76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Chase policy
A shoplifting incident turned into a beating on Smith Street on Aug. 22, when a shop proprietor chased a couple of punks down the block for swiping a bottle of soda, cops said.
Upon observing the two young men walk out of the establishment between Baltic and Warren streets without paying for their soda, a manager at the store confronted them, police said. The sugar fiends didn’t take kindly to that, per officers.
One of the wise guys punched the shopkeeper in the face and both sped off on foot, according to a police report.
Broken window
A burglar smashed his way into a President Street apartment on Aug. 30 and made off with the tenant’s bike, the authorities stated.
The victim reported she left her pad between Hicks and Columbia Streets at 1 pm, and when she returned at 3:45 pm, she found a window smashed and her bike, which she valued at $200, taken, cops said.
Fruit of Labor Day
A lowlife swiped a man’s bike from outside his Carroll Street house on Sept. 1, Police Department officials said.
The man locked up his two-wheeler outside his abode between Hoyt and Smith streets on Aug. 28, and when he returned to it at 4 pm on Sept. 1, the bike had vanished, cops said.
The victim valued the mountain bike at $300, according to a police report.
Knife to meet you
An anti-social brute robbed a man at knife-point on Butler Street on Aug. 31, police said.
The man was standing on the sidewalk between Hoyt and Smith streets around 4:45 pm when the blade-wielding galoot threatened him with grievous harm, punched him in the face, and snatched some of his belongings, a police report states.
The thief made off with pants, shoes, cash, and a baseball cap, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz
