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Two men robbed another man at gunpoint near the victim’s Hicks Street apartment on April 25.
The victim noticed two men behind him on Joralemon Street at 2 am, but when he reached the corner of Hicks, the thugs ran towards him, displaying a gun and telling him to empty his pockets.
After the man gave up $60, his cellphone and various credit cards, the robbers fled towards Atlantic Avenue.
Three men roughed up a woman on State Street on April 26 before robbing her.
The hoodlums threw her against a car, between Sidney Place and Clinton Street, and told her not to scream at 11:30 pm, before stealing her Blackberry from her pocket.
A man fended off would-be muggers on Sands Street on April 23, but got socked in the head in the process.
Two attackers tried to steal the 50-year-old man’s backpack by hitting him, but weren’t able to pry it loose, forcing them to give up and flee empty-handed from the scene between Bridge and Gold streets at 10 pm.
Thieves stole purses from two women in different Montague Street restaurants within 40 minutes on April 23.
In both cases, the victims had hung their pocketbooks on their chairs while they ate, but the thieves managed to stealthily remove them without being detected.
In the first instance, which took place in an eatery between Hicks and Henry streets between 3:30 and 4 pm, a 52-year-old woman’s designer purse was taken — and with it her cellphone and trendy eyeglasses.
Minutes later, on the same block, another fashionable bag, containing a digital camera, was stolen.
A Texas-themed barbecue restaurant on Livingston Street erupted into a bloody coed brawl on April 23, which ended with two victims winding up in the hospital.
For reasons unknown to police, a group of four men and women had been arguing in the restaurant, between Gallatin Place and Hoyt Street, at about 6 pm.
Suddenly, the punches started flying, and one couple even threw drinking glasses at their counterparts. The glass-catching couple’s injuries were so severe that they had to be taken to Bellevue Hospital with deep cuts to their faces and necks.
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