68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Brutal
A wicked woman blindsided a random lady, punching her in the face and stealing her purse on 73rd Street in Dyker Heights on Nov. 25, police reported.
The 58-year-old victim said she was near 12th Avenue between 7:30 pm and 7:45 pm when the fiend came up behind her, socked her in the face, and fled with the handbag.
Tool crime
Someone stole $6,960 in power tools from an Ovington Avenue home sometime between Nov. 26 and Nov. 27, cops said.
The resident, who lives between 12th and 13th avenues in Bensonhurst, said the sneak broke into the basement between 5:30 pm on Nov. 26 and 6 pm the next day and took the goods.
Frisky
A cat burglar took a camera and two gold chains from an Ovington Avenue residence on Nov. 28, officers stated.
The resident, who lives between Fifth and Sixth avenues in Bay Ridge, said someone entered the house through a fire-escape window and bagged the loot while he was out, sometime between 9 am and 11:30 pm, NYPD officials said.
Trickster
A grifter conned an elderly woman out of $1,500 on Nov. 22, according to the authorities.
The fraudster called the 71-year-old at her 74th Street home in Bay Ridge at 10 pm and said she owed money to the Internal Revenue Service, police said.
The con artist told the granny to buy a prepaid debit card and read the card number and personal identification number to him over the phone, and the victim complied, according to a report.
Speed: Rated R
A scoundrel snatched a phone from a straphanger aboard a Bay Ridge-bound R train on Nov. 27, per cops.
The train pulled into the Bay Ridge Avenue station, and when the doors opened, the thief ripped the phone from the 51-year-old man’s hands and fled the station, police said.
— Max Jaeger
