60th Precinct
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate
Cognac clobbering
A maniac randomly bashed a bottle of Hennessy cognac over the head of a 75-year-old man sitting on the Boardwalk on Aug. 30.
The victim was sitting on a bench near W. 15th Street at 7:25 am when the ruffian struck, a police report stated. The victim, who had a bleeding gash on his head, was taken to Coney Island Hospital, officials said.
Hate attack
A group of goons robbed a man while using homophobic slurs during an Aug. 29 attack on Surf Avenue.
The 33-year-old victim was near W. 24th Street at 8:30 pm when a beast kicked him and punched him in the nose with a closed right fist, officials said. The assailant’s accomplices took the victim’s tote bag and keys while calling him a “faggot,” according to police.
The victim told police he believes he was targeted because of his sexual orientation, as the same attackers had called him the term in the past, although he had never reported it.
Curbside stabbing
A knife-wielding knave stabbed a man in the thigh on Ocean View Avenue and made off with his bracelet mid-morning on Aug. 24.
The victim was entering his car, parked between Brighton Sixth and Brighton Seventh streets, at 10:20 am when an unknown brute hit him in the head from behind with an unknown object, causing a bump and a small cut to the back of the victim’s head, police said.
The crook snatched a bracelet from the victim’s wrist and stabbed him three times in the left thigh, authorities reported.
Vehicular vandal
A tool thief tampered with a parked car on Aug. 25, rendering the vehicle immovable from its spot on Bay 49th Street.
The car’s owner told police he parked the car near Harway Avenue, locked it, and returned the next day at 4:30 pm to find the doors unlocked and the ignition broken, a police report said. The owner could not start the car, and noticed some tools missing, cops said.
Screwdriver gang
Three marauders used the threat of a screwdriver attack to coerce a man into giving up his cellphone on Brighton Fifth Street on Aug. 24.
The victim told cops while he was sitting on his stoop near Brighton Beach Avenue just after midnight when three men approached him and asked, “What’s your ’hood?”
When the victim’s cellphone rang, the men put a screwdriver against his side, slapped him, and took his cellphone, police reported.
— Eric Faynberg
