84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Soda jerk
A carbonated cretin roughed up an employee of a Johnson Street deli with a bottle of pop on May 18, according to a report.
The soda savage strolled into the deli near Prince Street at about 1:15 am, and soon got into some sort of verbal spat with the employee, cops said.
When words were not enough for the bubbly brute hoisted a two-liter bottle of soda and hucked it at the employee, striking his victim in the forehead and causing a laceration, which responders treated on the scene, according to police.
After tossing the bottle, the ne’er-do-well disappeared into the night, according to a report.
Class out, burglar in
An unknown lout broke into a Navy Street public school sometime between May 17 and May 18, according to police.
The miscreant crept in through an existing hole in the fence of the school between Nassau and Concord streets sometime between 4 pm on May 17 and 6 am on May 18 and removed a pin from the security gate on the window of one of the building’s windows, but did not appear to have stolen anything, cops said.
Not taking chances
A villain threatened and robbed a man on Bridge Street on May 18, according to a report.
The man was near York Street when a ruffian approached him from behind and stuck a hard object in his back, telling the victim, “Give me your phone or I’ll shoot you,” cops said.
In no position to decide whether he really had a gun to his back, the victim handed over his phone and the brigand dashed away with his loot, according to a report.
Brute force
Cops arrested a man who they say brutally assaulted a woman on Montague Street on May 19, according to a report.
A dispute between Henry and Clinton streets turned violent at around 1 am, when the suspect allegedly put the woman in a chokehold and repeatedly bashed her face against the sidewalk, causing her to lose consciousness, according to a report.
Police cuffed the alleged attacker, who hails from Downtown, and responders transported the woman to the emergency room at the former Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, cops said.
Snatch and grab
A pair of highway robbers swiped thousands of dollars in phone loot from a store on Montague Street on May 19, according to a report.
The two scallawags strode into the shop between Clinton and Henry streets shortly before 2 pm and swiftly snatched two iPhone 6s and two Samsung Galaxy phones, worth a total of about $2,900, before dashing out, cops said.
Out of pocket
A trio of louts robbed an elderly Queens man on a Manhattan-bound R train on May 1, cops said.
The 71-year-old man was minding his own business as the train pulled into the Downtown Dekalb Street station at noon when three brutes approached him, according to a report. One of the robbers flashed a knife while another reached into the victim’s pocket and extracted $778 in cold, hard cash, according to a report.
The predators then pushed the victim off the train and onto the platform as the doors closed, leaving him to watch the train and his money disappear into the tunnel, according to a report.
Grab bag
A thief swiped a bag as it momentarily rested on the ground at a busy Downtown subway stop on May 23, according to a report.
The victim, having departed a Manhattan-bound R train at about 3 pm, paused to light a cigarette at the Jay Street-Metrotech stop at the corner of Jay and Willoughby streets and left her bag on the ground as she did so, cops said.
As she lit the smoke, a crush of straphangers flooded out of the station, and when she went to to grab her tote, she realized it had vanished, according to a report.
The thief made off with an iPhone 5, a handful of credit cards, a temporary Ohio identification card, $100 in cash, medication, and the designer Kate Spade bag in which the loot was stored, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz
