April 15, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Park Slope

This handyman is level-headed

By Emilia Brock

for The Brooklyn Paper

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Level head

A man has been arrested for assault after he hit another guy in the head with a carpenter’s level on April 7.

The two men had been arguing in an apartment on 10th Street near Fourth Avenue. At around 9:30 am, the dispute turned violent as the perp picked up the valuable tool and bashed the victim on the head.

The victim was in and out of consciousness before being taken to the hospital where he got his head stitched up.

Scratch ’n’ steal

A thug armed with a three-foot metal pipe nabbed hundreds of Lottery scratch off tickets from the Sixth Avenue Deli on April 9, cops said.

The perp entered the store, which is on the corner of Sterling Place, at around 6:17 am, waving his pipe at the clerk. He grabbed the box, which had dozens of tickets from 32 various games, and ran out to a black car with no license plates.

Mock doc

A thief stole $1,350 worth of stuff from a doctor’s office on Eighth Avenue between March 25 and 28.

Police reported that the main suspect is a homeless man whom the victim befriended and allowed to work in his office, which is at Berkeley Place.

The crook stole bicycles, $550 and various tools from the doc’s office. The homeless man has been missing since the stuff was stolen.

1st-floor feast

A bandit bashed into a President Street apartment through the ground-floor window on April 9 and stole $22,050 worth of stuff.

The victim told cops that he had left his apartment, which is between Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West, at around 9 am. When he returned over six hours later, he quickly learned that an Apple computer, a Sony Playstation 3, a Nintendo Wii, luggage, clothing, jewelry and cosmetics were gone.

Vehicle vandals

At least five automobiles were stolen or broken into last week. Here’s the bad news:

• A man was caught breaking into a 2001 Volkswagen parked on President Street on April 7. The officers noticed the thief drinking booze in public and they followed him to the car, which was between Seventh and Eighth avenues. Cops moved in at around 11:20 am, when the drunken delinquent used a metal wire to enter the car and attempt to remove the airbags.

• A 2002 Honda Civic was stolen from its Eighth Avenue parking spot on April 7. The victim had left her car near the corner of Fourth Street at around 10:45 am.

• A thug smashed through the window of a 2004 Lincoln sedan, taking eight credit cards, a driver’s license and a two-way radio on April 7. The victim said he had left his car on 14th Street at around 6 am and returned to the spot, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 17 hours later.

• A thief stole a 2003 Honda Civic from 11th Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues on April 2. The car had been left there at around 3:30 pm, but it wasn’t there when the owner came back three hours later.

• A 2004 Vespa was stolen from its St. Johns Place parking spot between April 5 and 7. The victim left his fashionable moped between Fifth and Sixth avenues at around 6 pm, but when he came back 18 hours later, the little Vespa was nowhere to be found.

Emilia Brock

©2009 Community Newspaper Group