78th Precinct
Park Slope
Cab baddie
A surly commuter snatched back his cab fare tried to stab the driver on Atlantic Avenue on July 14, cops said.
The taxi driver says he got into a dispute with a customer obetween Sixth and Flatbush Avenues around 1:10 pm about the fare from Queens to Brooklyn. The crank got angry and took back the $20 he had given the driver, and pulled a knife and tried to stab him, cops say.
The victim had lacerations on his hands from trying to block the knife, according to a police report.
Storage break
Someone stole a stash of automated teller machine parts worth almost 10 grand from a Fourth Avenue storage facility on July 17, officials stated.
The victim told cops he was home when the thief broke into his storage unit near Sixth Street sometime between 2 am and 2 pm and ran off with an estimated $9,650 worth of parts.
Window climber
A raider climbed into a Warren Street apartment through a window and stole two laptops in the early morning hours of July 19, according to police.
The victim says she left two laptops on the table of her apartment near Fourth Avenue when she went to bed around 12:30 am, but when her roommate came home at 1 am the laptops were gone.
The victim told cops she heard noises after she went to bed, but she had thought it was her roommate coming home. The sneaky snatcher left the rear window open, which had been unlocked, according to a police report.
— Allegra Hobbs
