62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Cop or not?
Actual police arrested a huckster who dressed in a cop uniform and tried to extort $8,000 from two different people at their homes on Ovington Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway on May 15 and May 16.
The fake fuzz tried a house near the corner of Ovington and 14th avenues first around 7 am on May 15. The victim told police the faux law-enforcer was in a full New York City Police Department uniform and demanded $8,000. She told him she did not have the money, and he threatened to arrest her, police said. He gave her an hour to pay up and left — then she got a phone call from someone telling her to play ball, but the “cop” never came back, law enforcement sources said.
It was the same story for a woman living on Bay Ridge Parkway and 19th Avenue — the guy showed up a little after 10 am on May 16 and demanded the same amount. She got the same phone call and he gave her the same time frame to come up with the dough, police said.
Repeat offenders
Two twerps made two trips into a Bay Parkway store to snatch toys and baby gear on May 10.The pair waltzed into the shop near Shore Parkway around 11:40 am, stuffed a cart with $1,500 worth of toys, and walked out, police said. Then they went back in almost immediately and filled up another cart and made it out again, police said.
Driveway bandits
Thieves stole a woman’s car from her Shore Parkway driveway overnight on May 10.
She parked her ride in her driveway between 25th Avenue and Bay 40th Street around 11 pm and woke up around 7 am to find her driveway empty, according to a police report. Officials said there was no broken glass in the driveway.
Truck take
Tool thieves broke into a guy’s truck parked at a school on Stillwell Avenue on May 13, police said.
The guy parked it there between Avenue S and 82nd Street around 8 pm and returned the next day to find someone had broken in through a rear window. Looters grabbed roughly $3,500 worth of tools and equipment, according to a police report.
— Dennis Lynch
