61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Social media scrap
Cops say a man beat up a 17-year-old woman he had met on a social media website when the two met up on Jerome Avenue on Aug. 27.
The pair, who had met up once before since hooking up on Facebook, scheduled a get-together near E. 22nd Street for 2:40 pm, police said. But the encounter turned violent when the man threw the victim’s glasses, breaking them, and punched the victim in the face with a closed fist, a police report stated. The man also snatched the woman’s cellphone out of her hand and then left, officials reported.
You snooze, you lose
An unidentified thief snuck into an E. Seventh Street home on Aug. 28 and snuck out with three cellphones, all while the owners laid asleep.
The victims told police they were sleeping upstairs when someone entered the home near Crawford Avenue through a rear window at 6 pm. The crook’s haul included two iPhones and one LG phone, said cops.
Bike brigand
A burglar stole a pricey bicycle on Aug. 26 from a Coyle Street garage that had been left open as the owner brought groceries inside.
The owner told police she had left the garage door of her home near Avenue U open for several hours while she brought purchases inside. She discovered at 11 am that her black Batavus bike had been stolen from the garage.
Rung-based ransacking
An uninvited intruder used a ladder to enter an E. Third Street apartment on Aug. 29, ransacking the bedroom but not stealing any property.
The victim told authorities that someone used a ladder to enter the bedroom of his apartment near Avenue U through a rear window at 10:45 am. The unwelcome guest ransacked the bedroom, took nothing, and left through the same rear window, according to a police report.
— Eric Faynberg
