90th Precinct
Southside–Williamsburg
No fare
Two taxi passengers assaulted their driver on Morgan Avenue on May 22 because they didn’t want to cough up the fare.
The victim told cops the man and woman hailed him at Johnson Avenue around 3:20 am, and asked to go to the Bronx. But the three started arguing over the rate the driver asked for, and the passengers left the car and started kicking the vehicle, cops said.
The driver got out, and the man hit him in the face, before the woman smashed a glass bottle on him, cutting his head open, the report said.
The victim then followed the duo in his vehicle to Bogart and Grattan streets, where they shattered the right rear passenger-side window, police said.
The victim then followed the crazed couple on foot to Thames Street, where five other guys hit him and stole his phone and $25, according to the police report.
Hair today, gone tomorrow
A guy stole a woman’s phone from her hands after cozying up to her on a Manhattan-bound L train on May 20.
The victim told police she boarded at the Bushwick Avenue station around 9 pm, and the guy sat next to her and asked her a question about her hair.
But when the train reached the Grand Street stop, he snatched her phone from her hands and escaped onto the platform, according to a police report.
The woman stayed on the train until it reached Union Square. She used the “Find my iPhone” feature around midnight and got a location near Ingram Street and Porter Avenue, but the phone is now turned off, police said.
Tired of this
A dastardly duo attacked a man as he was trying to change his tire on Borinquen Place in the early morning hours of May 21.
The victim said he was working on his car near S. First Street at 3:20 am when two rogues approached him from behind and said, “Don’t move,” in Spanish. The guy turned around anyway, and saw one of the men pointing a gun at him, a report said.
He tried to get away but the duo grabbed at him and all three fell to the ground in a scuffle, during which one of the bad guys cut the victim’s arm, before the perps ran off, police said.
Oh, snap!
A creep attacked a woman when she tried to break up a fight between him and her nephew on Moore Street on May 22.
The victim was walking out of her building near Leonard Street at 6:40 pm, intending on dropping her keys off to her uncle, when she noticed her nephew arguing with a man.
She broke up the fracas, but the guy then turned on her, smacking her in the face with a Snapple bottle and hurting her left eye, according to the report.
Bloody dispute
Police cuffed a lady who they say stabbed her boyfriend in an argument turned bad on Bedford Avenue on May 21.
Officers responded to a call of a man bleeding from his stomach near S. Fourth Street around 9 pm, the report said. The victim said he and the woman were arguing when she allegedly stabbed him with an unknown object and he lost enough blood to pass out, according to a report. Police arrested the woman at the scene.
Un-safe
A woman stole a small gray safe and the $10,000 that was in it from a Moore Street home on May 18.
Police said the thief’s mother — who was living with the victim — saw the crook leave the house near Humboldt Street at 1 pm with the loot.
Jumping for a cellphone
A quartet followed and attacked a drunk man on Broadway on May 17, police said.
The intoxicated victim entered a store near Havemeyer Street at 3:30 am, where the brutes punched, kicked, and stomped on his head, then stole his iPhone from his pocket before running off, police said.
Bring him home
An unknown man called a woman at her home near Scholes Street on May 17 and threatened to kill her brother if she did not send him $1,000.
The woman said she was home near the Avenue of Puerto Rico when she received the call near 1 pm. The man said he was in a car crash with her brother and he was holding him hostage, and if she did not pay, he would shoot her bro, police said.
— Tatiana Hernandez
