68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Cash grab
Two car thieves threatened a guy to get his ride — and the cash inside — just after he parked it on Third Avenue on July 3, police said.
The guy parked his vehicle near 81st Street around 9:25 pm and was walking away from his car when the two toughs approached him from behind and stuck what they claimed was a gun to his back.
“Don’t look back or I’ll put one in you,” one of the villains said, according to a police report. “I just want your car.”
The guy handed over the keys and the two drove off, but police found the car abandoned only a couple blocks away on Third Avenue. The thieves did not leave empty-handed though — the $60,000 the victim had stashed in the car was missing from the ditched vehicle, police said.
Short a bike and cash
Some good-for-nothing beat up a guy and stole his bike on Eighth Avenue outside Leif Ericson Park on July 2, according to a police report.
The guy was hanging at the green space between 66th and 67th streets at 7 pm when the scoundrel came up and punched him five times in the face. The miscreant then grabbed $100 from the victim’s pocket and took his bike to make his getaway, according to police.
Outta sight
A scoundrel nabbed a woman’s purse from a bench on Fifth Avenue in the early morning hours of July 1, according to police.
She put the purse down on the bench near 85th Street around 3:30 am, police said. She “turned her back for five minutes,” and it was gone — along with her passport and debit card in it — when she turned back, she told police.
Stay out of Jersey
A housebreaker made off with cash and jewelry from a man’s 67th Street apartment while he was away in New Jersey for business from June 28 to July 2, police said.
The guy locked his bedroom at the apartment between Eighth and Ninth Avenue at 9 am on June 28 and left. He returned around 1 am on July 2 to find it unlocked and open, but couldn’t find any signs of forced entry, according to a police report.
What he did discover was that $12,000 and his Tiffany diamond ring were missing.
— Dennis Lynch