62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Bad hit
Three brutes violently beat a guy with a billiard cue and robbed him outside of his 18th Avenue home on May 1, according to a police report.
The victim was walking to his car from his house near 70th Street around 1:30 pm when who he said was a stranger walked up to him and waylaid him with the wooden stick. Then two guys came up from behind him and starting beating him, too.
Once the victim was on the ground, one ruffian reached into his pocket, grabbed $2,450 in cash he had on him, and they fled.
Bicycle bandits
Cops cuffed a pair of teenagers who they say robbed a woman of her purse on 14th Avenue on April 26.
The woman was near Benson Avenue around 4 pm when the pair rode up from behind her — one pedaling a bike and the other riding on the back of it. The latter hopped off and grabbed her pocketbook off her arm, but the woman tried to fight him off and hurt her arm, according to officials.
The kid hopped back on the back of the bike and they rode off with her bag, the $200 in it, and her umbrella, police said. But she was not left out in the rain for long — officers later caught up with them.
Avenue U ambush
Two bruisers beat and robbed a guy walking down W. Sixth Street on May 1, police said.
The guy was leaving a bar near Avenue U just before 11 pm when the lurking louts ambushed him from behind, leaving him bruised and cut all over. Once they subdued him they grabbed $500 in cash from him and fled.
Causing distress
Three hucksters masquerading as spiritual healers swindled a woman they met on 86th Street on April 27 out of $130,000, police said.
The woman told police she met the conwomen outside a store between 19th Avenue and Bay 22nd Street around 3 pm. They told her they would rid her family of all distress if she gave them all her money and prayed with them. So she went to her home on Bay 22nd Street and gathered the massive amount of cash and took it back to them.
They handed her a bag and told her not to open it until she got home. When she did get home, all she found was a bunch of groceries.
Driveaway
A carjacker stole a guy’s ride right from his 19th Lane driveway on April 30, police said.
The guy parked his car in his driveway between 19th Avenue and 20th Drive around 7:30 pm and went home. He came out the next morning and it was long gone.
— Dennis Lynch
