62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Inquisition
Two holier-than-thou hotheads knifed a guy and his friend on 63rd Street on May 31 because they didn’t like his rosary beads.
The pious victim and his buddy were between 24th Avenue and Dahill Road in Gravesend at 5:15 am when two guys in their mid-20s — one wearing a Yankees jersey — picked a fight with the guy over his Catholic prayer beads, police said.
The argument escalated when one of the heathens pulled a knife, stabbing the rosary owner in the head, arm, and chest, and knifing his friend in the ear, a police report states. Both victims went to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment, officials said.
Slugger cuffed
Cops arrested a 17-year-old punk who they said beat an Avenue S shopkeeper with his own baseball bat on May 27 — before turning on an elderly man.
The kid came into the store between W. Ninth and W. 10th streets in Gravesend looking for rolling papers at 10:15 pm, but he quickly became agitated and threw a box of candy at the clerk, police said.
The shopkeeper threatened the youth with a baseball bat, but the kid allegedly took it and smacked the man in the head, according to a police report. Then, police charge, the suspect also bashed an 71-year-old man who was using the cash machine.
Batter familias
A wannabe Robin Hood mugged a guy on 18th Avenue on May 29, but apologized saying he needed the dough to feed his family.
The victim told cops he was near 76th Street in Bensonhurst at 11 am when the pugilistic provider approached him said “I need money for my family” — then socked the guy in the gut and took a necklace and wallet containing $600, police said.
He fled on 76th Street toward 17th Avenue, officials said.
Bogie bandit
A chain-smoking chump stole 34 cartons of cigarettes from a Stillwell Avenue store on May 31.
The guy smashed a window in the shop between 80th and 81st streets in Gravesend at 1:20 am and made off with the ill-gotten smoke, police said.
Gunpoint robbery
Two rogues with a revolver robbed a guy on Highlawn Avenue on May 27.
The pair sandwiched their victim between Seventh and Eight avenues in Gravesend at 12:30 am, police said. One guy pointed a long-barreled revolver at the victim’s head while the other took $20, credit cards, and a public benefit card from the guy’s pocket, officials said.
The gunman told the victim “Stay here or I will kill you,” and then fled on W. Eighth Street toward Avenue S, a police report states.
Gr-easy money
A thief took $2,000 from a meat delivery truck on 86th Street on May 27.
The delivery man left the truck between 25th Avenue and Bay 40th Street in Bensonhurst to drop off some vittles at 12:30 pm, and when he came back, he found that someone had busted open the driver’s-side door and taken the cash, police said.
— Max Jaeger
