88TH PRECINCT
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Stolen vehicle crashed after joy ride
Carjackers crashed a vehicle they stole from a Clinton Hill street on Jan. 11.
Police said the victim parked and locked her 2025 Audi Q8 on Lefferts Place, near Classon Avenue, just before midnight on Jan. 10.
At about 2 a.m., she got a notification from the Audi app that the car was no longer parked. Using an AirTag left in the vehicle, the woman tracked her car to a service road off the FDR Drive in Lower Manhattan and went out to find it. When she arrived, she met a cab driver, who said he had been in an accident with her vehicle and that its occupants had fled on foot. Cops later released the car back to the victim, but did not have leads on the thieves.
Man attacked inside Fulton Street supermarket
A supermarket worker was assaulted by a stranger inside his store on Jan. 8.
The victim told police the assailant entered Wholesome Market near Vanderbilt Avenue at around 6:30 a.m. When he told the perp to leave, the man tackled him against some shelves and to the ground, then punched him repeatedly in the head and neck. The incident left the employee with minor cuts to his head, neck, back and hands, and he refused medical attention on the scene. Video footage of the incident was available from the store’s cameras, police said, but the assailant got away before officers arrived.
Mob attack, rob teenager
A group of five people ganged up on a teenager on Jan. 4.
According to police, the 14-year-old victim’s mother said her son was going out to play basketball with friends at Walt Whitman Houses at about 5:30 p.m. While still inside, a group of four men and one woman forced him into the elevator and up to the seventh floor, where they pushed him around and slammed him to the ground. The teen lost his phone in the scuffle, though he wasn’t sure if it had been taken or fell out of his pocket.
Someone later told the victim’s friend where to find the phone, and it was recovered inside a garbage can nearby. The victim was not seriously injured, and cops secured Ring camera footage from the seventh floor.
Blank checks stolen from Fort Greene business
Two perps stole blank checks from a Fort Greene business on Jan. 8.
Cops said two men entered a check printing shop on Clinton Avenue shortly before noon. One distracted an employee, pretending to buy something, while the other slipped away and grabbed a full book of blank check paper — without names or account numbers — and walked outside. The book was worth thousands of dollars, the victim said.
