62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Bashed with bat
A trio of Bensonhurst brutes struck a man upside the head with a baseball bat on 86th street for no apparent reason on Sept. 7, police reported.
The 48-year-old man was on the street near 24th Avenue in Bath Beach at 4:25 am when three men — one in his 30s — descended on him, police said.
One took a swing at the victim’s head with a wooden bat, and another stabbed him in the shoulder, according to the authorities.
Smokey the bandit
A pistol-toting bandit stole $600 and cigarettes from a 16th Avenue deli before locking the proprietor in the basement and making a run for it on Sept. 6, cops said.
The gunman walked into the grocery between 79th and 80th streets in Bensonhurst like he owned the place at 8:10 pm, hopping behind the counter, whipping out the piece, and telling the clerk to fill the bag with cash, law enforcement officials said.
The counter worker complied and the fiend then pushed his victim into the basement and barred the door before fleeing toward 80th Street, officers reported.
Knifepoint shakedown
A pair of punks $200 from a guy they stuck up with a blade on the corner of 63rd Street and 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst on Sept. 6, police stated.
The man was standing on the street corner at 4:15 am when the knife-wielding duo flashed the weapon and took the guy’s cash, police said.
Robbed top to bottom
Some burglars busted down walls to steal from an 86th Street jewelry store on Sept. 3, according to a police report.
The unsubtle prowlers bashed a hole in the roof of a two-story building between Bay 28th and Bay 29th streets in Bath Beach sometime after 4 pm, the NYPD said. Once inside, they broke through the floor to get into a first-story jewelry shop, officers said.
The break-in artists didn’t take anything from the top floor, but they made off with jewelry from the ground-floor store, a report states.
— Max Jaeger
