62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Everything but the kitchen sink
A Bensonhurst bandit busted into his neighbor’s 19th Avenue apartment and stole cash, jewelry, and a counter-top stove on April 17, police reported.
The victim only came forward about the crime on July 17, a police report shows. The resident said he locked his doors and windows before leaving his apartment between 83rd and 84th streets, and when he returned he found his stove gone along with jewelry and $1,550 in cash.
Socked in the street
Two toughs punched a guy in the face and tried to rob him on Bay 29th Street on July 22, according to the authorities.
The victim was walking between 86th Street and Benson Avenue at 1:40 am when the pair of lowlifes appeared and started beaning him in the dome and demanding money, law enforcement officials said.
One of the assailants grabbed the man’s backpack and rifled through it looking for cash, and when he found none, he threw the bag aside and began searching the victim’s pockets, police said. The victim called out for help and the attackers fled, officers said. The victim called 911 and was taken to Coney Island Hospital for treatment, a report states.
Snatch-and-grab
A ruffian snatched two chains from a 75-year-old woman’s neck in the lobby of her Quentin Road apartment building on July 18, according to a police report.
The woman got off her B82 bus at W. Fourth Street and Kings Highway at 1:30 pm, and the goon followed her to her apartment at the corner of Quentin Road and W. Third Street in Bensonhurst, according to police.
“If you want to live, give me your chains,” he supposedly demanded in Russian.
The bandit snatched two necklaces off of the woman and vamoosed, a report states.
Caught in the act
Two would-be tire thieves were caught red-handed by a Quentin Road man on July 20, police recounted.
The victim exited his home near W. Fourth Street at 3:40 am and saw two ne’re-do-wells wrenching the lug nuts off his wheels, officers said. The pair had already set up cinder blocks to rest the car on once they’d finished the deed, a report says.
But the man confronted the pair and they fled in separate directions, law enforcement officials said. One was picked up by a white van with Pennsylvania tags, police said. The second ran on Quentin Road toward W. Third Street, according to the authorities.
— Max Jaeger
