68th Precinct
Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights
Lounge attack
Two men were stabbed outside of a 62nd Street club on July 5.
One victim told cops he was smoking outside of the V Lounge near Eighth Avenue at 3:45 am when someone came behind him, put him in a chokehold and slashed his arm.
Another victim was stabbed in the abdomen.
It was not immediately clear whether the men were stabbed by the same person.
Purse snatch
A thief snatched a woman’s purse on Battery Avenue on July 7.
The victim told cops she was nearing 92 Street at around 8:50 pm when the perp grabbed her purse, then ran off.
Expensive lunch
Thieves made off with $5,000 from a delivery truck parked on Fort Hamilton Parkway on July 8.
The driver told cops he parked near 67th Street around 2:20 pm while he got some lunch.
When he returned at 3 pm, the passenger door lock had been picked and $4,918 in cash and checks was missing.
Lost and not found
Thieves busted a man’s car window and ripped off his satellite navigation device on Ninth Avenue on July 4.
The victim told cops he parked near 64th Street around midnight.
When he returned three hours later, he found his passenger window busted and his wallet and navigation system missing.
Losing weight
Pill heads made off with a bounty of cash and drugs after busting into a Fourth Avenue weight loss clinic on July 5.
Employees at the clinic, which is near 72nd Street, told cops the robbers broke in through a side window overnight. They arrived at 9 am the next day to find more than $5,000 in cash and 600 bottles of pills, worth $3,000, missing.
— Dan MacLeod
