June 14, 2008 / News / Police Blotter / Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Dealers ‘weed’ each other out

By Mike McLaughlin

The Brooklyn Paper

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A trio of armed bandits held five friends captive in a Lafayette Avenue apartment while the invaders looted the residence on June 6.

The melee began when the resident of the apartment, which is between Washington Avenue and St. James Place, answered the front door of the building expecting a female friend at 12:30 am, but instead was bum-rushed by three men, one of whom pulled a silver hand gun and pointed in the victim’s face.

The hooligans broke open the apartment door and corralled the 24-year-old tenant and the four other men in his apartment into the bedroom.

“Where’s the weed?” one of the thugs yelled.

“You bring money into my neighborhood and no one’s going to notice?” another said.

As a result of such taunting, cops believe that the victim was involved in drug dealing.

The thieves rummaged through the apartment and took an Apple computer, jewelry, Playstation video game system, and drove off in the resident’s 2006 Range Rover.

Beat down

A horde of teenagers robbed a woman on Myrtle Avenue early on June 2.

The 20-year-old victim was near the corner of Emerson Place at 12:30 am when she was asked by a large pack of young men and women if she had any money.

After she told them no, one person in the crowd lunged for her purse and others struck her in the face several times causing her to lose her grip on the pocketbook.

The bag contained $60, an iPod, her driver’s license and a credit card.

Outnumbered

Three intimidating hooligans mugged a Brooklyn Tech HS student on Fulton Street on June 2.

“Don’t fight or you’ll get hurt,” said one of the thugs at around 3 pm between Rockwell and Ashland places.

The warning encouraged the 14-year-old into surrendering his wallet containing $20 and a Metrocard.

Come up shorts

A man’s wallet was stolen from his shorts in his Waverly Avenue office on June 2.

The worker arrived at his place of business at 10 am, according to the police report, and deposited his wallet in a pair of knickers while he went to labor elsewhere in the building, which is between Flushing and Park avenues.

He told police that he returned half an hour later and the wallet, containing $300, ID and assorted credit cards, was gone.

Wide open

Thieves burglarized a Washington Avenue apartment on June 3 by slipping in through a first-floor window.

The resident told police she left her apartment, which is between Fulton Street and Gates Avenue, at 9 am and returned home 12 hours later to find that the front window had been raised.

Her checkbook, computer and a pair of diamond earrings were missing, according to the complaint she filed with police.

Infirmary

Burglars struck at a St. James Place apartment on June 4.

The three roommates who share the apartment, between Fulton Street and Gates Avenue, were all away from the building between 6 pm and 8:40 pm. When one of them returned home, she saw the front door had been forcibly opened and the frame had been damaged.

The thief stole three laptops and a video game system, according to the victims.

Break in

Intruders plundered a DeKalb Avenue construction site on June 6 or 7.

Burglars entered the site, which is between Vanderbilt and Clermont avenues, by breaking down a plywood barrier after 5:45 pm on June 6 and before noon the next day.

The construction company handling the renovations lost a drill, hammer, saw and other tools.

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