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

Man mugged, but crooks cuffed

By Jared Foretek

The Brooklyn Paper

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Stopped at scene

Four crooks assaulted and robbed a Greenpoint man on July 14, but two wound up with empty and cuffed hands.

Cops say that the 17- and 18-year-old suspects approached the victim on Graham Avenue at around 12:30 am and hit him in the back of the head. With the victim dazed, the men scooped up his cellphone and laptop and fled from the scene, which was near Newton Street.

Two were quickly snagged by police, but the others two got away.

Sex seen

A one-night stand took a criminal turn on July 15, when a seductive crook made off with a Greenpoint man’s belongings while he slept.

The victim had gone to the Sugarland Bar — which is on N. Eighth Street between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street — and hooked up with an gender unidentified pal and returned to his Roebling Street apartment “possibly drugged with an unknown substance,” the police report said.

The 30-year-old victim fell asleep, and when he awoke, he discovered that his apartment had been ransacked and the seducer had made off with cash, a cellphone, and iPod.

Peace out

A raucous criminal went nuts, yelling obscenities and eventually assaulting a police officer sent to subdue him on Franklin Street on July 15.

The 22-year-old hooligan was allegedly screaming on the corner of Milton Avenue at 1:45 am when the officer attempted to apprehend him.

But as the rabble-rouser was being cuffed, he head-butted the officer so severely that the cop required treatment at Bellevue Hospital.

Key snatchers

A gang of thieves mugged Greenpoint woman on Driggs Avenue early on July 17.

The four thugs approached the 26-year-old victim at the corner of N. Sixth Street and demanded that she open her bag.

Feeling threatened, the woman complied, and the perps got away with $40 and her keys in the 4:30 am attack.

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