May 31, 2008 / News / Police Blotter / Williamsburg–Greenpoint–Bushwick

Armed robbery

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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A crook with a handgun burst into a Lombardy Street trading company on May 23, but he didn’t get away with anything.

The thug — who left behind a gray hardhat — burst through the front door at around 8 am, waving a black handgun in his right hand.

“Don’t move,” he shouted at one employee while forcing another into a back room.

But the employee didn’t listen — instead, she ran through a rear door and shouted for help. The crook got nervous and fled from the shop, which is at the corner of Vandervoort Avenue.

Steel steal

Two thugs held up a Dupont Street steel company on May 23, escaping with $4,684 and two cellphones.

The crooks entered at around 2:20 pm and flashed a black pistol.

“Where’s all the money,” one of the robbers said while the other guarded the front door.

The hoodlums took the cash, but before they left the business, which is between McGuinness Boulevard and Provost Street, they stole an iPhone and a Blackberry from an employee.

Vicious robbery

Two crooks dragged a 36-year-old man to a secluded driveway on May 22 and robbed him of $60.

The thugs pounced as the man left a store at around 8 pm. With one of the hoods standing sentry, the other grasped the victim around the neck and pulled him to an isolated driveway near the corner of Skillman and Graham avenues.

But the victim fought back and the crooks threw him to the ground.

“Stay there or I’ll kill you,” one of the thugs sneered before snatching the victim’s wallet.

Bottle opener

A bottle-wielding delinquent hospitalized a 31-year-old man when he shattered a beer on a passerby’s head on May 24.

The hooligan struck his victim as he walked with friends around the corner of North 14th Street and Kent Avenue at around 11:20 pm.

The blow caused a laceration that sent the 31-year-old to Woodhull Hospital, cops say.

Third rail

A subterranean thief snatched a purse in the Greenpoint Avenue subway station on May 19 — then jumped onto the tracks.

The crook yanked a black leather shoulder bag from a 27-year-old woman’s grasp at around 8:55 am and fled down the tracks into a tunnel. The thief got away with his victim’s credit cards, wallet, IDs, phone, iPod, and $40.

Last week, police arrested a suspect in a string of similar robberies in Manhattan train stations. Cops say the suspect could have been behind this robbery as well.

Photo finished

A crook broke into a Wythe Avenue apartment and stole a digital camera on May 20.

The thief got in just after midnight, waking one of the residents when he tried to open her bedroom door. But before the tenant got out of bed, the thief snatched a $200 camera from another bedroom and fled, leaving the front door of the apartment, which is between North Third Street and Metropolitan Avenue, wide open.

Dropped call

Five no-good hoods attacked a Manhattan man while he chatted on the phone on May 18.

The crooks committed the crime at the corner of North Fourth and Roebling streets, interrupting the 33-year-old victim’s conversation with his wife by striking him in the back of his head.

After throwing some blows, the thieves snatched the phone and escaped at around 11:20 pm, cops say.

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