Crime & Safety

Gun-Toting Kid Threatens Girl For iPhone: This Week's Police Blotter

Every parent's nightmare unfolds in Fort Greene last week.

This blotter was compiled from information provided by the New York Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Robbery

  • On Nov. 8 at 5:19 p.m., a 13-year-old boy along with another unapprehended perp displayed a firearm to a 12-year-old girl on Adelphi Street and Lafayette Avenue demanding that she hand over her iPhone. The girl refused and ran away. Police arrested the boy after a search of the area at around 8:30 p.m.
  • On Nov. 8 at 3:30 p.m., a perp entered a Subway restaurant at 713 Fulton St. and took out a black handgun and demanded money. Cops are not sure how much was taken.
  • On Nov. 8 at 3:12 p.m., a 28-year-old female said that while she walked on S. Portland Avenue from Dekalb Avenue towards the train, a perp approached from the front, “checked” her in the left shoulder and grabbed her cellphone from her hand. Perp fled north on S. Portland toward Dekalb.
  • On Nov. 9 at 2:47 a.m., a 24-year-old man walking north on Grand Avenue near Lexington when three males walking south on Grand stopped him and demanded that he turn over his iPhone, cash and keys. The perps ran south on Grand and then west on Gates Avenue.
  • On Nov. 9 at 7:25 p.m., a woman said unknown perps stuck her in the face and took her white Sony headphones on the street at Carlton and Lafayette avenues.
  • On Nov. 9 at 7:20 p.m., a man, 22, said a man approached him while exiting a store on Dekalb Avenue and St. Felix Street and demanded to know where he was going. The perp then pushed the man to the ground and took his Beats by Dr. Dre headphones worth $250.
  • On Nov. 8 at 8:25 p.m., two males approached a 30-year-old man as he walked on Grand Avenue near Gates Avenue and displayed a 9mm firearm and demanded he hand over his bag. The man tried to run when the second perp punched him in the face and the first perp took the bag. Both perps fled east on Gates. The bag contained clothes and shoes.
  • On Nov. 10 at 5:15 p.m., a woman, 20, was inside the Pay-o-matic at 151 Vanderbilt Ave. when her father forcibly removed the money she received. The woman confronted her dad outside of the store when he made threats to inflict bodily harm. After a search by police, the father, 44, was arrested.
  • On Nov. 10 at 9:30 p.m., a 38-year-old woman said three perps approached her and demanded her jewelry after displaying a firearm on the street at Dekalb and S. Portland avenues. The woman said one of the perps threatened to shoot her. After stealing her gold necklace, earrings, Coach wallet, Tag Heuer watch and cash, the perps fled in a gray minivan with New York plates.
  • On Nov. 10 at 10:55 p.m., a man, 30, waiting for the elevator at 60 St. Edwards St. in Ingersoll Houses was the victim of an attempted robbery by two perps. The victim was able to identify his two attackers but they fled when police tried to apprehend them in front of 24 Monument Walk.
  • A sly crook snatched a woman’s wallet while shopping at the Atlantic Center Mall and she did not realize it until she went to pay at the Atlantic Terminal McDonald’s on Oct. 19. The 37-year-old victim told police that she went to pay at McDonald’s but realized her wallet was gone at around 3 p.m. The crook snatched $127 in cash and five credit cards. The crook also made a $120 purchase on one of her cards at Target.
  • A quick-handed thief snatched a monthly MTA and a monthly LIRR card from a woman while she was boarding a bus on Atlantic and Flatbush avenues on Nov. 8. The 32-year-old victim told police that she left the Long Island Railroad station at around 7:20 p.m. and was waiting for the B41 bus on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. When the bus arrived, the woman pulled out a cardholder with her monthly LIRR and monthly MTA metro cards inside and a crook ran up and snatched the cardholder out of her hands and ran away. The victim could not describe the thief.

Assault

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  • On Nov. 4 at 10 p.m., a 41-year-old male said a perp that he knew hit him with a broomstick on his head. The man was taken to Brookdale Hospital for a cut on his head.
  • On Nov. 6 at 8:44 p.m., a woman, 28, said her and another woman, 58, got into an argument at Tillary Street Women’s Shelter that turned physical. The younger woman said her attacker used a pen to scratch her on the left side of her face, narrowly missing her eye. The older woman was arrested.
  • On Nov. 7 at 9 p.m., a fight over food turned violent when a man, 27, tried to choke and then threatened with a kitchen knife a 25-year-old woman at 124 Carlton Ave. in Whitman Houses. At one point, the woman’s 6-year-old tried to intervene while the man was on top of her with a knife to her body.
  • On Nov. 11 at 2:45 a.m., a police officer saw a man, 31, slam a 16-year-old girl against the wall on Park Avenue near Waverly Avenue. The officer then saw the man start to choke the teen. The man then tried to evade arrest by swinging his arms at the officer and his/her partner and fleeing the scene on foot. The man was apprehended shortly afterward.
  • On Nov. 11 at 4:20 p.m., a 21-year-old woman said her sister broke her property at 5 Fleet Walk in Ingersoll Houses and then threw a pot at her.

Burglary

  • On Nov. 2 at 6:30 p.m., a 24-year-old man said he parked his U-Haul truck near 1 Carlton Ave. and upon his return an unknown amount of merchandise had been stolen. The lock was clipped from the rear door of the truck.
  • On Nov. 6 at 7 p.m., police arrived at the scene of a reported break-in at a residence on Washington Avenue near Willoughby Avenue. Upon arrival, the police found the front door open. Police later discovered a broken basement window in the rear of the premises. The owner said that nothing seemed to have been taken.
  • On Nov. 7, a driver for Town 7 Country Liquors returned to his parked vehicle on Waverly Ave. near Dekalb and found the front side passenger window broken and electronics, including a company-owned GPS, taken.
  • On Nov. 3, the owner of a $73,000 electric scaffold hoist discovered it stolen from a construction site at 395 Flatbush Avenue Ext.
  • On Nov. 9 at 4 p.m., a 37-year-old man returned to his residence on Downing Street to find his door open and his MacBook Pro missing.
  • On Nov. 9 at 5 p.m., a woman, 39, came home and discovered a necklace, flat screen TV, bracelet, ring and earrings stolen from her residence on Grand Ave near Myrtle Avenue.
  • On Nov. 9 at around 7 p.m., police arrested a man, 61, for possessing burglar’s tools while looking into the window of a commercial truck parked near 95 Emerson Place.

Larceny

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  • On Nov. 2, a 70-year-old man found out $1,206 in cash was removed from his account without his permission while checking his balance on an ATM on Myrtle Avenue. The theft was reported on Nov. 5.
  • On Nov. 1 at noon, a woman discovered her wallet missing after trying to pay for some items at a store on Ashland Place and Myrtle Avenue. The woman canceled her cards but then discovered fraudulent activity on a Capital One account. The woman filed a police report on Nov. 6.
  • On Nov. 7 at 6:45 p.m., a 24-year-old woman said her iPhone was stolen as she rode on a crowded B38 bus along Lafayette Avenue during a snowstorm.
  • On Nov. 7 at 11 a.m., a woman said someone purporting to be a deliveryman stole a $1,600 flat screen TV from her fourth-floor Clinton Avenue apartment building’s hallway while she went inside to check on her crying baby.

Grand Theft Auto

  • On Nov. 10, a woman reported her 2011 Audi stolen from 74 Lafayette Ave. after making a previous report about a pair of stolen car keys. Police on Nov. 11 later arrested two men, age 33 and 29, after they were stopped for speeding in the stolen car on FDR Drive in Manhattan.


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