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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Gravesend—Sheepshead Bay—Gerritsen beach
Redbull renegade
A gun-wielding thug robbed a hapless clerk at a Knapp Street convenience store on April 28, ransacking the register and the store’s stash of Redbull.
The victim told police that he was working the register at the store between Voorhies and Harkness avenues at 11:40 pm, when the suspect waltzed in, scooped up a roll of Bounty paper towels and a case of Redbull energy drinks. The crook plopped his groceries on the counter, drew a pistol, then uttered his demands.
“Give me money motherf*****,” the crook barked.
The thug then took $200 from the register — and his groceries — before fleeing south-bound on Knapp Street.
Beating it
Cops are hunting two teenage punks for robbing an 11-year-old boy on a stopped NYC Transit bus on April 29. The theives took the boy’s Beats headphones then fled out the bus’ emergency exit.
The victim’s mother reported the crime at the 61st Precinct. She said her son was on the bus at 3 pm when it stopped at Avenue U near Nostrand Avenue. The boy was minding his own business when one of the punks grabbed the headphones off his head. The punk ran for the rear exit, where his teenage cohort held open the bus’ rear emergency exit door. The victim tried his best to get his headphone’s back, grabbing the second teenager’s hoodie in an attempt to prevent his escape. The older boy easily tossed him to the bus floor and fled the vehicle, according to police.
Don’t talk to strangers
A teenage thug walked off with a 12-year-old boy’s phone after asking to borrow it on E. 14th Street on April 29.
The victim told police that he was near Avenue S on his way to a school bus at 2:30 pm, when the suspect asked if he could use the boy’s Sensation 4G cellphone. The victim naively handed over the cellphone, only to watch the older boy slink away without returning it. The 12-year-old hustled to catch up to the punk, asking for his phone back, but the crook pulled a knife out of his pocket, a not-so-subtle implication that the younger boy should scram.
Fire entrance
A crook looted a woman’s E. Eighth Street apartment on April 29 after sneaking in through a fire escape window.
The victim told police that she left her home between Avenues T and U at 7 am. She returned that afternoon to find her fire escape window ajar and her stash of silver jewelry looted.
Shove it
A 16-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly bashing another kid in the head with a shovel on Batchelder Street on April 23.
The victim told police that he was between Avenues X and Y at 3:35 pm, where he was involved in a spat with the suspect. According to police, the argument escalated then the suspect bashed the other boy with the shovel.
The strangler
A disgruntled ex-boyfriend allegedly strangled his girlfriend insider her West Street apartment on April 21, before taking her phone and $960.
The victim told police that she was inside her home between Gravesend Neck Road and Avenue W. At midnight her former boyfriend crawled into her apartment through a fire escape window and strangled her unconscious. The suspect then grabbed the victim’s property and fled the same way he came in, according to police.
Safe getaway
A burglar ransacked a woman’s Banner Avenue home, between E. 11th and E. 12th streets, on April 24, taking a safe filled with jewelry.
The victim told police that she left her home at 1:15 pm. She returned that evening to find her back door broken down and her bedroom in shambles. Not only did the crook take the victim’s jewelry, he took the safe she had stashed it in.
Sheepshead Bay slasher
Cops are hunting a 16-year-old boy for allegedly slashing a fellow Sheepshead Bay High School student with a knife on April 23.
The victim told police that he was on Avenue X between Batchelder and Coyle streets at 3:30 pm, when the suspect drew the blade and slashed him.
—Colin Mixson
Reach reporter Colin Mixson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4514.