60th Precinct
Coney Island—Brighton Beach—Seagate
Surprise attack
A brutish robber sucker-punched a woman in her Bay 44th Street driveway and ran off with her handbag on March 7, according to a police report.
The good-for-nothing crept up on his victim as she was getting out of her car in the driveway of her home between Harway and Bath avenues just before 6 pm, police said.
He punched her from behind, then grabbed her bag, and high-tailed it to a car waiting on the street, according to authorities.
Robbers nabbed
Police arrested a two people in connection with an armed robbery in the lobby of a W. 23rd Street public housing building on March 11, according to a police report.
Authorities say the victim was in the lobby of the building between Mermaid and Surf avenues around 5:30 pm when the suspects whipped out a handgun and shook down the victim, police said.
Burned
Somebody stole a man’s tools he left in a crawl space in the boiler room of a public housing unit on W. 23rd Street sometime between March 3 and 7, police said.
He left the tools in the building between Mermaid and Surf avenues around 2:45 pm on March 3 and returned on Monday morning to find someone had swiped his torch, tools, and a tool bag. The doors were unlocked and the crawl space had no lock, police said.
— Dennis Lynch