Buttered up
A butter-knife-wielding crook slashed a 42-year-old in a shocking May 30 attack.
The perp attacked the victim on Metropolitan Avenue at around 12:15 am, cutting him across the left arm with the ubiquitous and utilitarian utensil.
The assault left the victim with a serious gash, and when officers arrived on the block between Kent and Wythe avenues to lock up the 40-year-old suspect, the perp wildly flailed his arms in an attempt to avoid being cuffed.
Once the suspect was in custody, he “intentionally and recklessly bashed the right side of his head into the rear window [of the squad car] causing it to break,” police reports indicated.
Boxcut baddie
A vicious mugger armed with a boxcutter stole $1,500 from a 50-year-old on Skillman Avenue on May 29.
The crook grabbed the victim from behind at around 4:20 am and started choking and punching him in the face.
During the scuffle, the thief also grabbed the victim’s cash, credit card, phone book and green card from his back pocket.
A neighbor heard the commotion and tried to fight off the perp — but the crook pulled out a boxcutter and fled from the block between Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street.
Bottle service
Cops locked up a vicious brute suspected of attacking a Greenpoint woman with a beer bottle in a horrifying Woodpoint Road mugging on May 31.
The crook trailed the victim before striking her with the bottle the corner of Skillman Avenue at around 9:40 pm.
The blow left the victim with a laceration to the head, as well as “swelling and pain,” according to the police report.
The perp then shattered the bottle and attempted to stab the victim, but witnesses scared the crook away.
The thug ran one block, but witnesses detained him at the corner of Humboldt and Conselyea streets until police locked up a suspect.
The very same block was the scene of an equally horrific crime on May 25, when a thug threatened to shoot a 23-year-old if he didn’t hand over his iPhone.
After stalking the victim for blocks, the perp grabbed the victim’s arm at around 11:30 am on Woodpoint Road near the corner of Skillman Avenue and said, “Let me get your phone.” He then simulated having a gun and said, “Don’t make me shoot you.”
The victim handed over the fancy phone and the mugger escaped.
Bottle bash
Cops nabbed a pugilist suspected of slashing a Greenpointer with a broken beer bottle in a May 30 brawl.
The perp allegedly started a fight with the victim at around 1:50 am in McCarren Park, near the corner of Manhattan and Driggs avenues.
After missing with a punch, the assailant grabbed the shattered bottle and cut the victim across the arm, cops said.
Police later locked up a 24-year-old suspect.
Midnight madness
A black clad bandit burglarized a Frost Street apartment on May 24 — while the 87-year-old resident was home
The thug raided the house, which is between Humboldt Street and Woodpoint Road, at around 4 am, waking the horrified victim while he searched her woman’s pocketbook and closet for valuables.
Cops said the crook — who escaped with $90 — probably got into the apartment through the unlocked front door.
Copper caper
Police locked up a thief suspected of heisting plumping pipes from a N. Henry Street apartment on May 26.
Witnesses spotted the crook stripping pipes from the basement of the residence, which is between Herbert and Richardson streets, at around 9:30 am.
The crook fled from the apartment with the costly metal piping, but cops canvassed the neighborhood and cuffed a suspect.
Porsche purloined
For thieves, there is no substitute.
Car-taking fiends jacked a Porsche Cayenne that had been parked on Wythe Avenue overnight on May 29, taking the 2004 luxury SUV that had been parked at midnight near N. Fifth Street.
When the owner returned at 9 am, all he found was a pile of shattered glass.
Cops said the crooks might have used a key that was under the passenger seat.
