62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
All for nothing
A crafty would-be burglar failed to break into an 18th Avenue business on June 25, but did plenty of damage in the process, according to police records.
The aspiring thief targeted the business between 76th and 77th streets around 1:30 am, cops said. First, he climbed over a rear fence and pushed down the cameras pointing to the back door. Then, he disconnected electrical wires from the building’s electrical box, killing all the power inside.
He ripped open a metal screen leading to the basement, but despite all his work, his heist was thwarted when he couldn’t budge the basement door, and he left empty-handed.
Insult and injury
Two nogoodniks shook down a guy on New Utrecht Avenue on June 20, according to a police report.
The victim was between 81st and 80th streets around 4:35 pm when the duo asked him for money. They did not wait for a response though — one went through his pockets, grabbed his wallet, and took out his cash. Then the guy punched him in the face and fled with his pal towards 79th Street with their small prize.
Bat and run
A reckless reprobate hit a cycling teen over the head with a bat on June 22, police said.
The teen was riding between 21st Avenue and Bay Parkway around 1:20 am when a guy pulled up from behind him in a car. The goon sitting in the passenger seat leaned out with his bat in his hand and whacked the victim across the back of the head as they drove by, according to police.
Internal Revenue Scammers
Some filchers posing as Internal Revenue Service employees got $7,700 out of a Van Sicklen Avenue woman on June 22, police said.
The phony government workers called the woman at her home between Avenues T and U around 10:30 am and told her that her mother owed money to the government.
They told her to buy $2,000 worth of Apple iTunes cards and to give them the serial numbers on the cards over the phone, then they told her to deposit the rest of the cash into a Bank of America account, which she did. Soon after this she called the real Internal Revenue Service and found out she was had.
— Dennis Lynch
