October 20, 2007 / News / Police Blotter / Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Lost his bread

By Harry Cheadle

for The Brooklyn Paper

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A routine stop for a man delivering baked goods to a Myrtle Avenue supermarket turned into an armed robbery on Oct. 8.

The man pulled up near the store, near Washington Park, at around 3 pm. He was getting ready to cart the bread to the store when a pair of men with their faces hidden by black hoodies entered the truck and forced him into the back.

One of the men pulled out a handgun, ordered the victim to the ground, and pressed the gun against the his side while the second perp stood lookout.

“Where’s the money?” the first crook hissed, and the man, terrified for his life, handed over $1,500.

Not satisfied, the hood took the man’s gold necklace before fleeing.

Tennis thief

A wallet-snatcher may have attempted to return the stolen property — minus two credit cards — but the wallet’s owner is still suspicious.

The incident started on Oct. 7 around 10 am, when a man set down his wallet to play tennis at a court near the corner of Adelphi and DeKalb avenues. The wallet was gone when the man finished his game, but a couple of days later, a dreadlocked man came to the victim’s house with the wallet in hand, claiming that he had found it at a Popeye’s in Downtown Brooklyn.

The man took his wallet back, but remembered seeing the perp hanging out nearby when he was playing tennis.

Kid criminals

A pair of 15-year-olds went on a mini crime spree on Oct. 9, stealing the cellphones of two younger teens, but the police caught one of the pint-sized perps and returned the stolen property.

The duo started by assaulting a 13-year-old girl as she walked home from school at around 3:40 pm. As she reached the corner of Clermont and DeKalb avenues, one of the thugs put her in a chokehold and grabbed her phone.

Evidently pleased with the results of their first caper, they moved a few blocks away, to the intersection of Vanderbilt and Lafayette avenues, where they similarly attacked a 13-year-old boy around 4 pm, cops said. They used the same tactics, placing the youngster in a chokehold while one kept watch. This time, however, the cops came by, and the dead-end kids fled in different directions.

The cops caught the boy who had done the choking and found both cellphones on him, police said.

Do-gooder shot

A man who intervened in a robbery on Oct. 7 was rewarded with a shot in the leg.

The 53-year-old Good Samaritan noticed a woman being accosted by three teens on the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Fulton Street around 6 pm. He chased the hoodlums off and during the scuffle he heard a “firecracker-like sound.”

He felt a pain in his ankle and assumed he had been kicked, but then he looked down to find that there was a hole in his jeans and blood running down his leg — a wound from a pellet lodged in his leg.

The teens fled empty-handed, thanks to the wounded hero, who was taken to the hospital, where the projectile was removed.

Intimidation

A 6-foot-1, 150-pound mugger didn’t bother to pick on someone his own size on Oct. 9, punching a 13-year-old boy, though failing to rob him of his phone.

The perp approached the boy at the corner of Lafayette Avenue and Adelphi Street at around 3:30 pm and said, “Give me your cell.” When the boy said no, the man let his fist do the talking, punching the kid to the ground and giving him a black eye in the process.

Apparently, the perp was satisfied by simply punching the kid out, and departed without taking the cellphone.

Dorm drama

Students at a world-renowned art school lost laptop thefts from their dorm rooms on Oct. 11, but cops later collared the alleged perp.

The 19-year-old thief probably entered the dorm — located on Willoughby Avenue near Emerson Place — at around 6 pm. He targeted the third floor of the converted apartment building, taking two laptops from two different rooms. He was noticed by as many as five witnesses, who informed security and the police, who placed the man under arrest around 11 pm.

It was unclear how the perp had gotten into the dorm in the first place, but he didn’t get out.

©2007 The Brooklyn Paper