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del.icio.usTwo men cornered and robbed a teenager at gunpoint on 83rd Street on April 3.
The 14-year-old victim was walking home from school between Third and Ridge avenues just after 1 pm when the suspects blocked his path, cops said.
“Don’t move,” the first perp threatened, pointing a gun at the boy.
The second suspect then reached into the victim’s pockets and pulled out the boy’s cellphone and wallet before the two men fled down the street.
Beat down
Three men beat and then robbed a man on 67th Street on April 10.
The 40-year-old victim told cops that he was turning the corner at Fifth Avenue at around 9 am when the thugs surrounded him.
One man pulled out a long metal pipe and hit him in the back and the face. With the victim on the ground, the perps took $200 out of his wallet and ran away.
Gas pain
Someone managed to steal a woman’s wallet, buy gas with her debit card and drive away unnoticed from a Fourth Avenue gas station on April 2.
The 30-year-old victim told cops she pulled into the gas station, which is between 67th and 68th streets, to fill up her car at around 10 pm. She paid cash for her gas and then left, but later noticed that 11 of her credit and debit cards had been stolen from her purse.
When she called her bank to report the theft, she discovered the perp had charged a full tank of gas.
2K not OK
A perp took advantage of an 86th Street store’s broken alarm system, forcing his way into the store late on April 8 and leaving with more than $2,000.
The 25-year-old owner of the store, which is between Fifth Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway, said he closed the store around 9 pm and went home. When he returned the next day, he noticed one of the doors was slightly ajar and then discovered the missing cash.
The building is just a few doors down from the offices of Community Board 10, by the way.
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