68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Totes from underground
A subterranean scoundrel broke into a Third Avenue deli’s basement and stole $20,000 and some generator motors between April 8 and April 13.
The burgled bodega sits between 74th Street and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge, police said.
Tools vanish
Some opportunistic operatives took thousands of dollars in tools from two vans parked on Shore Road on April 16.
The vans’ drivers left their rides between 74th Street and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge at 12:45 pm, but when they returned at 2:30 pm, $2,425 in power tools was missing, police said.
No choice
A gun-toting goon said he had no choice when he stole $300 and an iPhone from a Fifth Avenue store clerk on April 19.
The trigger man burst into the store between 72nd and 73rd streets in Bay Ridge at 8:10 am waving a handgun and saying “I have to do this. Open the blue box, and give me the money,” according to a police report.
The employee forked over the cash and phone, and the robber fled, police said.
Stooges stopped
Police cuffed a trio of toughs who allegedly impersonated cops and stole $140 from a guy on the corner of 72nd Street and 11th Avenue in Dyker Heights on April 19.
The three stooges shook down their mark at 3:30 am, and then threatened him with a baseball bat before fleeing in a 2015 Honda Civic, police said.
But the goons got into a car accident an hour later, and police pinched them for the robbery, a police report states.
— Max Jaeger