9 am, and snatched her pocketbook at the corner of Quincy and Classon avenues.

The two-wheeled thief, who was riding a gray bicycle and wearing a white ’do-rag, followed the woman for some distance and then accelerated, grabbing her pocketbook out of her hands as he sped by.

But the theft was hardly fruitful: The bag contained no cash.

Youth is served

A 15-year-old was robbed of his cellphone by a 16-year-old, who came up behind him on Ashland Place and DeKalb Avenue at around 11 am on June 13, and demanded, “Give me your phone.”

After the victim refused, the mugger added, “…or I will punch you in the face.”

That’s when the victim gave up the cellphone.

But cops quickly arrested the teen, the phone still in his pocket, police said.

Geezer stabber

A 70-year-old man stabbed an acquaintance a full generation younger than him after an argument turned bloody on June 16.

The debate started at around 3 pm between the 53-year-old man and the elder gentleman near Greene Avenue, between Classon and Grand avenues. But when it got heated, the older man took out a knife and stabbed the younger man in the neck.

The victim was taken to Woodhull Hospital, and the older man fled in a taxi.

Cash snatch

Getting robbed when coming home drunk doesn’t just happen to twentysomethings.

A 70-year-old man returning to his apartment around midnight on June 15 after a night of drinking lost $400 to a thief who pummeled him about the head.

The man was nearing his apartment, which is on Myrtle Avenue near Classon Avenue, when the assailant started pushing him. He was hit a number of times — and even suffered a laceration of his eyelid — before he surrendered the cash.

Vanishing cars

At least two cars were swiped from Fort Green and Clinton Hill streets last week.

In the first case, a woman who lives on Cambridge Place and Greene Avenue came downstairs at 9 am on June 8 to find her Honda gone.

A week later, on June 16, a man who had parked his rented Mazda at Park Avenue and Ryerson Street found that it was gone when he returned at 7 am.

In both cases, there was no broken glass on the road, and no trace of where the cars had gone.

De-construction

Nearly $1,000 in tools were jacked from a construction site on Clifton Place between Grand and Classon avenues on June 13, cops said.

A worker came by just after 9 am and discovered that a number of saws, a compressor, some pipes, and a water meter had all disappeared.

In all, $1,000 in equipment was gone. There was no sign of forced entry.

Late-night prowl

A man lost a favorite black plastic clock worth all of $10 — oh, and a $450 digital camera — when a thief broke into his first-floor apartment on June 16.

He told cops that he had locked the door of the unit, which is at Lafayette Avenue and Cumberland Street, at around midnight.

When he came back at 2:30 am, his door had been opened and his home was turned upside-down, ransacked thoroughly. He told police that all he lost was the $10 clock and the fancy camera.

Night knifing

A chance meeting on the street led to a nasty fight on June 16.

Just before midnight, two men, both around 30, bumped into each other on the corner of Myrtle and Carlton Avenues. That bump led to a verbal exchange, and then one of the men — who wore an Afro and blue jeans, cops said — pulled out a box-cutter and let it do the talking for him.

Before fleeing, the perp left his victim with numerous cuts on his face, forearm, and the back of his head. The man called his cousin, who took him to the hospital. The slasher is still on the loose.

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