There was a wave of cellphone robberies last week, with all the suspects preying on teenage victims.
In the first incident, cops arrested a man who attempted to rob a teenager at gunpoint inside the Lorimer Street subway station on May 5.
The 16-year-old victim told cops he was going through the turnstile to catch the J train at around 4:30 pm when a man approached him and held a gun to his side. The thug then grabbed the victim’s phone and fled, but was caught by police a few blocks from the station.
Then, on May 9, someone snatched a young girl’s phone out of her hand as she walked down Walton Avenue.
The 13-year-old girl was walking away from her school when she pulled out her cell and started to make a call. As she held up the phone to her ear, a man ran past her and grabbed the $400 device out of her hand before disappearing down the street.
Finally, on May 11, a group of men beat and robbed a teenage girl as she entered her Humboldt Street apartment complex.
The five suspects followed the 16-year-old victim as she walked between Seigel and Boerum streets and into her building’s elevator at around 5 pm. Then, they surrounded her, punching her several times before grabbing her $350 cellphone and exiting the elevator on the fifth floor of the building.
De-greened
Someone stole a custom-built bicycle from inside a parked car on Grand Street on May 10.
The 36-year-old victim — a real environmental champion — told cops she locked the bike inside of her hybrid Toyota Prius and left the car on the corner of Marcy Avenue at around 11 pm.
When she returned to the car 12 hours later, one of the front windows was broken, and her $11,000 bike had vanished.
