78th Precinct
Park Slope
Brutal bashing
A vicious miscreant beat a man with a glass bottle for his iPhone on Ninth Street on Sept. 22.
“Is this iPhone worth your life?” the perp asked as he repeatedly struck the 31-year-old victim in the head with the glass bottle at 3:50 am on the block between Sixth and Seventh avenues.
The criminal ran off with the cellular device, leaving the victim with injuries to his head, according to a police report.
Big heist
Two perps looted more than $36,000 worth of supplies, including a bunch of cigarettes and medicine, from a Third Avenue storage facility on Sept. 16.
The 27-year-old victim told cops that he last checked on his wares inside the locked facility between First and Third streets at 3:50 pm. Two hours later his cousin returned and discovered the storage lock replaced with another lock.
The criminals made off with a bunch of items — including $5,000 worth of cigarettes, $15,000 worth of hookah supplies, $11,200 worth of medicine, a television, $1,300 worth of paper and plastic bags, hats, a camera, laptop, and tools — and then fled southbound on Third Avenue in a moving truck, according to a police report.
MyPad
Four crooks robbed a man for his iPad at gunpoint on 14th Street on Sept. 16.
The gang of criminals approached the man on the street between Third and Fourth avenues at 2 am and complimented his white iPad by saying, “nice iPad,” before flashing a gun.
The perps got away with the victim’s electronic device and $20.
Phone grab
A quick-handed bandit snatched a woman’s cellphone out of her hand while she was sitting on a Manhattan-bound B train at the Seventh Avenue stop on Sept. 17.
The 42-year-old victim told police that she was playing with her cellular device as the train pulled into the station at 1:20 pm. When the doors opened, the young hooded perp sitting across from her stood up, grabbed her phone, and ran off the train.
Ruthless mugging
A band of delinquents attacked a man for his wallet and cellphone on Eastern Parkway on Sept. 17.
The 30-year-old victim, who police said was intoxicated at the time, told cops that he was near Washington Avenue at 9 pm when six male teenagers and two female accomplices ran up to him and began punching and kicking him. The criminals made off with the victim’s wallet and cellular device.
Witnesses told police that the culprits kicked the victim numerous times as he was on the ground, according to a police report.
Clean swipe
A bandit stole a woman’s wallet from her while she was washing her clothes at a Fifth Avenue laundromat on Sept. 14.
The 35-year-old victim told cops that she was doing her laundry in the establishment near Saint Marks Place at 3 pm when she put her leather wallet — holding her passport, debit and credit cards, and driver’s license — in a plastic bag in her laundry cart.
The victim said that while she was folding her clothes the perp slipped her wallet out of the bag and walked off with it.
iBust
Cops cuffed a 15-year-old boy who snagged a man’s iPhone from his hand on Vanderbilt Avenue on Sept. 20.
The 24-year-old victim told police that he was taking a picture with his cellphone on the block between Bergen and Dean streets at 11 pm, when the suspect, who was with an unapprehended accomplice, grabbed the phone.
Officers caught the teen on the corner of Pacific Street and Franklin Avenue.
Ransacked
A crook looted a bunch of items, including $1,000, from a woman’s Eighth Avenue apartment on Sept. 17.
The 49-year-old woman told cops that she left her abode between Garfield Place and First Street to go to Manhattan at 12:30 pm. When she came back five hours later she discovered her apartment door unlocked, the drawers in her bedroom open, and her home wares tossed around.
The criminal made off with the cash, sterling silver jewelry, an Apple desktop computer, a clock radio, tools, and batteries.
Popped lock
A thief stole more than $1,800 worth of tools that were locked inside a man’s Butler Street garage sometime between Sept. 13 and Sept. 16.
The 44-year-old victim told police that he locked up the door of his garage near Nevins Street on Sept. 13 at 5:25 pm. When he returned two days later at 8 am he noticed that the lock was broken and his construction tools, including cordless screwdrivers, a power drill, and other assorted appliances, were missing.
Jacked two-wheeler
A lawbreaker poached a man’s Kawasaki motorcycle that was parked on 12th Street on Sept. 22.
The 22-year-old victim told cops that he left his white ride on the street between Fourth and Fifth avenues at 10 am and when he returned five hours later it was missing.
— Natalie Musumeci
