April 22, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Greenpoint

Eight is enough!

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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Eight attack

A mob of at least eight hoodlums held up a hard-partying 25-year-old at the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 11th Street early on April 19.

The gang confronted the victim — whom cops said was inebriated — just after midnight and hijacked his cellphone and cash, leaving him bruised and scraped.

Shin splints

An argument turned into an assault on April 17, when cops nabbed a Greenpointer suspected of striking a 31-year-old repeatedly in the legs with a wooden stick.

Cops locked up a 35-year-old suspect after he allegedly thwacked his victim in the knees and lower thighs at the corner of Franklin and Huron streets at around 7:45 pm.

Haul of music

A grifter snatched a 26-year-old concert-goer’s purse after she placed it on the stage of a prominent Northside venue on April 12.

The victim left her handbag — which contained her credit cards, Metrocard, wallet and cash on the stage of the North Sixth Street club Public Assembly at around midnight.

When the victim turned away from the performers — which included karaoke and a show by Genghis Tron — a crook grabbed her purse and fled from the venue between Kent and Wythe avenues.

Crime stoppers

Greenpointers tried to intervene in at least two North Brooklyn crimes this week — with mixed results. Here are the details:

• A Greenpoint Avenue resident almost nabbed three thieves who broke into his apartment and snatched two iPhones on April 17.

The victim returned to his home, which is between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street, at around 12:15 am and noticed that his door was ajar. When the victim peered out the window, he spotted one of the crooks climbing the fire escape towards the roof.

The brave North Brooklynite scurried up the fire escape, but he gave up chase when the thieves hopped onto the roof of an adjoining building.

• A Berry Street resident startled a burglar — averting a horrifying April 17 break in.

The crook climbed into the residence through a kitchen window at around 11:15 pm, but the would-be victim heard the thief’s footsteps from across the apartment.

When the resident of the apartment began to approach the perp, the crook made a shocking threat before dashing from the residence empty-handed.

“Don’t come out — I have a gun,” the thug said, before fleeing from the apartment, which is between North Eighth and North Ninth streets.

— Ben Muessig

©2009 Community Newspaper Group