90th Precinct
Southside–Bushwick
Choked
A brutish ruffian attacked a man on Harrison Place on Feb. 9, and stole his wallet.
The 24-year old victim told police that he was leaving a bar near Knickerbocker Avenue at 1:45 am and headed to meet some friends when someone came up behind him and got him into a chokehold. The wrestler demanded the man hand over his wallet.
“Do you want to die?” the thief asked him.
The victim handed over his wallet and the robber fled.
Strong-armed
Two teenagers jumped a 59-year-old woman and stole her purse on S. Fourth Street on Feb. 6, police report.
The woman told police that she was near Marcy Avenue at 7:30 pm when two men ran up to her and one of them pulled the purse off of her arm. She said she struggled with them and fell down, injuring her knee and hand.
The pair ran off, but cops say they nabbed a 16-year-old suspect found with the purse in his possession.
Withdrawal
Three robbers broke into an ATM on S. Second Street on Feb. 6 — and got away with cash.
A tenant across the street from the bodega between Marcy Avenue and Havemeyer Street told police he was looking out of his window at 12:50 am when he saw one man use a power tool to unscrew the bottom of the ATM and another one pull cash out of the machine.
When they were done with the heist, all three of them jumped into a black car and sped off.
Flip out
Cops cuffed a 17-year-old after he allegedly beat a man with his skateboard while riding the G train on Feb. 7.
The victim told police that he got into an argument with the suspect while riding a Kensington-bound train at 8:40 am. The situation escalated, and the suspect started beating the 42-year-old man over the head, cops said.
Police apprehended the suspect as he was leaving the station near Broadway, and charged him with assault. The victim went to Woodhull Medical Center, where he received 15 stitches to his head, police said.
Pantry burglar
A burglar crept into a Harrison Avenue apartment on Feb. 10 — and woke the sleeping tenant while rummaging through her food pantry.
The woman told police that she was asleep in her abode between Lynch and Middleton streets at midnight when she awoke to strange noises in the kitchen.
When she walked out of her bedroom to see what was happening, she spotted a man running out of the building and found the items in her pantry had all been tossed around as if someone had been looking for something.
She guessed that the man got in because her children left the front door open.
Not convincing
A thieving shopper doused a store clerk with pepper spray after the employee confronted the customer for shoplifting on Broadway on Feb. 8.
The clerk told police that he was working at the store between Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street at 6 pm when he noticed a customer behaving suspiciously. He followed the man, who then turned and confronted him.
“Why do you always watch me when I’m here?” the customer asked, and then sprayed the clerk with pepper spray and ran away with a pair of jeans, boxers, socks, a sweatshirt, and a T-shirt.
Quick thinking
A teenager tried to snatch a cellphone from an L train rider at the Morgan Avenue stop on Feb. 10, but was foiled by the quick-thinking victim and nearby police, officials said.
The victim told police he was riding the train at 7 pm. When the doors were about to close at the station near Harrison Place, a teenager grabbed the phone out of his hand. The 30-year-old man jumped out of the train and grabbed his iPhone back, and police officers who were nearby arrested a 17-year-old suspect.
— Danielle Furfaro
