61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
A familiar face
Some guy tried unsuccessfully to rob a man two nights in a row on Avenue U on Dec. 10 and 11, according to a police report.
The victim told police that on the first night, the brute approached him at E. 18th Street around 10:30 pm, threatened him, and said, “if I go through your pockets will I find money?” The would-be victim fled towards Bedford Avenue with the mugger in hot pursuit, but lost him at Ocean Parkway.
He saw the lout again the next day around 4:30 pm near Bragg Street. He asked to borrow his cellphone and followed him down Bragg Street, where the would-be victim lost him again, police reported.
Armed robbery
A masked marauder held up a store on the Oriental Boulevard for cash on Dec. 19, police said.
The guy walked into the store at Oxford Street around 7:30 am brandishing a black handgun and said to the employee behind the register, “This is it, give me all the money b—- or I’ll shoot you,” cops say. The employee complied, handed over $320, and the masked man fled, police said.
The hungry bandit
A burglar made a pit stop at a man’s refrigerator during an overnight burglary of his Homecrest Avenue apartment on Dec. 15.
The victim left his apartment near Avenue U around 8 pm and came home around noon the next day to find someone had broke a window and ransacked his place the night before. The burglar made away with some tech gadgets and “assorted meats,” according to police.
What a tool
Someone broke open a lock box and swiped valuable tools at a construction site on E. Fifth Street sometime over the weekend of Dec. 11, according to a police report.
The rightful owner of the tools locked them up for the weekend at the site near the corner of Avenue V and came back the morning of Dec. 14 to find someone had cut a hole into the box and took the $3,600 worth of tools.
Police found footprints near a low wall at the back of the construction site and believe the freebooter jumped it to get in and out.
Cat nabbed
Police arrested a man who they say tried to break into the basement of a restaurant on E. 15th Street in the early morning hours of Dec. 15.
Officers responded to a neighbor who called around 5 am and said she heard the sound of broken glass and saw a man break in to the building near the corner of Avenue U through a basement entry.
She said she heard someone heading up to the roof, where police later found the alleged burglar hiding out on an adjoining roof, officials reported.
— Dennis Lynch
