78th Precinct
Park Slope
Ganged-up assault
A band of brutal attackers beat a slightly intoxicated man as he exited a Fifth Avenue diner on April 1, cops said.
The 27-year-old victim told police that he was on his way home from the establishment near Ninth Street at 5 am.
He asked two men on the street for a cigarette and when the criminals noticed that the victim had been drinking they started to punch him in the face and kick him. The man tried to protect himself by blocking his face, but was unable to.
Three other perps who were watching from inside the diner then ran out and joined in the bashing.
“Keep going mother——-,” yelled one of the villains as two of them rummaged through the victim’s pants and coat pockets for valuables.
The criminals made off with a credit card, driver’s license, school identification card, and MetroCard.
Two of the perps fled the scene in a black Sedan, as did the other three in a dark-colored Sedan, police said.
Sunday school theft
Someone stole a teacher’s wallet while she was working at an Eighth Avenue private elementary school on April 7.
The 50-year-old educator told police that she left her bag in the library of the building near Seventh Street while she was instructing a class of kids at 11 am.
When the teacher went to fetch her pocketbook an hour and 15 minutes later her Prada wallet — holding $254 and her credit and debit cards — was missing.
Inside heist
Someone looted at least $10,000 in cash from a Fourth Avenue bodega on April 2.
The 59-year-old owner of the store told cops that his one employee working at his establishment that day closed up the shop later that night.
When the proprietor returned to the store the next day at 9:30 am he noticed that the hefty sum of cash was missing and suspected that his employee did the job.
The owner went to the worker’s house, but he wasn’t there, according to police.
Thirsty intruder
A burglar broke into a Seventh Avenue apartment and made off with a bicycle sometime overnight on March 30.
The 44-year-old victim told police when he left his abode between 13th and 14th streets at 8 pm and returned the next day at noon.
During that time the crook maneuvered his way in the apartment through the back window and drank from a glass of wine that was left out on the kitchen counter before escaping through the front door with the $1,500 black two-wheeler, cops said.
Pummeled for nothing
A violent criminal punched a man in the face multiple times on Park Place on April 2.
The 29-year-old victim told cops that he was walking between Seventh and Sixth avenues when the miscreant ran up to him and decked him in the face without stopping at 11 pm.
“You have five seconds to give me all you got or I’m going to kill you,” said the felon, according to cops.
The man responded that he didn’t have anything to give and the baseball hat-wearing perp fled without any stolen goods.
Bust
Cops collared a man who allegedly swiped two MacBook Pros and their chargers from a Fifth Avenue MacBook repair shop on April 6.
A proprietor told cops that the 49-year-old suspect broke the lock at the establishment between Lincoln and Berkeley places just minutes before 5 am.
Surveillance video shows the white glove-wearing criminal swipe the electronics, according to police.
Cash register robbery
A crook stole the cash register from a Seventh Avenue restaurant on April 2.
The owner of the establishment told police that he locked up the joint near Eighth Street at 2 am and when he returned at 8:30 am he noticed that the crook had removed the locked cylinder on the front door of the eatery.
Surveillance cameras show the criminal bust into the eatery at 2:50 am and leave with the cash register containing $100 in the drawer about 20 minutes later. He fled down Eighth Street, according to cops.
Break in
A thief burglarized a St. Marks Place apartment and got away with a bunch of electronics and money on April 4.
The 43- and 52-year-old roommates told police that they were both not at their abode between Fourth and Fifth avenues from 5 pm to 10 pm.
When they returned home they noticed that their front door was forcibly opened and their Apple laptop, two iPads, two cameras, and $300 in quarters was gone.
— Natalie Musumeci
Reach reporter Thomas Tracy at ttracy@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-2525.
