September 9, 2009 / News / Police Blotter / Fort Greene–Clinton Hill

Lots of crime at Flatbush and Atlantic

By Ben Muessig

The Brooklyn Paper

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Target: Target

An armed robber heisted $1,300 from the Target department store on Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 2.

The perp masqueraded as a customer when he purchased in item at around 6:15 pm — but once the cashier opened the register he revealed his true intentions.

“Give me the hundreds. I have a gun,” he told the employee.

The victim handed over the cash, and the crook fled from the store, which is near the corner of Flatbush Avenue.

Marshall law

Thieves ransacked the Marshall’s department store on Atlantic Avenue on Sept. 6, implementing their own form of “Marshall law” in at least two purse snatchings. Here are the shocking details:

• A crook grabbed a handbag from a shopper’s cart inside the shop, which is between Fort Greene Place and South Portland Avenue, at around 3:30 pm.

The bad guy got away with the victim’s wallet, credit cards, IDs, and $250.

• Just 45 minutes later, a perp heisted another purse from a shopping cart.

The thief grabbed a 26-year-old’s handbag and escaped with her digital camera, credit cards, ID, library cards, sunglasses, and $200.

Flatbush slashing

Three women stabbed an 18-year-old woman with box cutters in a vicious Sept. 1 assault.

The attack started at around 11:55 pm, after the perps and the victim conversed near the corner of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues.

Then the crooks pulled out their blade and slashed the victim, causing several lacerations to her arms and chest. The victim eventually fought off her assailants, and might have stabbed one of them in the face, police reports indicate.

Rape escape

A courageous 36-year-old fought off a would-be rapist who cornered her in a Carlton Avenue stairwell on Sept. 3.

The sick crook grabbed the victim as she waited for an elevator in the public housing development near the corner of Fulton Street at around 3:25 am.

The attacker choked the victim and threatened her with a piece of glass as he dragged her towards a stairway.

“Take off your clothes,” he demanded.

But the victim fought back.

The perp punched the victim in the face and cut her with the glass, leaving her with a small laceration to her ear — but the victim eventually scared the assailant away.

The deviant fled down the stairs and the victim pursued him in an elevator and beat him to the ground floor, where she alerted security of the incident.

But security “refused to stop perp,” police reports indicate.

The victim chased her attacker two blocks to the corner of Cumberland Street and Atlantic Avenue, but she lost sight of him.

Cane and able

Muggers swung more wood than the Brooklyn Cyclones this week, using canes and wooden rods in at least three hold-ups. Here are the startling details:

• Four crooks jumped a 27-year-old and struck him on the head with a cane on Aug. 30.

The perps confronted the victim as he walked home on Carlton Avenue between DeKalb and Willoughby avenues at around 11 pm and clubbed him from behind. The thieves got away with a green backpack containing a spiral notebook.

• The next morning, four crooks — one toting a “wood rod” — struck a 27-year-old repeatedly when he refused to give up his valuables.

The sluggers struck the victim in the back of the head near the corner of Adelphi Street and Willoughby Avenue at around 4:50 am.

“Gimme everything, your money, and cellphone,” one of the thugs ordered.

The victim refused and fled, and the perps gave up.

• Barely an hour later, three crooks armed with a cane robbed a 22-year-old as he walked to the train.

The robbers ambushed the victim at the corner of Washington and DeKalb avenues at around 6 am and demanded that he hand over his belongings.

The victim gave up his Blackberry, credit cards, backpack, apartment keys, and $200, and the criminals fled.

Fulton felon

Cops locked up perp suspected of punching a 17-year-old in the face and stealing his skateboard on Sept. 5 after accusing the victim of throwing an egg.

The assailant — accompanied by two accomplices — confronted the victim and his friends at the corner of Fulton Street and Vanderbilt Avenue at around 1:30 am and asked them whether they had chucked an egg at the trio.

The victim and his pals said no, but the crooks weren’t pleased with their answer and attacked the teen, leaving him with a bloody nose.

They fled with the teen’s skateboard, but cops arrested one suspect who was able to give the location of the skateboard.

Motorbike bilked

A thief heisted a Kawasaki motorcycle from its spot near the corner of Clinton and Myrtle avenues overnight on Sept. 4.

The crook stole the red 2005 bike — valued at $3,000 — between 6:30 pm and 9 am.

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