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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Mole men
Some crooks tunneled their way into a Nostrand Avenue check-cashing business on June 7, but only stole the hard drive for a camera.
An employee told the police that the crooks entered the basement of a building between Avenue P and Quentin Road through the basement at 3 pm, where they proceeded to drill a hole through the ceiling and enter the business above through the floor.
Instead of taking cash, or any other valuables, the crooks only took the hard drive of a camera there, presumably where the device’s footage would have been stored.
Bad nails
A burglar stole $250 from an Avenue U nail salon on June 7.
The owner told police that she left the salon between E. 21st and E. 22nd streets at 3:30 pm, and a worker called her at 9:35 am the next day, telling her the place had been sacked. Cops agreed with the owner that the crook entered the salon by lifting a roll-down gate and then breaking in through the front door, in each instance busting up the property.
Bill bandit
A 37-year-old man was arrested for allegedly using his 60-year-old roommate’s debit card to pay the cable bill for their Ocean Avenue apartment on June 6.
The victim told police that he checked his bank bill and noticed an unauthorized charge of $53.18, and became suspicious of his roommate when he realized that the charge stemmed back to a cable tab to his own apartment between Gravesend Neck Road and Avenue W, cops said.
Strange slugger
Police arrested a 44-year-old man who they say beat up a complete stranger with a metal baseball bat on Sheepshead Bay Road on June 7.
The victim told police that he was near Shore Parkway at 5:20 pm when the suspect — who the victim said he’s never seen before — went wild with the slugger and bashed his left arm.
Cops gave the victim a ride around the block and he identified the suspect as his attacker, and the man was duly arrested.
The three thugs
Cops are hunting three teenagers for allegedly beating and demanding cash from a 16-year-old on Avenue X on June 5 — and then for beating him some more after he resisted.
The victim told police that he was between Batchelder and Coyle streets at 12:35 pm when one of the thugs socked him in the face and punched him in the gut.
“Ice up and run your pockets,” one of the crooks snarled.
The victim resisted, cops said, and tried to divorce himself from the sticky situation, but was nailed to the floor when the crooks began pummeling his face. Eventually, the goons sauntered off, and didn’t end up taking any of the victim’s property, cops said.
Impala poached
Two gun-wielding thugs jacked a man’s Chevy Impala on E. 15th Street on June 7, and, not to mention, the $8,000 of Lotto cash he kept inside the vehicle.
The victim told police that he was walking back to his Chevy parked near Emmons Avenue at 10:20 pm when the crooks popped up from behind him and leapt into the vehicle, which was running with the keys in the ignition, cops said.
Not safe
A crook lifted a safe containing $40,000 from a man’s E. Second Street apartment on June 7.
The victim told police that he left his abode between Quentin Road and Avenue P with his two daughters at 9 am, and returned at 9:30 pm to find his safe, which was bolted to the wall, had been removed from a hallway closet, along with his family’s passports and the cash.
Mums the theft
A thief of few words robbed a woman on Avenue W on June 9 — using hand gestures to communicate his intent to take her stuff.
The victim told police that she was talking on her cellphone between Shell Road and Stryker Street at 2:10 am when the crook approached her on foot and, without saying a word, gestured for her to hand over the goods.
The victim gave him her purse and took some steps away from the crook, but he gestured once again, this time demanding her cell. The victim handed that over, too, and the crook picked up a nearby basketball and fled, cops said.
— Colin Mixson
Reach reporter Colin MIxson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4514.