Kicked while down
Three thugs punched and knocked down a 28-year-old Grand Street resident, and then, as the coup de grace, kicked him again while he was down on Dec. 30.
The attack happened at the corner of Lafayette and Clermont avenues at 10:20 pm, and as far as bounty is concerned, the three hoodlums had good aim. Inside the man’s backpack, itself worth about $50, the victim had been carrying a $400 device called a Korg KAOSS Pad III, a Samsung MP3 player, $50 worth of clothes, and a Blackberry cellphone.
Identify theft
What a way to end the year. On New Year’s Eve, a 47-year-old Greene Avenue resident discovered that someone had been trying to open accounts in her name.
The woman was tipped off to the crime when she received bizarre statements from TransUnion and Experian, which provide consumer credit reports, indicating strange activity during the month of December.
Cops are investigating.
Booted
Cops started the New Year by collaring a 31-year-old woman for unlawful use of a boot on Jan. 1.
A crazed assailant slammed her 34-year-old female victim over the forehead with a boot at 9:20 pm. The attack took place at the victim’s home, on Tillary Street near Prince Street.
Bum rap
A young man coming out of the Washington Avenue club Reign early on Dec. 9 was struck in the posterior by a bullet from an unknown gun.
The 22-year-old had finished a night of partying at the club, near Flushing Avenue, and was walking to his car around 4 am.
He had walked less than a block when he heard a gunshot and froze, not sure where the shot had come from. He discovered a few seconds later that regardless of where the shot had come from, it had ended up lodged in his left buttock.
He called friends, who drove him to Interfaith Hospital. There is no word on who fired the shot, or even if the shot was aimed at him.
This was the latest in a series of problems at the club, which the State Liquor Authority has cited an unusual number of times for infractions like allowing fights to break out, serving alcohol to a visibly intoxicated man and excessive noise.
A call to the nightclub, which has been the source of some frustration for neighbors, was not returned.
