61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Not fare
A crooked unlicensed cabbie beat up and robbed a man for an extra $20 on top of his fare on King’s Highway on Nov. 10.
The victim told police the two agreed to a $60 fare for the trip, but when he got out at the corner of E. Third Street a little after 7:30 pm, the cabbie wanted more.
He parked the car and allegedly grabbed his passenger, demanding another $20. At first the passenger refused, but once the cabbie started hitting him over the head, he coughed up the extra dough, according to the police report. If that was not enough, the cabbie drove off with the passenger’s cellphone he left in the car, cops noted.
Pharmacy frisked
An armed man robbed a pharmacy on Avenue V on Nov. 13.
Two cashiers told cops they were in the pharmacy near Coyle Street around 6 pm when the brute whipped out a handgun and demanded they give him “everything you have.”
One handed over his cellphone, and the other loaded up a plastic bag with $1,400, before the villain fled with the good, police said.
Deceptive delivery man
A burglar got into a woman’s Emmons Avenue apartment by posing as a delivery man on Nov. 10.
The masquerading thief rang the woman’s doorbell at her apartment near Bragg Street around 1 pm and said he would leave a package in the lobby for her. She told police she left her door open and went down to grab the package, but found there was no package at all.
She came back to her apartment to find a man standing in her apartment, cops said. She asked him what the heck he was doing in her place, to which he replied that he left a package for her in the bathroom, and then fled with some cash, authorities reported.
Rooftop raider
A burglar broke into a woman’s apartment on E. 14th Street on Nov. 15 and stole some jewelry.
The victim told police someone broke into her abode between Avenues R and S through a rooftop balcony door sometime between 3 and 5 pm and grabbed the goods from a nightstand in her bedroom.
Coffee shop caper
A heavy-handed burglar broke into a coffee shop’s basement office on King’s Highway sometime overnight on Nov. 10.
Police say the trespasser managed to power down the surveillance system in the building between McDonald Avenue and got in to the cafe by punching a hole through some drywall in an apartment next door, which did not have a lock on its doorway.
He headed for the basement office and made off with $1,500 worth of goods.
— Dennis Lynch
