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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Big bully
A thug robbed two 14-year-old boys on Brown Street on March 3, taking cash and a cellphone.
The victims told police that they were near Avenue U at 3 pm when the suspect approached them with his hand placed menacingly in his pockets.
“What you got?” the suspect barked. “I’m not playing, I’m going to search you.”
The crook then grabbed $20 from one the victims, and another $20, plus an Android cellphone from the other and fled south down Brown Street, cops said.
Garbage-bag goon
A pistol-wielding perp stole three bags of black garbage bags from a man on Nostrand Avenue on Feb. 18.
The victim told police that he was near Avenue V at 1:40 pm when he spotted the crook looting the garbage bags he’d left in his work truck. When the victim moved to stop the thief, the man lifted a silver, automatic handgun out of his waistband and barked a threat, according to police.
“Back up, or I’ll put one in you,” the thug growled.
Teen terrors
Two knife-wielding teens robbed a 14-year-old boy on Avenue U on Feb. 18, taking his iPhone.
The victim told police that he was near Van Sicklen Street at 12:50 pm when the teens asked him for the time — a request the boy wisely refused. One of the pint-sized perps then asked the victim to take a walk with them, and again the boy refused.
Finally, the teens drew a knife, took the victim’s phone, and fled towards McDonalds Avenue and headed south, cops said.
Bottle bashed
A bottle-wielding thug bashed a man on Kings Highway on March 3.
The victim told police that he was between McDonald Avenue and E. Second Street at 4:27 am when someone hurled a bottle at his head. Cops say they might have a lead on some security footage along Kings Highway, but so far nobody has been able to ID the glass-chucking goon, according to police.
Straightened out
A 16-year-old girl is pressing charges against her older sister, who allegedly beat her with a hair straightener inside a Avenue R apartment on Feb. 26.
The victim told police that she was inside her apartment between E. 12th and E. 13th streets at 11:45 pm when and argument with her 22-year-old sister escalated until the older sibling began beating her with the hair-styling appliance.
It came from above!
Cops are searching for a mysterious bottle-throwing thug who struck a man on Avenue W on Feb. 25.
The victim told police that he was between Nostrand Avenue and Batchelder Street at 11:19 am when, without warning, a bottle collided with his head.
“I don’t know where it came from,” the victim told police. “But it came from above.”
Jewel heist
A crook ransacked an 84-year-old woman’s Ocean Avenue apartment on March 2, taking jewelry.
The victim told police that she left her home between Jerome and Voorhies avenues at 5 pm and returned a mere two hours later to find her apartment in shambles and thousands of dollars worth of jewelry missing.
The woman found that a bathroom window leading to a fire escape had been left ajar, according to police.
Ransacked
A thief plundered a woman’s Ocean Parkway home on March 1 — taking an iPod, laptop, fur coat, and jewelry.
The victim told police that she left her home Avenue P and Quentin Road at 4:30 pm and returned the next day to find that her front door was blocked from the inside.
Going around back, she found a broken window and a back door that was left ajar. Inside, she found that her apartment was in utter shambles, her property missing, and that her front door had been barricaded with a kitchen chair.
— Colin Mixson
Reach reporter Colin MIxson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4514.