61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Cash and smokes
Three gun-wielding thugs robbed an Ocean Avenue store on Oct. 5, taking cash and cigarettes.
The victim told police he was working the counter of the business between Avenues W and X at 3 am when the goons waltzed in and one of them drew a pistol. The victim was then ushered to the bathroom at gunpoint, where he stayed while the crooks ransacked the register and grabbed seven cartons of cigarettes, $800, and the victim’s iPhone.
Subway rats
Two thugs punched a man and stole his phone at an Avenue U subway station along the Q line on Oct. 5.
The victim told police he was waiting on the Manhattan-bound platform of the station near E. 16th Street at 5:15 am when two men approached him and asked to “check” his phone. When he refused, one of the men punched him in the face, which was enough to persuade the victim to hand over his property.
iPad ransacked
A burglar nabbed a man’s iPad from his Ocean Parkway apartment on Oct. 5.
The victim told police he had left his unlocked apartment between Avenues R and S at 5:30 pm to go do laundry. When he returned, he discovered that a thief had grabbed his iPad from his dresser.
Bike bandit
Cops arrested a 25-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy for allegedly robbing an 11-year-old of his bike on E. 13th Street on Oct. 5.
The victim told police that he was near Avenue V at 6:36 pm when the suspects complimented his bike and then tried to grab it. The older man allegedly blocked the victim’s path, while the younger suspect jumped on the bike and ran for the hills, cops said.
Beat down
A thief beat and robbed a man on Avenue V on Oct. 4 — taking $200.
The victim told police that he was near E. 19th Street at 3:05 pm when the suspect asked him for the time. The victim said he was about to reply when he was rudely interrupted by a knuckle sandwich, which sent him falling to the pavement.
The crook then ransacked the victim’s pockets, taking $200, cops said.
Civic snatched
A crook drove off with a man’s Honda Civic parked along Avenue Z on Oct. 3.
The victim told police that he left his car between E. 28th and E. 29th streets at 7 pm, and returned later to find an empty spot where his car had been.
Cheap rooms available
A vandal let himself into a man’s Jerome Avenue apartment on Oct. 5 — making a mess, but taking nothing.
The victim told police that he left his apartment between Ocean Avenue and E. 21st Street at 12:30 pm, returning just before midnight to find a first-floor window ajar, and that his apartment had been ransacked.
Whether the thief couldn’t find what he was after, or he was just looking for a good time at somebody else’s expense is anybody’s guess.
— Colin Mixson