June 14, 2008 / News / Police Blotter / Park Slope

Two collared in brutal beating on First Street

By Gersh Kuntzman

The Brooklyn Paper

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Three teens were arrested minutes after brutally beating a man on First Street on June 2, cops said.

The victim, a 45-year-old Sixth Avenue residents , told police that he was walking towards Fourth Avenue when the posse set upon him. Two teens pummeled the man, while the other swiped his stuff. But minutes after the terrible trio — ages 14, 15 and 17 — fled towards Carroll Street, they were caught by cops and arrested.

Meanwhile, the victim headed to New York Methodist Hospital, just five blocks away, for treatment of abrasions on his elbow, leg, wrist and hand.

Cleaned out

A beloved Ninth Street jazz bar was cleaned out by a wily thief as workers were busy tidying up the joint for the day’s fun on June 6.

Cops say that the hood entered through the wide-open metal gate at around 9 am — while the staff was cleaning up the bar, which is between Sixth and Seventh avenues.

The thief took $3,000 from a metal box in the basement and fled. The workers didn’t discover the crime for two hours.

Prospect perps

Two thugs were caught red handed as they fled from a Prospect Park West apartment that they had just tried to enter on June 4, police said.

Officer Jose Garcia got to the apartment, which is at 13th Street, at around 4 pm to find the two men running down the rear fire escape. One of the 15-year-olds was quickly nabbed, but the other, seeing Garcia, headed for the roof.

But that didn’t fool the officer, who ran around the building and was waiting to collar the other 15-year-old.

Neither teen had anything on him, but an investigation revealed a broken second-floor window. So the punks were hit with attempted burglary charges.

Wheel bad

A thief swiped a man’s motorcycle from in front of a Douglass Street building on June 5.

The owner of the $4,900 Suzuki chopper told cops that he had left the bike between Fourth and Fifth avenues at around10 pm. When he went back to the rice burner at 11 am the next day, it was gone.

Bar bag

Yet another thief nabbed yet another bag when yet another barfly took her eyes off her purse on June 7.

In what has become a Police Blotter staple, a 26-year-old woman told cops that she was drinking at a bar on Fifth Avenue when, just after midnight, she noticed that her bag had been taken.

In all, she lost lots of cards, $30 and her Texas driver’s license from the bar, which is between Fifth and Sixth streets.

Digital don’t

A thief swiped hundreds of dollars in camera equipment from a car parked at a popular hardware megastore near the Gowanus Canal on June 7.

The victim told cops that he left the car — with his Canon digital camera, lens and memory card inside — in the parking lot at around 4:30 pm. When he returned one hour later, the stuff was gone.

All told, the crook got away with $1,170 in merchandise.

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