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What, $1 isn’t enough?

By Evan Gardner
for The Brooklyn Paper

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Pushy panhandler

A 13-year old boy was chased down and mugged by a particularly aggressive panhandler on Smith Street on May 26.

The kid told cops that he was walking to school between Wyckoff and Bergen streets at around 8 am when a man approached him and asked for change. When the boy responded that he didn’t have anything, the man grabbed his arm and yelled, “You’re lying — now give me money!”

The victim then pulled out $1 and gave it to the mugger, who apparently wasn’t satisfied with the limited largesse. Shaking the boy, he yelled, “You got more than that!”

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Freeing himself, the boy ran to his school and notified his teacher of the incident, but the perp was not caught.

Box burglar

A burglar pushed his way into a check-cashing store on York Street on May 27, robbing the place at gunpoint as the owner was closing up for the evening.

The owner of the outlet, which is between Bridge and Gold streets, told cops that he was locking up at 5:10 pm when a man burst in holding a handgun and a box. At gunpoint, the robber forced the owner to fill the box with cash, and then told him to lie on the ground, before running off.

The thief got away with $93,000.

Metro mugging

A man was mugged, apparently on a whim, by a passing gang of hoodlums in the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station on May 28.

The victim told cops that he was descending the stairs toward the subway at 7:20 pm when he was passed by four men exiting the station. As they passed, one of the perps grabbed the man’s Blackberry cellphone, and ran off, while another thug blocked him from chasing the mugger.

All four thugs escaped.

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