62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Take the call
A wacko whacked a guy with a phone in a New Utrecht Avenue bodega on April 14.
The attacker, a woman in her 30s, hit a 55-year-old man in the head with a cordless phone in a deli between 78th and 79th streets in Bensonhurst at 3:10 pm, police said.
Ganged up on
A gaggle of gangbangers savaged a guy on the corner of Bay Parkway and 72nd Street in Bensonhurst on April 18.
The toughs approached their victim at 2 am and asked if he was in a gang, and then pounced on him when he told them he was unaffiliated, police said.
The ruffians took the guy’s cellphone and $5, and told him they were part of California-based gang Southside 13, a police report states.
Chump change
Two masked gunmen robbed a Bay Ridge Parkway deli for a paltry sum on April 17.
The heat-packing duo walked into the bodega between 16th and New Utrecht avenues in Bensonhurst waving their guns at 8:10 am, police said.
The pair took $40 from the register and $1 from the clerk, officials said. When the victim tried to call her husband, the galoots took her phone as well, a police report states.
Pipes pinched
A clod copped $74,596 in plumbing supplies from a W. Sixth Street business on April 16.
The store’s owner was opening the shop between avenues S and T in Gravesend when he noticed the lock to the cellar was missing, police said. He took an inventory of the basement and realized the supplies were gone, a police report states.
Boozy burglar
A thirsty thief stole iPads, heating equipment, and bottles of liquor from a 17th Avenue heating supply store on April 17.
The boozy burglar broke into the store between 80th and 81st streets in Bensonhurst at 4 pm and took the goods, police said.
— Max Jaeger
