90th Precinct
Southside–Williamsburg
Sharp words
Two ruffians robbed a woman at knifepoint on S. Fourth Street on Aug. 23, cops say.
The two louts approached the victim near Hewes Street around 2 am and one of them drew a knife, saying “B—-, give me your s—”, according to a report.
The victim handed over her purse and the two miscreants took off toward Union Street, the victim told police.
Drive-thru robbery
A malicious duo held up a man and a woman at gunpoint on S. Fourth Street on Aug. 23, according to police.
The victims told police they were near Hewes Street around 2 am on their way home from a local bar when two reprobates got out of a nearby sport utility vehicle, and proceeded to threaten the two with a handgun.
One victim handed over his smartphone and wallet, which the two scoundrels fled with, cops say. The phone was later recovered on Johnson Avenue, according to a report.
Branching out
A mugger armed with a tree branch stole a deliveryman’s cellphone on Maujer Street on Aug. 18, cops said.
The victim was near Bushwick Avenue around 9:20 pm, in the middle of calling his customer, when a rogue attacked with him with the timber, striking him several times in the head, police said.
The robber then grabbed the victim’s cellphone and took off toward the Ten Eyck houses, a report said.
One heck of a sore throat
A pharmacy employee stole $2,700 and nearly 300 bottles of promethazine-codeine painkiller cough syrup from a pharmacy on S. Third Street between April and August, cops said.
The owner of the pharmacy near Berry Street recently noticed the $2,700 missing from the establishment’s bank account, and after investigating, realized that almost 300 bottles of cough syrup had been ordered over the last four months by the employee, but not inventoried, police said.
When the owner confronted the shady staffer, he stormed out of the pharmacy and has yet to return, according to a report.
— Harry MacCormack
