Apartment hunting
It’s every apartment-seekers worst nightmare — falling prey to a phony broker.
A con artist hoodwinked two female roommates out of $2,600 on Aug. 27 for a deposit and rent on an apartment she didn’t even control.
The victims, aged 24 and 25 and now living on Willoughby Avenue, claim a 30-year-old imposter with dreadlocks fleeced them out of cash, which they handed over to her on the corner of Clermont and Myrtle avenues at 5 pm.
Family jewels
A married couple suspect that electricians working inside their Gates Avenue home on July 25 purloined dozens of pieces of jewelry.
The crime wasn’t detected until Aug. 1 and was only reported a month after that, on Sept. 2, for unknown reasons.
Back at the time of the alleged robbery, two of the skilled laborers working in the basement from 8 am to 3 pm asked to use the bathroom — which the husband and wife believe gave them an opportunity to rob them blind.
About a week later, the 40-year-old woman discovered that much of the precious stones and metals in the house, including her wedding band and engagement ring, were gone.
Hard rock
Four hooligans tried to carjack a man and injured his children as the father dropped the youngsters off at their Carlton Avenue home on Sept. 7.
The ambush began at 7:15 pm between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street when the quartet tried to drag the 32-year-old dad out of his parked vehicle. He fought them off, but they snatched away his necklace.
The paterfamilias then drove off, but someone in the attacking quartet hurled a rock at his rear window. The pane shattered and the flying shards cut several of his backseat tykes.
Hammer head
A man bashed another mn in the noggin with a hammer on Flatbush Avenue Extension on Sept. 9, and was soon arrested for his heads up fighting.
The victim and attacker were locked in an argument between Willoughby Street and Myrtle Avenue at 8 pm when the 23-year-old suspect swung the tool and connected with his verbal adversary’s cranium. According to the police report, it caused “serious physical injury.”
Retaken
A quick-thinking man foiled a mugging on the corner of Waverly and DeKalb avenues on Sept. 5.
Three hoodlums stole the 29-year-old man’s iPod and phone after they simulated possession of a gun at 3:45 pm and stated, “Let’s make this quick. Where’s the money?”
The victim then pleaded for help from a passerby, but it was just a ruse to distract the muggers. He then yanked the iPod and cell back and chased, but could not catch, the miscreants to an apartment on Clinton Avenue.
Red handed
Police nabbed a man stealing copper pipes from a Vanderbilt Avenue apartment on Aug. 31.
Cops observed the 56-year-old suspected burglar inside the residence, between Gates and Greene avenues, at 11:47 pm and carrying a duffel bag crammed with bolt cutters and precious metal piping.
Stop and shop(lift)
A teenager’s eyes were too big for his own good, as security guards put the kibosh on his gargantuan shoplifting attempt from a Flatbush Avenue department store on Sept. 1.
The 19-year-old alleged thief tried to leave the national retailer, between Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place, at 10:23 am laden with stolen CDs, DVDs, video game controllers, a can opener, a knife, cellular phones, cameras and headphones but the heist wasn’t easy to conceal. Security guards detained him until police arrived to make an arrest.
— Mike McLaughlin
