76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Predatory Poindexter
A no-goodnik armed with a laser pointer stuck up two women as they walked on Verona Street on June 16, cops said.
The women said they were at the corner of Dwight Street at 2:10 am when the lowlife threatened to shoot them if they didn’t hand over their purses. The women, who say they didn’t see a gun, decided not to take any chances, according to a report.
The robber made off with several credit cards, both women’s driver’s licenses, and more than $100 in cash, law enforcement officials said.
Joy ride over
Cops collared a 20-year-old who they say who they say was recklessly riding a stolen CitiBike on a Hicks Street sidewalk on June 15.
The officers spotted the suspect between Mill Street and Centre Mall at 4:46 pm, they said. It turned out the cruiser had been missing since June 8, when someone checked it out of a dock in Manhattan, a report states.
The cops who nabbed the young man say they also found a small amount of marijuana on him.
Disappearing act
An anti-social velo-phile swiped a woman’s bike parked on Hoyt Street sometime between June 13 and 15, according to the authorities.
The 29-year-old woman reported that she left her blue-and-yellow Shogun bicycle between Baltic and Wyckoff Streets at 10 pm on June 13, but when she returned at 1:40 pm on June 15, it had vanished.
The thief had cut the woman’s U-lock and sped off on her ride, police stated.
Tools beware
A thief — or thieves — hit a maintenance room in a Housing Authority building on Columbia Street sometime overnight on June 11, law enforcement officials said.
The miscreant entered the storage room in the building between Centre Mall and Bush Street without force sometime between 5 pm on June 11 and 7 am the next day and scooted off with a handful of utility knives, officials stated.
Cops say the misdeed is similar to a tool theft from a Red Hook West basement between June 6 and 9, but they stopped short of linking the two crimes.
— Noah Hurowitz
