April 29, 2009 / Brooklyn news / Police Blotter / Greenpoint

Bikejacked!

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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Bikejacked!

Three thugs pushed a 17-year-old off of his bike on April 25 and pummeled him with a baseball bat until he turned over his cycle.

The victim was riding his Mongoose home from McCarren Park at around 5 pm, when he heard someone shout, “Give me your bike.”

Before he could respond, the crooks pushed him off of his cycle at the corner of Bayard Street and Union Avenue and started punching, kicking, and beating him in the body and face with a baseball bat. The thieves escaped with the two-wheeler.

MyPhone

Cops returned a stolen iPhone to a 24-year-old woman after nabbing a teenage perp suspected of heisting the cell on April 24.

The 16-year-old perp allegedly grabbed the fancy phone from the victim’s hand at the corner of Lorimer and Bayard streets at around 2:20 pm and dashed away.

But minutes later, cops chased down the suspect — still carrying the stolen phone in his backpack, police said.

Union jacked

A thief heisted a 26-year-old’s handbag from a bench inside the popular watering hole Union Pool on April 18.

The crook grabbed the purse, which contained the victim’s Blackberry, debit cards and camera, between 2 and 4 am and dashed out of the bar, which is at the corner of Union and Meeker avenues.

Drive-by mugging

A hoodlum with a getaway car heisted a 28-year-old woman’s bag as she walked home from a bar on April 24.

The mugger yanked the woman’s purse from her shoulder as she passed the corner of Franklin and India streets at around 3 am.

Once he gained possession of the purse — which contained jewelry, credit cards, a checkbook, wallet, iPod Nano, and a cellphone — the thief hopped into a double-parked Nissan sedan and drove off.

Rear window

Thieves are climbing through fire escape windows to pilfer North Brooklyn apartments, committing at least three such break-ins this week. Here are the shocking details:

• Crooks got into a Driggs Avenue apartment, between North Sixth and North Seventh streets, through a rear window and snatched a Nintendo Wii, Playstation, iPod and laptop between April 17 and April 20.

• An intruder climbed through a fire escape window and ransacked a North Fourth Street apartment between April 18–20, getting an Apple computer, camera, glasses and a hard drive from the unit, which is between Berry Street and Bedford Avenue.

• A marauder scurried through a Huron Street window overnight on April 25 and got cash, a passport, jewelry, and wallet from the apartment, which is between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street between 4 pm and 4 pm the following afternoon.

— Ben Muessig

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