61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Pancakes, eggs, and money
There were two break-ins at a Kings Highway diner two days apart, police said.
Cops cuffed a guy on March 31 who they say broke into the diner near E. Eighth Street at 5:10 pm on March 28 and removed $1,500 from the cash box, according to a police report. A cook was in the diner at the time of the burglary but did not see anything, police said.
The next day, a man made his way into the same diner through a window sometime between 1:30 and 5 am and removed $1,000 from the register, according to police. A manager got to the restaurant around 5 am and noticed the register was open and the window was broken, a police report states.
Police arrested a suspect on March 31.
Scared out
Two bad guys used a crowbar to break into an Emmons Avenue diner through a window on March 31, according to authorities.
The nogoodniks made their way into the eatery near E. 29th Street at 5:25 pm and walked around, police said. But an employee who was in the diner at the time confronted the two bandits and they fled through the same window without stealing anything, the witness told police.
Money snatchers
Police arrested a man who they say broke into a Coney Island Avenue business on March 29 and stole cash.
The suspect broke the rear glass door to get inside the business on Avenue P at around 3 pm and removed $400 in cash from the register and then $300 in cash from a drawer in a back room, police said.
The suspect was arrested on March 31.
They stole thousands!
A punk made his way into a grocery store on Avenue U sometime between April 2 and 3 and stole a lot of cash, according to police.
The prowler broke into the bodega on E. 78th Street sometime between 6 pm on April 2 and 7 pm the next day and removed $30,000 from a safe, according to authorities.
There was no visible forced entry, but video surveillance captured two guys in the store, a police report states.
Bad friends
Three weasels robbed a teen of money and her phone on Avenue V on April 2 after she posted a picture of the cash on social media.
The 16-year-old girl posted a picture of $2,000 on social media and received a call from a guy asking to meet up and take pictures of the moolah, she told police.
The victim told officers she met up with the creep near Brown Street at 4 pm, but he brought a second guy with him. A third goon then showed up and said he had a firearm and told the teen, “I know you have money,” according to authorities.
He stole the dough and her iPhone from her pocket and fled with the three other jerks, police said. The teen ran home and called police, according to a police report.
She told police she knew two of the crooks from school. She had no injuries and said she didn’t see a gun, according to authorities.
— Julianne Cuba
