61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Generation why?
Cops are hunting a 19-year-old man who they say cracked a 74-year-old man in the eye with his elbow on Stryker Street on Nov. 1.
The victim told police that he was sleeping in his apartment between Stryker and Southgate courts at 4:30 am when the younger man woke him up and they started yelling at each other. The details of their bickering remain unclear, but the dispute was fought over drugs, cops said.
Eventually, the suspect clocked the old man on his left eye, according to the victim. The older man did not report having any of his property stolen.
Bar brawl
Two thugs beat a man outside of an Avenue Z watering hole on Nov. 1, and then stabbed him in the gut.
The victim told police that he was inside a bar between E. 26th and E. 27th streets at 2 am when some fellow waved him outside, and he followed. Once outside, the crook punched the victim in the face, before drawing a blade and sticking it in the man’s stomach, then slashing his left arm.
As the victim cradled his bleeding wounds, a second crook who had been lurking behind the victim crept up and bashed the back of his head, leaving him dazed as the thugs made their escape.
Bad company
Police arrested a man who they say was part of a botched W. First Street home invasion on Oct. 31.
The victim told police he was returning from a night out at the bar to his home between Avenue W and Village Road South at 5:20 am, with some new company — a man and another person, whose gender the victim couldn’t recall.
Once at his home, either one or both of the guests offered the victim sex, and when he was in bed the male suspect grabbed a knife and pressed the blade against the victim’s throat, cops said.
“Where’s the money?” the suspect allegedly barked.
Cops say the suspect and his accomplice then beat the victim, leaving him with a bloody nose and swollen eye.
When he spoke to police, the victim was unable to say whether any property had been stolen.
The suspect was arrested when he tried to flee out of a back window and fell onto an awning, alerting a nearby police officer, who arrested him.
The other crook was able to flee on foot, and cops are listing the gender as unknown, since the victim couldn’t say.
Ninja robber
A knife-wielding crook wearing all black robbed a 57-year-old man on Avenue Y on Oct. 28, taking his cash and cellphone.
The victim told police that he was near E. 24th Street at 10:10 pm when the suspect crept up from behind. The black-clad knife-wielding crook, who used body gestures instructed the victim to hand over his valuables.
Throughout the attack, which yielded $400 and an Optimus L9 cellphone, the thief never uttered a single word, cops said. After the crook fled, the victim called police, who searched the area but couldn’t find the fiend.
Bluff called
Cops are looking for a gun-wielding thug who they say tried — and failed — to rob a 20-year-old woman on Oct. 28.
The victim told police that she was between Avenues V and U at 7 pm when the goon approached and pointed a pistol at her.
“Don’t make me hurt you,” the crook snarled.
But the victim called his bluff, made a run for it, and the gunman did not follow, cops said
Stay out
Cops are hunting for a gunman and a wheel man, whose scheme to rob a man on Bragg Street on Oct. 26 failed, after the victim slammed his door in their faces.
The victim told police that he was meeting the goons inside their car between Avenues W and X at 12:45 pm, in order to complete what he described as, “a business transaction.”
Once inside the crooks’ car, however, one of the two pulled a silver pistol on the victim and shoved it into his ribs.
“Where’s the money?” the goon barked. “You think I’m playing?”
The cool-headed victim told the crooks that his money was inside his house and that he would have to go retrieve it. Instead of going to his own house, however, the victim led his robbers to a friend’s house and, when he got inside, he told police that he abruptly slammed the front door in the crook’s faces. The men the fled, according to the victim, taking $2, his driver’s license, and the keys to his house, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
