88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Man robbed at gunpoint inside Ingersoll Houses apartment
A man was robbed at gunpoint inside his Ingersoll Houses apartment on Jan. 15.
The victim told police that someone knocked on his door just after midnight. When he opened it, an unknown person barged in holding a black handgun. The perp pointed the gun at the victim, cops said, and told him to get on the floor. He quickly grabbed the victim’s PlayStation 5, iPhone 13 and Apple Watch, along with a wad of cash — all told worth more than $5,600 — and fled.
Alleged grocery thief arrested after Wegmans heist
Police arrested a man they said stole several items from the Wegmans grocery store on Jan. 10.
According to police, a 59-year-old man entered the Flushing Avenue supermarket at about 6 p.m., grabbed a rack of lamb, a pack of beef steak and a case of ginger ale and walked out of the store, strolling past the cashiers without paying. The stolen items were worth about $90, and the incident was captured on video. Days later, police located the thief, who had allegedly been served with a trespass notice at Wegmans, and arrested him.
Mailbox thief cashes stolen checks
Someone fished a pair of checks out of a Fort Greene mailbox and cashed them in their own account.
The victim dropped two checks — one for just over $5,000 and one just over $1,000 — in a USPS mailbox at the corner of Ashland Place and Willoughby Street back in June 2025, police said. On Jan. 12, the woman called her bank and discovered that the larger check had been cashed in an unknown location, while the smaller check was still unaccounted for. There was no camera footage of the incident available, police said.
Motorcycle stolen near Fort Greene Park
Someone made off with a motorcycle parked near Fort Greene Park on Jan. 6.
Cops said the driver parked his 2024 Yamaha Tenere on Adelphi Street, near DeKalb Avenue, at 8 p.m. When he returned just before 11 p.m., the bike had disappeared. The victim said he had all keys for the bike on his person. He did have a tracker on the bike, though, which had pinged on Laurel Hill Boulevard in southwest Queens. Officers there searched for the bike without success, police said, leaving the wherabouts of the roughly $10,000 bike a mystery.
