Two men –– each armed with a handgun –– burst into a Berry Street liquor store on March 15 and made off with thousands of dollars.
The gun-toting crooks entered the store just before 11 pm, shoved employees to the ground and pressed their revolvers to the workers’ heads. The criminals even knocked one employee out, hitting him on top of the head with a blunt object.
Victims told cops that the crooks tore through drawers and files before forcing an employee to open the register.
The crooks escaped from the store, which is between North Seventh and North Eight streets, with $4,000 from the register –– and $200 from the employees’ pockets.
Booze clues
Three men robbed a Norman Avenue bar on March 10, escaping with money and top shelf liquor, cops say.
The gun-toting criminals stormed in around 11 pm, showing their firearms and demanding money. Bar employees emptied the register, and one victim forked over his own cash, giving the crooks a total haul of $520. On their way out, the thugs grabbed two bottles of Petron and a bottle of Grey Goose.
Bad for your health
Two thugs broke a man’s rib while he waited for his food outside of a Norman Avenue eatery on March 11.
After placing his order at around 10 pm, the victim stepped outside the restaurant to have a cigarette. Suddenly, two strangers walked past the eatery, which is near Kingsland Avenue, and demanded that the man fork over his smokes. When he didn’t, the thugs threw the man to the ground, kicking him repeatedly in the chest, breaking at least one of his ribs.
The Clubbed
A “Club”-wielding man took a swing at a passerby who he thought was urinating too close to his car on March 15.
The victim of the clubbing told police that a man jumped out of a car parked on McGuinness Boulevard near Huron Street at around midnight, armed with an anti-theft club. He slugged the urinator in the eye, leaving him bloodied. Cops later nabbed the clubber.
Bad bar
Two women had their purses snatched when they left them unattended in a North Sixth Street bar.
A thief stole a woman’s Canon camera as well as her cellphone, passport, IDs, and credit cards from her purse on February 29. The woman had placed her purse on the seat next to her at around 9 pm and didn’t even realize it was missing until a bartender discovered it in the bathroom, empty.
Then, on March 12, a woman stepped away from her bar stool to take a few photos at around 3:30 am. When she was gone, a thief pounced, escaping from the bar, which is between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue, with the bag, which contained credit cards, a driver’s license, a passport and $50.
Tooling around
A crook broke into a Morgan Avenue apartment and got away with nearly $2,000 of power tools on March 11.
The burglar got in through an unlocked storm door in the backyard sometime after 6 pm, cops say. Once inside, he grabbed several power saws, an air conditioner, and miscellaneous plumbing parts from an apartment in the basement of the building, which is between Nassau and Driggs avenues.
Wheel trouble
Car thieves drove off with at least three new rides this week. Here’s a roundup:
• A driver who parked his Ford Taurus on Conselyea Street between Leonard Street and Manhattan Avenue on March 6 told cops that it was gone when he returned to it the next morning.
• Thieves stole a Meeker Avenue man’s Oldsmobile Cutlass after he left it unattended for three days. The thieves made off with the maroon sedan, which was parked near the corner of Kingsland Avenue, sometime between 1 pm on March 7 and 11 am on March 10.
• Crooks stole a woman’s Acura from its Greenpoint Avenue parking spot between 10 pm on March 8 and 6:45 am on March 10. The victim left the car between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street over the weekend and noticed that her white sedan was missing on Monday.
Dropped call
A crook snatched a phone from a woman’s hand as she walked towards the subway on Manhattan Avenue on March 13.
The thief ran up from behind the woman at around 3:45 pm, when she was between Conselyea Street and Metropolitan Avenue. He yanked the phone from her grasp, sprinting off with the $550 blue Sidekick.
