An employee from Giuffre Kia was robbed of over $125,000 in receipts — as well as his wheels — just as he was about to drop off the cash and checks at a local bank, officials said.
Police were told that the 26-year-old employee was heading over to the TD Bank branch on Fifth Avenue near 82nd Street when two men confronted him, motioning to their shirts as if they had a handgun hidden underneath.
One of the men yanked the deposit bag containing the money out from under his left arm. But when the stunned victim didn’t balk, the pushy thieves pressed on.
“You know what, give me the car too,” the thief said as he snatched the keys to the victim’s 2007 Honda Accord from his hands.
The victim ran off as the second thief tried to take his cell phone. He told police that he heard the duo get into his car and drive off down 82nd Street toward Fourth Avenue.
Cops were still looking for the thieves as this paper went to press.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to come forward. Calls, which will be kept confidential, can be made to the 68th Precinct at (718) 439-4211.
A 14-year-old junior high school student had his arm sliced open during a fight over a girl last week.
Police were told that the victim, a student at McKinley Junior High School, was at the corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway and 68th Street at 3:30 p.m. on October 6 when he got into an argument with a 15-year-old high schooler — the older brother of a female acquaintance.
As the two quarreled, the older teen pulled a knife and lunged, catching the victim’s left forearm and back, officials said.
The victim ran home. When his parents took him to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment, police were called.
No arrests have been made.
Thieves desperate for picture-perfect quality and super surround sound broke into a Narrows Avenue home to snatch a 32” high-definition television, officials said.
The 48-year-old victim said that someone forced open the front window to his apartment near 68th Street sometime after 2 p.m. on October 6.
The television, valued at $1,200, was the only thing taken, he said.
Neighbors told police that they saw a white male in his fifties with short black hair lug the television from the home and into a 1992 SUV that afternoon.
A Ridge Boulevard woman reported that someone entered her home and swiped a laptop computer off her kitchen table.
The 29-year-old returned to her apartment near 94th Street at 4 p.m. on October 8.
When she reached the front door, she learned that someone had jimmied open the lock, leaving it jammed, cops were told.
Over $2,400 in property magically disappeared from a Bay Ridge Avenue man’s home last week.
The 29-year-old owner said that when he returned home at 11 p.m. on October 4, something was amiss.
Lots of things were missing, too: a pair of laptop computers, a digital camera and an iPod.
Cops, however, could not determine just how the thief entered the home located near 11th Avenue.
The mystery continued as this paper went to press.
Police are looking for the thief who raided and ransacked a 14th Avenue apartment near 63rd Street.
The 31-year-old tenant told police that she returned home following an afternoon of errands at 4 p.m. on October 6 and discovered that someone had forced her door open.
Whoever came inside tossed about the apartment, taking approximately $500, some checks and several credit cards, police said.
Cops are looking for three thugs who beat and robbed a 58-year-old man as he walked down 86th Street Sunday.
The victim said that he was nearing 15th Avenue just after midnight on October 11 when the three males jumped him.
The suspects punched and kicked the victim as they rifled through the man’s pockets, taking his credit cards and a debit card, officials said.
Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.
Calls can be made to the 62nd Precinct at (718) 236-2611. All calls will be kept confidential.
