Crime & Safety

Pizza Workers Face Off Over Cut Onions: This Week's Police Blotter

Scene at Luv N Oven on Nov. 15 anything but.

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

Et tu, pizza man?

Two men got into a verbal argument at Luv N Oven at 120 Dekalb Ave. on Nov. 15 that left one of them with a cut to the right thumb. According to cops, the fight broke out at 4 p.m. while a 25-year-old man was cutting an onion. During the dispute, the man waved a knife in a threatening manner, saying, "I will show you." The man then cut another man, 34, in the thumb.

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More details in last week's T-Mobile store robbery

Police said two men entered a T-Mobile store on Myrtle Avenue Nov. 14 and forced two employees into a backroom at gunpoint. During the incident, which began at 6:50 p.m., the robbers zip-tied the two storeowners and then removed phones from the store safe and cabinets. The men also took the workers' personal items. In total, $32,070 in goods was taken.

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Robbery

On Nov. 12 at 5:55 p.m., a 29-year-old was sitting at his desk at home when an unknown male opened the door to his Clinton Avenue apartment and pointed a shotgun covered under a black T-shirt at him. The perp then told him not to say anything or he was going to shoot. The robber took two MacBook Pro laptops, iPad 2 and iPhone 4 from the apartment.

On Nov. 15 at 8:30 p.m., a 46-year-old deliveryman taking an order to an address at Navy Walk was pushed to the ground and robbed by a couple of men — one of whom concealed his identity by holding a paper plate with holes cut out as a mask.

On Nov. 15 at 6 p.m., an 11-year-old boy was walking home from school on Adelphi Street when an unknown perp approached him head on and grabbed him by the arm while displaying a knife. The boy then gave him his school Metrocard and his hat. The perp fled north on Adelphi toward Lafayette Avenue.

On Nov. 17 at 1:30 a.m., a 43-year-old man was walking home on St. James Place when a man came from behind and put him in a chokehold. Another man then got on top of him. The robbers stole his ID, debit card, Metrocard and an unknown amount of cash.

On Nov. 17 at 8:10 p.m., a 26-year-old employee of a Lafayette Avenue grocery caught a teenage male stuffing a Rice Krispies treat into his pocket. When the worker approached him, the teen struck him across the face with a milk crate. Police later caught the boy.

Assault

On Nov. 12 at 7 p.m., a 54-year-old man was punched twice in the chest and hit by a crowbar in the left ribs by another man during an argument on Fulton Street and Hudson Avenue.

On Nov. 15 at 10 a.m., a 26-year-old woman said a man, 30, put his hands around her neck, choked her and tossed her phone out a window at Auburn Family Shelter in Fort Greene. The man, who was arrested shortly afterward, also threw hot coffee on her.

Burglary

On the night of Oct. 28, an unknown person entered a residence on Dekalb Avenue through a rear door and took two Mac laptops.

On Nov. 14 at 6:12 p.m., a 53-year-old man entered a garage owned by Insight On Site on Grand Avenue and took company property.

Larceny

On the night or early morning of Nov. 9-10, a woman's vehicle parked on Waverly Avenue was broken into and a Michael Kors purse, green card, car keys, iPod and checkbook stolen.

On Nov. 9, a woman riding the G line from Metropolitan station got off at Classon Avenue — at which time, she realized that her wallet was taken from her purse. The woman said the train was packed at the time so she wasn't sure who took her wallet.

On Nov. 14 at 7:10 p.m., a woman felt another person stick her hand in her purse while riding the No. 2 or 3 train near Nevins St. station. When she confronted the person, he got off and transferred to another train across the station platform. An unauthorized $104 Metrocard transaction was later made on her AMEX card.

On Nov. 15 at 11:05 a.m., a man wearing a grey hoodie grabbed a 31-year-old woman's cellphone at Clinton-Washington Av G line station.

On Nov. 16 at 8 p.m., a car service manager at Myrtle Car and Limo Service reported that two men, age 38 and 32, submitted in excess of $1,000 in fraudulent trip vouchers over a period of time.

On Nov. 18 at 4:40 p.m. a 56-year-old woman had her iPad snatched from her hands by a teenage male on Cumberland Street and Lafayette Avenue. Police later arrested the 14-year-old perp.


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