Two gunman mugged a man near the Gowanus Canal on Nov. 29, but didn’t get far with his iPod and phone before cops collared them.
The victim told police that he was on Union Street between Third Avenue and Nevins Street at around 10 pm when a man approached, pulled a black handgun and screamed, “Get on the ground and give me everything you have!”
The man got down, allowing a second perp to rifle his pockets for the digital music player, the phone and $45 before the two thugs fled.
It’s unclear how cops nabbed their suspects, but the police report indicates that the arrests came just minutes after the crime.
Mad hatter
A gang of four hoodlums stole a woman’s hat right off her head on Seventh Avenue on Nov. 29.
Cops said that the quarrelsome quartet approached the woman near Garfield Place at about 3 pm and started yelling sexually suggestive curses at her. During the verbal assault, one of the thugs snatched the hat off her pate, and all four fled towards Prospect Park.
Phone pick
In the latest proof that talking on a cellphone is often the first step in getting it stolen, a thief grabbed a teenager’s as she chatted on it on Dec. 3 on Eighth Avenue.
The 17-year-old told cops that she was between First and Second streets at around 7:30 pm when a thief ran up from behind her, grabbed the phone and kept on running.
Ice burgs
There were at least six reported burglaries last week. Here’s a round-up:
• A thief took more than turkey when he broke into a Fourth Street apartment, stealing two computers and a camcorder sometime between Nov. 24 and Nov. 28. The resident of the apartment, which is near Seventh Avenue, said her back window was broken before the crime.
• A woman told cops that only her ex-boyfriend and her “ex-friend” had access to the basement apartment in her Union Street building — and she thinks one of them took her computer and jewelry on Nov. 26. The 45-year-old was not in the unit, which is between Seventh and Eighth avenues from 10 am to 1 pm that day. There was no sign of forced entry, so maybe she’s onto something.
• A thief used a fire escape to enter two apartments in the same Third Street building on Nov. 28, leaving with a computer and a Nintendo game system from one and a laptop from another. One resident said he discovered the crime in his apartment, which is between Sixth and Seventh avenues, when he came home at 5 pm. The other said she found out about the crime three hours earlier.
• A man told police that he returned to his Fifth Street apartment on Dec. 2 to “remove his belongings by court order” only to find that all of his photography equipment — $38,000 worth of it — had already been removed by someone else. The 42-year-old victim had no clue about who took the high-end cameras and lenses from the apartment, which is between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
• A thief took advantage of lax security at a Fifth Avenue construction site on Dec. 2, stealing two heavy-duty saws. Police said the crook entered the job site, which is at 13th Street, at around 11:30 am and was gone in 600 seconds.
Old gold
Yet another ancient car — this time a 1996 Toyota Camry — has been swiped off a neighborhood street.
The latest example of a senior set of wheels disappearing came overnight on Dec. 1 when perps broke into the sedan near the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway sometime between 7 pm and 2:30 pm the next day.
— Gersh Kuntzman
