88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
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Cops collared a guy who they say stole a set of photos and some ham from a supermarket on Lafayette Avenue on Feb. 21.
The hungry 37-year-old entered the store between Classon Avenue and St. James Place at 2:10 pm and put a set of photos in his backpack along with a package of Oscar Mayer ham, cops said. Store employees tried to stop the man from leaving and he fought back, scratching the store manager on the neck, according to authorities. Cops arrived minutes later and arrested the suspect.
Booze cruise
A thirsty thief made off with $600 in cash and a bottle of tequila from a Myrtle Avenue restaurant on Feb. 12, cops said.
The owners told police the boozy burglar crept into the restaurant between Ryerson Street and Grand Avenue at 7 am, while it was closed. The prowler entered through the unlocked front door, took the cash from a cabinet under the register, and grabbed the liquor bottle before taking off, according to police.
Sock and awe
A creep wearing a sock on his head robbed a 29-year-old lady of her cellphone in the Whitman Houses on Feb. 19, police said.
The woman told cops she received a phone call at 11:25 am from someone claiming they got her information on the website “Back Page,” presumably meaning the escort site backpage.com. The stranger asked her to meet him in the lobby of an apartment building on Cumberland Walk and she agreed, police reported. She arrived to find the scary scoundrel wearing socks over his head and hands and carrying a hard object also covered by a sock, cops said. The covered-up cretin demanded the phone before taking off, police said.
Back-talk backfires
Cops cuffed a grown man who they say threatened his own mother after taking her phone on Feb. 19 in an apartment on N. Oxford Walk near Park Avenue in the Whitman Houses.
The 22-year-old and his 43-year-old mom got into an argument at 5 pm and the lout grabbed her phone and threatened to hit her, according to a police report. Cops picked up the suspect the next day.
Knife to a verbal fight
Police arrested a 22-year-old woman they say slashed a fellow with a knife on Feb. 20 in an apartment on Cumberland Walk in the Whitman Houses.
The 20-year-old victim said the villain exchanged words with his brother at 1:10 pm, then pulled the blade. The attacker then cut the victim and he to be taken by ambulance to Brooklyn Hospital Center, according to cops.
Helter shelter
Cops collared a 32-year-old woman who they say assaulted a fellow resident in a women’s shelter on Tillary Street between Prince and Navy streets on Feb. 21.
Police said the 52-year-old victim was standing on line in the cafeteria at 6 pm, when the aggressor came over and cut the line. The two got into a tussle and the brute punched her fellow resident in the face and threw her to the floor, cops said. She then grabbed a garbage can and threw it at the victim, hitting her in the head, according to authorities. Authorities arrested the line-cutter and took the victim to Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Phantom chucker
A man told police someone lobbed a beer bottle at him at 12:25 am on Feb. 22, as he walked down Fulton Street.
The 65-year-old told cops he was walking near the corner of Grand Avenue when he felt the bottle strike him on the hand. Cops checked the security camera at a nearby bar, but did not see any one on the tape throwing bottles, they said.
Beer bash
Cops took a drunk man to Kings County Hospital after he reported being attacked on Putnam Avenue on Feb. 22 at 2 am.
The 29-year-old told police he was stumbling along Putnam between Grand Avenue and Downing Street when he was struck from behind with an unknown object. He needed several stitches, according to a police report.
Pare pair pinched
Cops arrested two teens who they say were part of a mob that attacked and slashed two men in a restaurant on Flatbush Avenue Extension on Feb. 22.
One of the victims, a 22-year-old, reported he and his friend were stormed by a large group of teens at 5:59 pm, while in the restaurant between DeKalb Avenue and Fulton Street. Both victims were sliced with an unknown object and required stitches, according to police. One was cut on the neck and taken to Kings County Hospital and the other was gashed on his hand as tried to protect his face, and was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center, police said. Cops arrested the 15-year-old and 16-year-old suspects later that day, according to cops.
Bag snag
A lowlife snagged a 59-year-old woman’s bag as she entered the Clinton-Washington C subway station on Feb. 18 at 4:05 pm, police stated.
The unlucky lady told police she was heading down the stairs from the street when the crook snatched her purse and ran out of the station before she could even get a good look at him. The purse contained $80 in cash, along with a cellphone, credit, and debit cards, per cops.
— Matthew Perlman
