Urination intervention
Two males caught relieving themselves on a Bay Ridge Parkway home were arrested last week when they attacked two residents of the building just moments after they were told to zip up and move on, police alleged.
Police said that the two males, identified as 25-year-old Sam Lopez and 18-year-old Carlos Plata, allegedly attacked their victims with a shovel and a belt during the stream of events at 7:40 p.m. on May 25.
Cops were told that the victims, ages 29 and 23, were inside their home near 16th Avenue when they saw the two men answering nature’s call.
The two were shooed away, but quickly came back armed with a shovel they found nearby, officials alleged.
Cops said that one of the victims was hit with a shovel. The second man was hit with a belt allegedly wielded by one of the two suspects.
Responding officers took the two into custody without incident and charged them with assault.
Manhattan Beach mayhem
Cops are investigating two recent robberies in Manhattan Beach – a neighborhood that is usually considered the quietest part of the 61st Precinct.
Officials said that police were called to Falmouth Street near Hampton Avenue on the night of May 29 after two women were held up at gunpoint right in front of their home.
The women said that they had just returned from Manhattan and had just pulled their car into their driveway at 11:55 a.m. when an unidentified male crept up and pulled a gun on them.
The thief robbed the two of their pocketbooks, cash and jewelry and was last seen fleeing in a red vehicle, officials said.
Cops were called back to Manhattan Beach on Sunday night when a 57-year-old woman was robbed of her handbag as she helped her elderly father into his house on Dover Street.
The woman told police that she was walking her father to the front door at 11:30 p.m. on June 1 when a white male with a bandanna covering his face rolled down the block in a white vehicle.
The thief stopped the car, jumped out, grabbed the woman’s purse, ran back to his car and sped off. Everything happened so fast that the thief never closed the door to his car, cops were told.
Police are asking anyone with information regarding either incident to come forward.
Calls can be made to the 61st Precinct at (718) 627-6611. All calls will be kept confidential.
Slaying still a mystery
Police said that while detectives are actively pursuing the case, no murder charges have been filed against the survivor in the bloody knife fight on 78th Street last week – a slaying that left a would-be good Samaritan dead.
Sources from the 62nd Precinct said that the unidentified 18-year-old who left the corner of 78th Street and 16th Avenue with a stab wound to the stomach on May 23 has been charged for the crime that sparked the entire fight.
Cops said that the 18-year-old was arguing with his girlfriend at the corner at 2:23 p.m. that afternoon when he tried to steal her pocketbook.
That’s when the victim, an unnamed 21-year-old male, intervened, cops said.
When the two men began arguing, the 21-year-old pulled a knife – a move that ultimately led to his death.
Police said that as they fought with the knife, the 21-year-old was stabbed repeatedly. He died from his injuries at Lutheran Medical Center. The 18-year-old, who was also injured, was listed in stable condition after treatment.
While the 18-year-old was charged with the robbery, he hasn’t been charged in the Samaritan’s death, since it appears that he killed the man in self-defense.
The names of the two men in the fight, which took place just a short distance from New Utrecht High School, were not released, since future charges could be filed.
Robbed of iPod
A 22-year-old man was punched in the face and robbed of his iPod and cash as he walked through Bensonhurst, cops from the 62nd Precinct said this week.
The victim said that he was nearing the corner of 20th Avenue and 64th Street at 11:15 p.m. on May 27 when an unidentified white male snuck up on him from behind.
After punching him, the thief ran off with his property, police said. No serious injuries were reported.
Bludgeoned with bottle
Police are looking for the thug who hit another man over the head with a glass bottle as he robbed him of his wallet on Avenue O near Bay Parkway, officials said.
The suspect, described only as a white male, approached his victim as he made his way home at 11:45 p.m. on May 27, and demanded that he fork over his money, officials were told.
When the victim refused, the thief hit him over the head with the bottle and ran off with his wallet.
Cops are investigating the possibility that this incident and the one above it could be related, since they occurred so close to one another.
Anyone with information regarding either of these crimes is urged to contact the 62nd Precinct at (718) 236-2611. All calls will be kept confidential.
