Brute force
Cops in Coney Island are hunting for three thugs who dragged a man into an alley and beat him during a brutal mugging last week.
Officials said that the 30-year-old victim was walking along Brighton 4th Street between Oceanview Avenue and Brighton Beach Avenue at 5:20 a.m. on October 15 when the three suspects, described only as black males, approached him.
The suspects punched their victim in the face and chased him down the block before grabbing hold of him.
They then dragged their victim down a vacant alley, where they continued to beat him before running off with his cell phone.
The victim was left in the alley, bruised and bloodied, officials said.
Yet while the suspects showed a high degree of brutality, they showed a poor amount of smarts – all three were snapped up by a surveillance camera as they escaped the scene.
Police are asking anyone with information regarding these three suspects to come forward.
Calls can be made to the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Shot in the shoulder
A Coney Island man was rushed to the hospital last week after he was shot in the shoulder while running away from a trigger-happy gunman, police alleged.
Officials said that the victim and a friend were on West 31st Street near Mermaid Avenue at 1:40 a.m. on October 18 when suspected gunman Daryl Brown allegedly pulled a gun and fired a shot into the air.
As soon as the shot went off, the victims bolted. As they ran off, Brown allegedly fired several other shots, one of which hit the victim.
Cops caught up with Brown over the weekend, charging him with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
Brown’s motives were unclear as this paper went to press, officials said.
Rambonehead
An armed to the teeth 20-year-old Astor Court resident was unloading his arsenal inside a prison cell following a stabbing in Sheepshead Bay, police alleged.
Police charged that Frank Giordano chased an unidentified man past the corner of Avenue X and Knapp Street with an expandable baton in his hand at 8:45 p.m. on October 18 when a 35-year-old pedestrian intervened on the victim’s behalf.
That’s when Giordano pulled a butterfly knife and jammed it into the victim’s side, puncturing his intestine, officials alleged.
When cops from the 61st Precinct ultimately took him into custody, he allegedly had the knife, the expandable baton, three throwing knives and a pair of handcuffs, police said.
Phone snatch grab
Two brothers were arrested last week after they allegedly snagged an iPhone from a Gravesend straphanger.
The victim, 20, told police that he was on the N train heading toward the West 7th Street station at 86th Street when 17-year-old Mitchell McKenzie and 19-year Joseph McKenzie allegedly snatched the phone from his hand.
The victim had reportedly chased them out of the train and into the station, when they allegedly turned around and shoved the victim down a flight of stairs.
The victim hurt his elbow, but was otherwise unharmed, officials said.
Responding officers caught up with the McKenzie brothers following a short pursuit, charging both of them with robbery.
Busted at the beach
Four alleged thieves were arrested in Manhattan Beach last week after they robbed a teen of his cash and cell phone.
Officials said that 19-year-old Michael Perry, 19-year-old Damien Smart, 20-year-old Cornell Velez and 19-year-old Jose Hurtado, all Flatbush residents, were taken into custody shortly after the 3:15 p.m. theft on October 15.
Their victim told police that he was on Oriental Boulevard near Norfolk Street on his way to school when the quartet exited a nearby car.
One of the suspects reportedly pulled a gun and ordered the victim to fork over his phone, police said.
The thieves then went through the victim’s pockets, taking $8 in cash, police alleged.
Although the suspects fled in different directions, the four suspects were back in the car they came to Manhattan Beach when cops pulled over the vehicle following a search for the area.
The October 15 mugging was one of two robberies to take place in Manhattan Beach last week, officials said.
A day earlier, a 17-year-old girl was robbed of her cell phone as she walked past the corner of Oxford Street and Shore Boulevard at 2 p.m.
The thief, described as a 24-year-old black male, was last seen running down Shore Parkway and was still at large as this paper went to press.
