A would-be car thief turned violent when police arrived on April 8.
Police showed up at the corner of Morgan Avenue and Beadel Street at around 2:15 am and saw a crook trying to break into a red Chevy Lumina. When cops tried to make the arrest, the thug threw blows.
In the end, cops got the cuffs on their 51-year-old suspect.
Sidekicked
At least two local teenagers lost their flashy Sidekick cellphones this week in separate robberies.
• A crook snatched the fancy mobile from a 13-year-old’s hands as she texted a friend at around 3 pm on April 3 near the corner of Graham and Metropolitan avenues.
• A group of muggers preyed on a 14-year-old girl while at around 5:30 pm on April 7, punching and groping her until she handed over her cellphone at the corner of Metropolitan and Graham avenues.
The next day, cops collared a 16-year-old.
Crow-bad
Three thugs attacked a 45-year-old man with a crowbar on April 9, but cops were able to nab one of them the next day.
The crooks confronted the man at the corner of Frost Street and Kingsland Avenue at around 12:30 pm, striking him the head with the claw-headed metal bar. The attack left the man with a fractured leg and severe bleeding behind his swollen left eye. Police caught a 51-year-old suspect the following day.
Cutter
Two thugs mugged a man as he walked through McCarren Park on April 11.
The crooks confronted the victim at around 1:30 am between North 12th and Lorimer streets as he walked home from a friend’s house.
“What you got?” one of the crooks asked. “I will cut you.”
The crook wasn’t lying.
The victim forked over some cash, but the unimpressed thugs punched him in the face, leaving him bleeding. The crooks went through his pockets and removed $200, a cellphone and house keys.
