November 5, 2008 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Greenpoint

Scammed on Craig’s List

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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Con-cert

A scam artist feigned interest in a pair of fancy speakers in order to con a Craigslist seller on Oct. 22.

The crook mailed the victim a phony money order for $2,380 in order to purchase the $470 speakers, then asked the seller — a Leonard Street man — to refund him.

The victim wired the crook the money before discovering that the conman’s check was false.

SCREAM!

A gun-toting ghoul masked like the villain in the horror film “Scream,” mugged a 25-year-old woman on Halloween.

The haunting hoodlum confronted the victim at the corner of Lorimer Street and Driggs Avenue at around 2 am.

“Give me your stuff,” he said, before revealing a small silver handgun.

The victim forked over her purse, which contained a wallet, $80, credit cards, IDs, and a checkbook. The mugger jumped into a waiting car, which drove off westbound on Driggs.

Just 25 minutes earlier, cops spotted a man wearing a “Scream” mask when they pulled over a car with darkly tinted windows, police said.

Horrifying Halloween

A Debevoise Avenue Halloween party turned scary when a reveler shot a 26-year-old partier twice in the face.

The gunman and the victim got into an argument the nearly fatal argument at around 1:45 am, when the vicious guest pulled the trigger — hitting the victim with two .380 caliber rounds, cops said.

The gunman fled from the party, which was near the corner of Skillman Avenue, and the victim was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he is in stable condition.

Crow-barred

Cops nabbed a burglar who threatened to pummel a Graham Avenue man with a crowbar and a hammer during a botched Oct. 31 robbery.

The thug pried his way into the building, which is between Conselyea Street and Skillman Avenue at around 1:30 pm — awaking the victim who was dozing in bed.

When victim confronted the would-be burglar, the crook menaced him with the tools, but police locked up a suspect before any blood was shed.

Gold fingered

Burglars went for the gold in Greenpoint this week, breaking into at least two apartments to steal jewelry.

• Crooks ransacked an Eagle Street apartment between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street on Oct. 27, leaving with a loaded jewelry box sometime between 8 am and 3 pm.

• A thief climbed through the front window of a home on Green Street between McGuinness Boulevard and Manhattan Avenue on Oct. 28 and snatched $1,880 of jewelry between 9:30 am and 3:20 pm.

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