4-buck chuck

A fist-throwing mugger beat up a 15-year-old on DeKalb Avenue on Dec. 9.

At 3:30 pm near the corner of St. Felix Street, the assailant demanded the adolescent’s money and punched him several times in the face to drive home his message. The bleeding victim gave him all his cash, $4.

Teen wasteland

Cops cuffed two 18-year-olds who mugged two other adolescents on DeKalb Avenue on Dec. 8.

The victims said the ruffians took their money, $30, near the corner of Fort Greene Place at 5:02 pm. But officers who responded to their call were able to track down the hooligans.

Pushover

Two thugs tackled a 31-year-old woman and robbed her on St. James Place on Dec. 8.

The attack occurred at 12:25 am between Fulton Street and Gates Avenue. One of the ruffians said, “I have a gun. Where’s the money? Where’s the laptop?”

The victim did not have any money, but she did have a laptop and an iPhone. Not anymore, that is.

Car toon

A villain literally shattered the pre-dawn calm of Hall Street on Dec. 9 by breaking into a parked car.

The 2007 Chrysler, parked overnight between Park and Myrtle avenues, was infiltrated at approximately 5:30 am when the owner’s neighbor heard glass breaking. That was the sound of the passenger-side window splintering into fragments.

The looter took the radio and navigation system.

Teach breach

A lunching teacher’s wallet was stolen from her locker in an Adelphi Street middle school on Dec. 8.

The 26-year-old pedagogue told police she left her classroom unlocked and her keys to the locker sat on her desk while she was out from 11:45 am to 12;08 pm.

During that interval, someone apparently removed her wallet containing $2,000.

What’s in store

Burglars broke into a Lafayette Avenue bodega overnight on Dec. 11.

The owner told police that his clerks locked the store at 11 pm. When he arrived at 5:30 am the next day to open the shop, between Carlotn and Cumberland avenues, he found that the lock had been cut and a glass pane in the door broken.

The merchant told police the crooks took $200, 15 cartons of Marlboro smokes and several packages of phone cards. The greedy pilferers also tried to crack open the ATM, breaking it in the process.

— Mike McLaughlin

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