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Drive-by mugging

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Drive-by mug

A thug held up a 28-year-old woman on Feb. 18 and fled in a car.

The crook approached the victim from behind at the corner of Wythe Avenue and North 10th Street just after midnight.

“Give me all your s—,” the thug demanded.

The victim handed over he camera, iPhone, credit card, sunglasses, and wallet, and the thief fled in a gas-guzzling SUV, cops said.

Pocketbook crooks

The rampant streak of purse-snatchings continued in North Brooklyn last week, where thieves snatched at least two unattended pocketbooks on Feb. 15:

• A crook grabbed a Bedford Avenue shopkeeper’s purse when she left it unattended while opening her store at around 12:30 pm.

The thief grabbed the bag, which was hanging on a fence outside the shop near the corner of North 10th Street, while the 26-year-old victim raised the security gate. When the victim went to retrieve the purse, which contained credit cards, debit cards, money orders, bracelet and keys, it was gone.

• A thief pilfered a purse in a Bedford Avenue café between 2:30 pm and 3:45 pm.

The hoodlum tore through the bag, which contained credit cards, debit cards, and an ID, and escaped from the coffeehouse near the corner of North Fifth Street.

Bad spot

A bad driver and his passenger turned criminal when they got into a fight with off-duty cops on Feb. 19.

Three officers told the suspected pugilists to move their illegally parked car from a spot on Meserole Avenue between Jewel and Moultrie streets at around 6:40 am — but the passenger objected and attacked the cops, police said.

The suspect struck one of the cops in the mouth, pinned another against a parked truck, and injured a third in the fisticuffs, but was eventually arrested.

Bottle service

An argumentative assailant shattered a beer bottle across a 24-year-old’s face in Feb. 15 dispute.

The attack occurred at around 3 am near the corner of Manhattan and Driggs avenues after the perp made a not-so-polite comment about the predilictions of the victim’s girlfriend, cops said.

The assault left the victim with a deep laceration near his right eye that was treated by a plastic surgeon, cops said.

MyMac

Crooks stole iMac computers from two North Brooklyn apartments last week:

• Burglars pried their way into a Humboldt Street apartment on Feb. 19, damaging the front door while the 26-year-old victim was at work between 10:30 am and 8:30 pm. Once inside the apartment, which is between Withers and Jackson streets, the crook snatched two computers and an iPod.

• Perps shattered a glass panel of a front door to snatch an iMac from a Metropolitan Avenue apartment on Feb. 20. The thieves grabbed the goods from the apartment, which is between Manhattan Avenue and Leonard Street, and fled between 8 am and 10 pm.

— Ben Muessig

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