76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Good timing
A galoot tried to rob a couple at knifepoint on Seabring Street on Jan. 1, but was foiled by a well-timed passerby, cops said.
The pair was between Van Brunt and Richards streets in Red Hook at 10:30 pm when the brute came up from behind, grabbed the woman’s purse and demanded more items from her male pal, menacing him with a blade, according to a report.
Just then a passerby approached, spooking the robber, prompting him to toss the handbag and flee empty-handed, police said.
Off-road
A thief stole a tire from a parked car on President Street on Dec. 26, according to a report.
The victim left her black 2012 Jeep between Columbia and Hicks streets at 12:26 pm, and upon her return at 8 am on Jan. 2, she found a single tire taken, police said.
Trashy
An ill-mannered teen attacked a school safety officer outside a school on Smith Street on Jan. 5, officers said.
The officer was dismissing students from the school between Baltic and Warren streets in Boerum Hill at 3 pm, and amid the end-of-day chaos had to break up several fights, cops said.
As she busted up one fracas, someone tossed a metal garbage can at her, hitting her in the arm and hand, according to a report.
What a tool
Someone stole a 75-year-old man’s toolkit from his W. Ninth Street apartment on Jan. 1, and he blamed his roommate, cops said.
The victim said that sometime between noon and 12:30 pm that day someone swiped an estimated $635 worth of tools, including a pressure gauge and a vacuum pump, from his basement apartment between Hamilton Avenue and Court Street.
He accused his roommate of the heist, but because multiple people have access to the space in which he had stored them, police could not definitively pin the crime on anyone, according to law enforcement officials.
— Noah Hurowitz
