62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Cone head
A savage beat a guy with a traffic cone before slamming the man’s head into a sidewalk on Kings Highway on April 4.
The victim was sitting on a newspaper rack between W. Second and W. Third streets in Gravesend at 6:10 pm when the stranger winged him in the face with the orange cone and then threw the man to the ground, police said. The brute fled, and paramedics took the victim to Lutheran Medical Center.
Candy capers
Two sweet-toothed goons stole garbage bags full of candy from an 86th Street pharmacy on April 4.
The manager discovered candy was missing when she was doing inventory for the store between Bay 10th and Bay 11th streets in Bath Beach, police said. She watched security footage, which showed two burglars wearing hoods walk into the store at 8:15 pm, fill garbage bags with treats and beat a hasty retreat, a police report states.
Nimble nicking
A middle-aged woman picked a 73-year-old disabled man’s pockets while she held a door for him in an 18th Avenue bank on March 25.
The victim, who uses a walker and oxygen tank, was leaving the bank between 64th and 65th streets in Bensonhurst at 3:10 pm when a woman offered to hold the door, police said. The guy went to a pharmacy up the block, where he realized his wallet was missing from his jacket, officials said.
The victim returned the bank, and the woman was gone, but the manager told the him that he wasn’t the first person to complain about slight-of-hand thievery that day, a police report states.
Price of love
A Bay Parkway man’s internet lover extorted $125,000 over the course of a year.
The victim told police on March 31 that he met a woman online a year before and entered an “intimate relationship” with her, police said. But the woman started threatening her cyber lover via Facebook and text message, saying she would send hired goons to hurt the man’s family unless he sent her cash, a police report states.
Pinch my ride
A rushed robber car-jacked a guy on the corner of 73rd Street and 19th Avenue in Bensonhurst Avenue on April 3.
The victim was stopped at a red light at 3:58 am when the thief opened his driver-side door, pulled him out, hopped in, and sped off, police said. The driver had some scratches, a police report states.
— Max Jaeger
