62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
A crap-sy attitude
An argumentative goon robbed a guy at a Cropsey Avenue gas station on March 9, according to a police report.
The two got into an argument at the station near 19th Avenue around 9:30 pm that soon escalated into fisticuffs. The thief punched his victim in the face, knocking him down.
He then grabbed some unspecified electronics and the victim’s Chicago Bulls hat, hopped in his car, and fled down Cropsey Avenue towards Bay 22nd Street, police said.
Bag snatcher
A brutish baddie robbed a woman on Bay Parkway on March 10, police said.
She was near 82nd Street around 12:45 am when the guy came up from behind, pushed her down, and grabbed her handbag. He got away with $40 in cash and some of her debit and credit cards, according to police.
Good dog
A burglar was caught red-handed while breaking into a W. Eighth Street home on March 7, by the owner’s perceptive pooch, police said.
The victim was sleeping in his bedroom at his home between Bay Parkway and Avenue O around 3 pm when his pup’s barks coming from a rear bedroom awoke him. He investigated and found a housebreaker standing outside the window with the screen open and blinds pulled.
When the homeowner went outside to talk to the intruder he was nowhere to be found.
Lock cutters
A pair of burglars broke into a construction site on McDonald Avenue overnight on March 8, police said.
The last workers left the site between Kings Highway and Billings Place around 2:30 pm and returned in the morning to find the locks to the gate cut and a number of construction tools missing, according to police.
Car swiped on 19th Ave.
A car thief stole a man’s ride on 19th Avenue overnight on March 11, according to police.
The guy parked his car near 73rd Street around 9:30 pm and came back the next morning to grab it, but it was nowhere to be found, police said.
— Dennis Lynch
