Hammering head
Police locked up a 45-year-old fiend after he repeatedly bashed another man in the back of the head with a hammer at the corner of Ashland Place and Myrtle Avenue on March 27.
The victim, 51, lost consciousness and suffered lacerations from the whacks to the cranium at 12:14 pm. He was taken to Long Island College Hospital for treatment.
Take the lunge
A knife-wielding maniac on Hall Street stabbed and mugged a woman on March 28.
The attack, which resulted in a “small laceration” to the victim’s stomach according to police reports, took place at 5:42 am between Willoughby and DeKalb avenues. According to the woman, the man brandished the blade and said, “Don’t scream or I’ll cut you.” But he wasn’t a man of his word because he immediately lunged and cut the woman with the shiv.
He then slashed the strap on her purse and ran off with the pocketbook, containing a Blackberry, $15 and her passport.
Cats and dogs
A man and woman were arrested for assaulting a police officer inside the Daffy’s department store on Flatbush Avenue on March 29.
The troubles began at 2 pm when the man, 22, and the woman, 24, tried to bring a cat and dog into one of the other stores in the Bruce Ratner-run Atlantic Terminal Mall.
A security guard blocked them, so the couple scurried off with their critters to Daffy’s. A police officer followed them there, but a dispute arose, and the officer, a 35-year-old woman, received a laceration to her finger in the scuffling prior to arresting the animal lovers.
Knock-around guy
A hood mugged a 33-year-old man by knocking him to the ground at the corner of Willoughby Avenue and Washington Park on March 23.
The victim, who was attacked from behind at 8:46 pm, told police that the ruffian stole his iPod.
Phantom strike
A burglar mysteriously broke into a Clinton Avenue apartment between March 25 and 26.
There were no signs of how the intruder entered the residence between Myrtle and Lafayette avenues while the victim, a 42-year-old woman, was out from 2 am on March 25 until 7 am the next day.
She reported losing multiple earrings, necklaces, bracelets and rings, an iPod and $360.
