62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Shoelace strangler
A brute viciously attacked a man and attempted to strangle him with a shoelace on 20th Lane on Sept. 3, police said.
The victim told police he was walking toward his car near Shore Parkway at 1:55 am when a man came up behind him and tried to strangle him with some sort of string. Police say the ruffian then repeatedly punched the man in the face causing swelling, redness, and bleeding to his face and mouth.
The victim was taken to Lutheran Medical Center and a shoelace was found at the scene, said police.
Big heist
Thieves ransacked a woman’s bedroom at her 21st Avenue home on Sept. 4, according to authorities.
The victim told police that while she was at work her boyfriend entered her apartment near 74th Street at 2:25 am to spend the night. When he went into the bedroom he noticed it was in a state of disarray, cops said. A gray safe containing $69,940 and a MacBook Pro was gone, a police report stated. There was no sign of forced entry on the front door or windows of the apartment.
The woman said that at 2:10 am her dog walker visited the apartment to walk her pooch. The dog walker has keys to the apartment, police said.
Home invader
Police arrested a man who they say tried to break into a W. First Street home on Sept. 5 and attacked the tenant when he approached.
The man attempted to break into the 58-year-old man’s home near Avenue P at 12:40 pm by opening a window and trying to open the building’s side door, police said.
When the alleged intruder was approached by the victim, he struck the man in the face, causing him to bleed, police said.
Two-on-one
Two goons punched and beat a man with a baseball bat on Bay Seventh Street on Sept. 1, police said.
The victim told police he was near near 86th Street at 5:50 pm when he got into a verbal dispute over drugs that got violent. The violent duo punched the victim and hit him with the baseball bat, causing bleeding to his head, neck, back, body, and hands.
— Caroline Spivack
