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BENSONHURST: Knife-wielding thug holds up man for cash, phone

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By Will Bredderman

Brooklyn Daily

62nd Precinct

Bensonhurst—Bath Beach

Sharpie

A thug stuck up a man at knifepoint on Bay 41st Street on July 29, police report.

The victim told cops he was walking between 86th Street and Benson Avenue at 10:20 pm when the lowlife came up to him and put the tip of the blade against his stomach.

“Give me your wallet,” the villain ordered.

The victim gave up his wallet — with $80 inside — and his iPhone, and fled.

Shave too close

A fiend cut a drunk man below the lip with a box-cutter on Avenue O on Aug. 3, according to cops.

The victim said he was walking between W. Eighth and W. Ninth streets at 1:35 am when the crook came up and slit him just under the mouth.

Bold as brass

A crook ripped off a bundle of brass pipes from a W. Fourth Street apartment building on Aug. 3, authorities report.

Cameras show the crook smashing the rear basement window of the tenement between 65th Street and Avenue O at 2 pm. Once inside, the lowlife looted the supply room of the valuable metal tubes.

Puerto Rican hustle

A con artist scammed a 66-year-old woman into wiring $540 to Puerto Rico on July 31, police state.

The victim said she got a call at her home on 69th Street between 16th and 17th avenues at 2:10 pm. A man on the other end told her he had kidnapped her nephew. The fraudster warned the woman he would shoot the boy unless she sent money via Western Union to a woman in the island town of Bayamon.

The woman complied, only to get a call from her nephew — who was walking around free and oblivious — shortly afterward.

Tireless

A thief jacked the tires and rims from a car parked on 23rd Avenue on July 30, cops say.

The victim said he left the vehicle between Benson Avenue and 86th Street at 8:30 pm — and returned the next morning to find the wheels stripped to the hubcaps.

— Will Bredderman

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