61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Gunning for phones
A gun-wielding robber looted cash and smartphones from a store on Kings Highway on Aug. 7.
The raider threatened a store worker with a black hand gun and stole cash, an Apple iPhone 8, two Apple iPhone X, and a Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone from the store near E. 19th Street at 5:22 pm, cops reported.
The bandit then took off in a Dodge Charger towards the Kings Highway Q-train stop and made a right on E. 19th Street, according to police.
Group mugging
Police arrested two out of three people who they say punched and robbed a woman on Haring Street on Aug. 9.
The woman was near Avenue U at 3:05 pm with three acquaintances when one allegedly punched her in the face, causing a laceration on her nose, and then the second searched her handbag and snatched her iPhone 8 Plus and gave it to the third person, according to police.
The first two people have been apprehended by police but the third man who police say is between 15 and 16 years old fled in an unknown direction with the victim’s phone, cops said.
— Kevin Duggan
