84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Disorder in the court
A quiet crook swiped money from woman who was taking a nap at a courthouse while waiting for jury duty to begin on April 15, according to a report.
The victim placed her pocketbook on her lap and took a nap at 11 am at a courthouse on Adams Street between Johnson and Joralemon streets, and when she awoke an hour later, she found the light-fingered lawbreaker had lifted $240 from the purse without waking the woman, police said.
Phone booked
Cops arrested a group of teens on Nevins Street after another group of youngsters accused them of stealing cell phones on April 17, according to a report.
Police corralled a large group of young people at the corner of Flatbush Avenue after a fight allegedly broke out amongst some of the teens around 6 pm, a report said. As authorities rounded the kids up, three other teens told the cops that some of the members of the large group had recently jumped them and run off with three cell phones, police said.
Cops collared two teenage girls and two teenage boys on theft charges, according to a report.
Blade runners
A pair of barbarians attacked a man on Nevins Street on April 18, slashing him and robbing him for cash and jewelry, according to police.
The victim was at State Street shortly before 9 pm when one of the belligerents grabbed him from behind and put him into a chokehold while the other galoot slashed his face with an unidentified sharp object, snatched the man’s chain from his chest, and fished a cell phone and $250 in cash out of his pockets, police said.
The ruffians took off with a total of $1,030 in loot, according to a report.
Cash and carry
An burglar snatched oodles of money from a cash machine on Furman Street on April 17, cops said.
The thief forced their way through a window of a building between Joralemon Street and Atlantic Avenue at about 8:05 am, broke into the machine housed inside, and ran off with $12,000 in cash, according to a report.
The facility had no functioning cameras to record the incident, police said.
Unfair odds
A crew of anti-social brutes beat and robbed a man on Fulton Street after a verbal spat on April 18, cops said.
The victim got into an argument with three unknown men and three unknown women around 9:48 pm at the corner of Albee Square, when suddenly the dispute escalated, cops said. The six ne’er-do-wells knocked their victim to the ground and began punching and kicking him in the back, head, and face, before snatching a $700 iPhone 6, a pair of Beats headphones valued at $800, a Michael Kors watch worth $350, and a ring worth $700, according to a report.
After lifting the $2,550 in goods from their victim, the group scattered in all directions, stymieing officers’ attempts by to find the robbers, according to a report.
— Noah Hurowitz
