94th Precinct
Greenpoint–Northside
Empty threats
A pair of jokers threatened to stab a guy and then stole his property on N. Fourth Street on Aug. 12.
The victim told police he was talking on his phone while walking between Berry and Bedford avenues at 11:50 pm when the two came up behind him and grabbed the phone out of his hand.
Then the other robber started going through the victim’s pockets and took his backpack.
“Don’t make this hard on yourself,” one of them told him. “Don’t make me stab you.”
They took the victim’s laptop computer, iPhone, wallet, backpack, and cash and ran off down the street. The victim told police he waited two hours to call them because he was “in a state of shock.”
Stick ’em up
A robber pretending to have a gun in his waistband stole from a guy on Bushwick Avenue on Aug. 15.
The victim told police that he was near Skillman Avenue on his way home from the L train at 3:45 am when the robber cut in front of him and stuck his finger in his waist as if he had a gun.
“If you move I will f—— shoot you,” the robber said. “Give me your phone.”
The victim took his wallet out of his pocket and gave it to the robber, but he was not satisfied and asked for more. The victim then handed over his cellphone and the robber ran down Skillman Avenue.
Gassing it up
A gassy robber held up a Morgan Avenue service station with a gun on Aug. 15.
The clerk told police that the robber stormed into the station between Anthony Street and Meeker Avenue at 10:50 pm brandishing a gun.
“Give me your money,” the robber said, while pointing the gun in the clerk’s face.
The brazen clerk refused and grabbed the gun and the two struggled until the robber got his gun back and ran out the door.
He said ‘no’
A man allegedly strangled his girlfriend on Norman Avenue on Aug. 12 because she asked him to go to rehab.
The 30-year-old woman told police that she was arguing with her boyfriend in her apartment between Diamond and Jewel streets at 7 am, trying to get him to go to rehab, when he put his hands around her neck and squeezed. The nasty boyfriend then punched her with a closed fist and then picked up a kitchen knife, cops said.
“I’m going to kill you,” he allegedly told her, before fleeing the apartment.
Smoking
An opportunistic thief jumped on the back of delivery truck on Kent Avenue on Aug. 8 and stole $6,000 worth of cigarettes while the driver was not looking.
The driver told police that he parked in front of a drug store between N. Fourth and N. Fifth streets at 10:30 am and went into the store to make a delivery. When he came back to the truck, he saw the thief in there and went to confront him, but before he could, the thief locked him in the back of the truck.
Driving need for parts
A group of car-part thieves have been pulling the catalytic converters out of cars in the neighborhood, police say.
• Crooks stole the converter — which is a very expensive part made with platinum — out of a car parked on Meeker Avenue on Aug. 16.
The victim told police she left her vehicle in front of a warehouse between between Van Dam and Varick streets and went inside. When she came out at 9 am, she saw three men working on the car, who then ran off with the part.
• Police say bandits then stole the part out of three cars parked in a public lot on Freeman Street the next day.
Officers report the converters went missing from the autos in the lot near West Street went missing sometime between 4 and 8 pm.
Shooting for a free gun
Someone stole a gun and other items out of a woman’s car on Lorimer Street on Aug. 17.
The woman told police that she parked her vehicle between Bayard Street and Driggs Avenue while she hung out in McCarren Park. She heard the alarm go off at 2:05 pm and ran to her car to find the window smashed and her Smith and Wesson gun missing, along with a blue purse, black tote bag, gold chain, and diamond earrings. The woman could not tell police the serial number for the gun.
— Danielle Furfaro
