Calling all bullies

Police arrested one of two high school miscreants who threatened and mugged a classmate in the hallway of Brooklyn Tech on Sept. 8.

The 15-year-old victim told police that the troublemakers sidled up to him in the Fort Greene Place high school at 11 am and one of them, wielding a screwdriver, asked him, “What do you value more — your phone or your life?”

The young man tried to flee, but in textbook bullying fashion, one of the delinquents pinned him in a headlock, which compelled him to surrender his phone.

Police nabbed a 16-year-old after half of the duo made a call on the stolen mobile, chucked it down a stairwell and ran from the building.

Li’l old lady

In a real life cliche, a brute robbed a little, old lady on Lafayette Avenue on Sept. 2.

The ruffian intentionally collided with the 72-year-old woman at 1 pm near the corner of Classon Avenue, knocking her off balance and giving him the chance to snatch her purse.

He reached inside, took her wallet, which contained $724, several forms of ID and health care cards, and ran away.

Phone-y request

A teenager mugged a 12-year-old girl on Clermont Avenue on Sept. 8.

The thief approached the victim near the corner of DeKalb Avenue at 3:15 pm and asked if he could use her phone to call a car service, which was a strange request considering that he was sitting on a bicycle.

After getting shot down, the young goon took matters — and her cellphone — into his own hands before fleeing.

Tool’s gold

Everyone feels like he gets ripped off when renovating his home, but this time was the contractors at a DeKalb Avenue apartment who were swindled overnight on Sept. 9.

According to the construction crew, they left their tools in the apartment between Washington Park and Carlton Avenue at 3:45 pm and returned the next morning at 9 am to find that several saws, drills and other tools were gone.

They suspect the intruder climbed into the dwelling through an unlocked bathroom window in the back of the apartment.

Bump in the night

An Adelphi Street man said his house was burglarized while he slept overnight on Sept. 9.

The 50-year-old victim told police he started counting sheep at 11 pm, but when he awoke at 10 am, he began totaling his losses: $2,200, plus a $1,500 check.

There were no signs of a break-in at the abode between Lafayette and Greene avenues.

Lookout

An eagle-eyed, good Samaritan helped police arrest two men who broke into a car on the corner of Fulton Street and Irving Place on Sept. 12.

The witness identified two men he saw shatter a passenger-side window at 12:20 am and take out some materials from a commercial truck. The alleged culprits are 46- and 47-years-old.

Good dog

A man and his dog scared off a burglar trying to break into his Cambridge Place apartment on Sept. 13.

The resident’s canine started barking at the front door to the apartment at around 1:30 pm. The 26-year-old man checked it out and found a prowler with a wrench in his hand lurking in the building’s hallway.

The shamefaced hooligan fled the building, between Gates and Greene avenues.

— Mike McLaughlin

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