Jerk pours sugar in freight trucks’ gas tanks

76th Precinct

Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook

Bad taste

A nogoodnik poured sugar into the gas tanks of a woman’s two freight trucks parked on Columbia Street sometime between Aug. 12 and Aug. 15, police said.

The woman told cops she left the trucks in the parking lot on Aug. 12 at 2 pm and when she returned on Aug. 15 at 8:30 am, found the $10,000 in damages from the sugar in the gas tanks. One of the trucks is a 2003 red domestic freight truck, according to authorities.

Coffee to go

A punk stole a cup of coffee and a carton of cigarettes from a store on Dwight Street on Aug. 15, police said.

The guy entered the store between Wolcott and Dikeman streets and left with the ill-gotten Newports and a cup of Joe at 11:29 am, according to a police report.

Bye, bye bike

A so-called friend stole a guy’s mountain bike from a backyard on Columbia Street on Aug. 14, police said.

The victim told authorities his “pal” borrowed the green-and-white-striped ride on Aug. 13, promising to return it to the backyard between Bush and Lorraine streets later that day. But when the guy went to retrieve on Aug. 14 at 1 am, it was gone, cops said.

Oh baby

A malefactor stole a woman’s bicycle and an attached child’s seat from Clinton Street on Aug. 11, police said.

The 44-year-old left her town two-wheeler and the Bobike seat chained up with a lock between Baltic and Kane streets on Aug. 11 at 5 pm, but when she returned the next day at 2 pm, both were gone.

Black and blue

Police arrested a 23-year-old woman who they say punched another woman in the face on Henry Street on Aug. 14.

The victim told police she was between Mill Street and Centre Mall at 8:20 pm when the suspect allegedly hit her on the left side of her face, causing bruising and swelling to her left eye, according to authorities.