84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Hack attack thwarted
Cops cuffed a man who they say sliced his own hand with a box-cutter on Nov. 24 while trying to rob a cab driver at Livingston Street and Bond Street, the authorities reported.
The 46-year-old cabbie told police he dropped off some passengers at the intersection at 5 pm, and that the suspect entered his car and demanded money.
“Give me all you got,” he said, according to a police report.
The suspect then tried to grab some cash from the hack’s hand, but the driver fought back, the report says.
The crook took out the blade and tried to slash the driver’s hand, but missed and cut himself, per police. Officers picked up the 29-year-old suspect the next day.
Another hack attack
Police arrested three teens for allegedly robbing a cab driver at Water Street and Washington Street on Nov. 26.
The 60-year-old hack told cops he picked up the trio at DeKalb Avenue and Washington Street at 4:03 pm, and drove them to Dumbo. When he was dropping them off, one of the teens grabbed the driver’s backpack, which contained $80 in cash and a cellphone, and all three took off running on Water Street towards Main Street, cops said. Officers arrived and arrested the three 15-year-old suspects, police said.
Parking fee
A quick crook took a man’s bag out of his car while he paid for parking at a Joralemon Street Muni-Meter on Nov. 21, according to police.
The 41-year-old victim said he parked his ride between Clinton and Court streets at 6:15 pm, and left it unlocked while he went to pay the meter. He returned a couple of minutes later to find the bag, which contained a laptop and a camera lens, gone, cops said.
Shopping lift
A thief filched a woman’s wallet from her purse as she entered a Fulton Street department store on Nov. 24, police said.
The 22-year-old victim said she was entering the store, between Gallatin Place and Hoyt Street, at 2:50 pm, when someone bumped into her. She went to the bathroom to check her bag and found that her billfold had been pilfered, cops said.
The wallet contained debit, credit, and gift cards, police said.
Laser larceny
Some eagle-eyed sneaks stole a laser from an office in MetroTech Center overnight on Nov. 18, police said.
A 63-year-old employee in the office, which is on the Myrtle Promenade between Lawrence and Bridge streets, reported that the equipment was secure when he left the building at 7 pm, but when he returned at 7 the next morning it was gone.
The optical laser source cost $2,500, according to a police report.
Bumped off
A man was arrested for trying to break into a Bridge Street storefront on Nov. 27, according to the authorities.
A 53-year-old employee said the suspect tried to enter the store between Willoughby and Fulton streets at 4:30 pm with a so-called “bump key,” a lock-picking tool. He called police and responding officers arrested the 52-year-old suspect, cops said.
Pickpocket picked up
Cops cuffed a man who they say stole a wallet from a woman’s purse while she was taking pictures at the corner of Water and Old Fulton streets on Nov. 27.
The 56-year-old victim said she was taking pictures near the intersection at 7:40 pm when the suspect came over and extracted her wallet, which contained a debit and credit card. Cops arrived on the scene and arrested the 52-year-old suspect minutes later, they said.
Ouch-bound
Someone slapped a subway conductor in the face as he was pulling a train into the DeKalb Avenue station on Nov. 29, police said.
The 31-year-old conductor said he was operating the doors of a Brooklyn-bound Q train that was pulling into the station at 6:25 am, when a galoot standing on the platform walked up to the window and let him have it. Paramedics took the victim to Coney Island Hospital, cops stated.
Computer looter
A fiend stole a man’s computer equipment from the lobby of a Sands Street building on Nov. 28, according to police.
The 34-year-old victim told cops he left two computers, a compact disk player, and some speakers in the lobby of his father’s building between Gold and Navy streets at 5 am while he went upstairs to get his dad.
They came down 15 minutes later and the stuff was nowhere to be found, cops said.
Dumb and desperate
Cops arrested one of two suspects who they say threatened a delivery guy with a gun on Flatbush Avenue Extension at Myrtle Avenue on Nov. 30, cops said.
The 47-year-old delivery man said he was on his way to deliver some food at 8 pm when the two guys stopped him. He said they tried to take his food, showed him a gun, and then took off running empty-handed.
Police arrested the accused shortly after the incident, officers recounted.
— Matthew Perlman
