62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Adding injury to insult
A pair of heartless brutes stabbed a man on Cropsey Avenue on March 26 after demanding and receiving his cellphone, according to a police report.
The victim was near Bay 29th Street around 1:30 am when the duo each flashed blades and demanded his cellphone. The victim handed it over without issue, but then they stabbed him multiple times anyway, according to police.
Teen troubles
A trio of toughs robbed a teen at knifepoint on 70th Street on March 25, according to a police report.
The three approached their target while he was walking home from work near 14th Avenue around 10:15 pm. They each whipped out blades and demanded everything he had, officials reported. They took $60 in cash, some bank cards, and his cellphone, police stated.
Nightmarish burglary
A burglar threatened a woman while robbing her W. Ninth Street home on March 23, police said.
She was in her bedroom at her apartment near Quentin Road just after 11 am when she heard a noise in her living room. She went to investigate and found a guy had forced his way in through the front door and was grabbing her stuff, according to a police report.
He looked at her and said, “get back in your room or I’ll f—— shoot you,” so she did, police said. He got away with some electronics, her cellphone, and some jewelry, police said.
Phone-snatcher cuffed
Police arrested a man who they stole a woman’s phone from her hands in a stairwell at her 63rd Street workplace on March 28.
She was walking down a stairwell at her office between 16th and 17th avenues around 2 pm with her phone in her hand when the guy came up to her. He grabbed the hand she had her cellphone in, twisted it around so she could not move, and snatched took the phone.
Needed another coffee
An opportunistic thief stole a woman’s purse as she dozed off in an 86th Street coffee shop on March 23, police said.
She fell asleep with her head down at the shop near Avenue U around 2 am, according to a police report. The jerk saw his chance and grabbed her bag sitting on the table, then ran out the door. Another customer saw him do it and called police.
— Dennis Lynch
