August 4, 2007: Vol. 30, No. 30

A fight over a woman ended in a stabbing outside a bar on Fifth Avenue near 12th Street in the pre-dawn hours of July 29, police said.

The bloody brawl began when a 40-year-old man driving past the nightspot around 3 am noticed his girlfriend outside with another man and pulled over. The cuckolded lover and his lady argued for several minutes until the other man came outside. The fight grew physical, with the two men exchanging blows on the sidewalk. When a friend of the disgruntled boyfriend came outside and tried to break things up, the other man whipped out a knife. The 41-year-old friend was stabbed in the lower torso six times before his attacker sped off in red Dodge pickup.

Georgia mind

A 31-year-old lost a $200 Cingular cell phone, a credit card, house keys and his Georgia driver’s license when a thug broke into his gym locker on July 28 at 3:15 pm, police said.

The man hadn’t locked his valuables when he left the locker room for a work out at the Park Slope YMCA on Ninth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. (Police recommend a lock for even the shortest treadmill trot).

A gym rat ripped off another Park Slope Y patron the next day at 10 am, police said.

The July 29 locker break-in stumped officers who reported no signs of forced entry. Police said the 29-year-old Park Slope victim lost $45 in cash and a credit card.

Candy of baby

A 36-year-old woman nearly got her purse nabbed while shopping for fresh produce at the Grand Army Plaza farmer’s market on July 28.

The woman was strolling through stands of fresh peaches and strawberries when a hood grabbed her purse off the baby carriage she was pushing. The handbag contained $29 in cash and her credit cards.

Before the thief could escape, a policeman patrolling the crowded plaza nabbed him. The purse was returned to the woman with nothing missing.

No brakes

A 34-year-old Park Slope woman was robbed by a bicycle-riding bandit outside her home on First Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at 11 pm on July 28, police said.

The bandit accosted his prey without ever getting off his two-wheel steed, shoving into her with the bike and grabbing her handbag as she fell to the ground. He got away with a bag containing a cellphone and $150 in cash, fleeing west on First Place.

The bag, the bike and the bandit remain missing.

Bank robber

A robber held up a bank on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street on July 23 at 1:40 pm using nothing more than a handwritten note, police said.

The robber, clad in a yellow straw fedora and a white shirt, patiently waited in line at the bank until his turn at the teller’s counter. Upon reaching the counter, he handed the employee a small scrap of paper.

“You have three seconds to give me all the money or I’ll kill you,” the note said. She complied with his request and he fled the small, glass-fronted bank with $2,157 in cash. The robber took back his hand-written death threat before leaving.

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