88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Foul
Five goons stole a guy’s cellphone and backpack as he was walking home from a Vanderbilt Avenue basketball court on Oct. 7.
The 20-year-old victim was strolling near Lafayette Avenue at 7 pm when the one of the brutes stopped him and asked, “What are you jacking?” clenched his fist, and told him to take out his phone and unlock it, police said.
The curs then took the guy’s backpack, which contained his basketball, Jordan sneakers, and shirts, according to a report.
Smashed
A brute bashed a guy over the head with a metal pipe on Downing Street on Oct. 5.
The victim was near Fulton Street at 5:30 pm when the knuckle-dragger suddenly approached and hit him over the head, authorities said.
Unglassy
Some scofflaw threw a bar glass at a woman’s head in a Fulton Street club on Oct. 7.
The victim told cops she was in the lounge near Lafayette Avenue at 10:30 pm when the bozo hurled the glass at her face and then fled.
Bad hair day
A sneak lifted a stylist’s pricey hair-styling equipment from a Clermont Street apartment building on Oct. 3.
The coiffeur left her bag containing flat irons, curling irons, scissors, and a blow dryer on a table in the lobby of her building near DeKalb Avenue at 3:50 pm while she went upstairs to get her phone. But when she returned, her tools were gone, police said.
Steals on wheels
A weasel on wheels snatched a guy’s phone from his hand as he was standing on Hall Street on Oct. 6.
The victim was hanging out near Willoughby Street at 9:15 pm after he finished walking his dog when the rake grabbed the phone out of his right hand and rode off on his mountain bike, according to a report.
— Lauren Gill
