76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Stranger danger
A punk clocked a teen on Centre Mall on June 4, cops said.
The 16-year-old victim was walking into a building between Columbia and Hicks Streets at 6:30 pm when the wannabe tough socked her, officers stated.
First responders brought the victim, sporting a swollen left eye, to Lutheran Medical Center for treatment. Police were unable to locate the slugger, who the victim said was a stranger.
What a tool
A prowler stole more than $1,500 worth of tools from the basement of a building in the Red Hook West development on Bush Street sometime between June 6 and 9, according to the authorities.
The loot had been stored in two rooms in the basement of the building near Dwight Street and the bandit was able to breeze in through an unlocked portal, police said.
Smash and snag
A thief shattered the window of a car parked on Smith Street and took the owner’s navigation system, cash, credit cards, and identification sometime overnight on June 8, law enforcement officials said.
The victim told cops she parked her car between Atlantic Avenue and Pacific Street at 7 pm on June 8 and, when she returned at 8:05 the next morning, the driver’s-side window was smashed.
The fiend disappeared with a $300 navigation system, $100 in cash, three credit cards, and a New York state driver’s license, according to a report.
Leave the keys at home
Cops busted a drunk driver who they say blew a stop sign on Second Place in the early morning of June 8.
An officer reported he was on Second Place at 12:21 am when the motorist passed the placard without pausing and turned onto Henry Street. Officers followed the car until it finally stopped on Hamilton Avenue on the corner of Hicks Street, they said.
The suspect smelled of booze, slurred his speech, and had glassy, bloodshot eyes, according to a police report. The driver failed a Breathalyzer test and the law charged him with driving while intoxicated, operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content exceeding .08, reckless driving, running a red light, running a stop sign, and failing to stop for an emergency vehicle.
Low fashion
Cops cuffed a trio who they say stole more than $500 worth of merchandise from a purveyor of youth fashion on Smith Street on June 5.
Employees of the store between Douglass and Butler Streets notified police at 2 pm, when two of the fashionistas allegedly left the store with ill-gotten goods, got into a white 2014 Bayerische Motoren Werke car, and took off.
Cops pulled over the vehicle at State Street and Boerum Place, where they cuffed three women, aged 18, 18, and 30. The 30-year-old driver also turned out to have an outstanding warrant, cops reported.
Garage graffiti
Vandals defaced a Bond Street garage door sometime overnight on June 2, cops said.
The victim said she noticed the unidentifiable mess of blue graffiti on the glass window of the garage between Sackett and Union streets on June 3, and that the damage was done while she was either at work or asleep.
— Noah Hurowitz
