61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Romaine calm
A shotgun-toting scalawag robbed a Kings Highway convenience store on Nov. 24 under the guise of purchasing produce, police said.
The lying lout walked into the store near the corner of E. 19th Street just after midnight and asked an employee to direct him to the lettuce, cops said. He went to the counter with the lettuce in hand to pay, but when the employee opened the register, the villain pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and told the employee to hand over the other kind of green, according to the police report.
He grabbed $250 from the register and fled on E. 19th Street toward Avenue P, police said.
Not thankful
A vile villain threatened a man for his cash and brand-new car on Thanksgiving morning on Avenue X.
The victim was double parked near E. 22nd street around 4:30 am when the brute came up to the driver’s side window, pulled out a handgun, and told the driver, “Get out of the car or I will shoot you,” according to police.
The driver complied and the robber further ran the man’s pockets for $300 and his wallet, police said. Then he hoped in his victim’s 2015 sedan and sped down towards Avenue Y.
Failed break-in
Two would-be burglars unsuccessfully tried to break into a business on Avenue R on the morning of Nov. 28.
The two were at the business near Nostrand Avenue at 6 am wearing hoodies, masks, and gloves as they tried to pry open a kitchen door with a crowbar, police said. They managed to damage the door, but didn’t get in.
Then they used a table to reach an elevated window, but they were not able to break open the locks on the windows, so they gave up and fled towards Haring Street, according to officials.
X marks the spot
A burglar broke into an Avenue X business through an old vent on Nov. 28 and got away with over $50,000 worth of goods.
After crawling in through the vent, he made his way into a basement office room at the business near the corner of W. First Street around 5 am, where he grabbed $3,000 cash, two Rolex watches worth $42,000, an iPad, and a nine-millimeter handgun before getting away, according to police.
— Dennis Lynch
