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A teenage Park Sloper was pepper-sprayed and slashed by a purse-snatcher on Nov. 29, but the dim-witted thug was seen fleeing in a flamboyant ride with Bad Boy-inspired plates.
The 19-year-old victim was on Eighth Avenue at 8:30 pm when she was assaulted by a tan-jacket-wearing thief who sprayed her with Mace then cut her arm and fingers in his successful attempt to slice her purse strap.
Thirty dollars richer, the hood ran around the corner onto Lincoln Place, where a witness said he saw him jumping into a black Escalade with the vanity plate, “Bigness,” believed to be a reference to rapper Biggie Smalls.
Sidekick (and punch)
Three thugs jumped a man on 14th Street on Nov. 24 — all for his phone.
The 30-year-old victim had reached the corner of Sixth Avenue at 8:20 pm when the gang came up from behind and started to mercilessly punch and kick him. The hoods snatched his Sidekick, leaving the man bruised and bleeding.
Truants on 2
A gang of thugs snatched a phone and laptop from a New Jersey woman on the 2 train on Nov. 26 — but a helpful witness recovered the computer nearby.
The victim told cops that she thought the four teenagers looked suspicious as soon as she got on, but she wasn’t jumped until the train pulled into the Bergen Street station at 1 pm. The scrawny perps — all estimated to be about 5-foot-5, 130 pounds — grabbed her Blackberry device and wrenched the Thinkpad away in full view of two other straphangers before running off the subway.
Lowe-est
A hard-working Staten Island contractor’s tools were stolen from his truck while he shopped at the Lowe’s hardware megastore on Nov. 28.
The victim was in the store for just 10 minutes, but when he returned to his white Suburban at 9:50 am, the driver’s-side lock was broken, and $1,300 in power tools were gone.
Compu-served
Two Seventh Avenue apartments were burglarized using the same M.O. this week, and thieves made off with computer equipment in both cases:
• A crook broke into an apartment at Seventh Street through an unlocked kitchen window between 2 and 5 pm on Nov. 24 and made off with two Apple laptops and $2,000 in jewelry.
• Another thief robbed an apartment at Carroll Street while its residents were away from 1 pm on Nov. 24 to 8:30 pm on Nov. 26. The brawny burglar waddled away with a 30-inch Dell monitor.
Sweetheart deal
A brazen hood robbed a Fifth Avenue bank of $3,212 on Nov. 24 — but the quick-witted teller gave him a little something extra that may lead to his arrest.
Cops say that the robber approached the teller at 9:35 am and said, “Sweetheart, this is a bank robbery. Give me your money, including the hundreds.”
The teller complied, but the thug told her to hurry up — and warned her to remove the dye pack or “you’re gonna get hurt.” The hood fled down Carroll Street with a sack of cash, including a $10 “bait bill” that could later be tracked.
— Zeke Faux
