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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
iFight
A thug beat and robbed a woman on Bedford Avenue on Aug. 12, taking her iPhone 5.
The victim told police that she was between Avenues Y and Z at 2:30 pm when the crook waltzed up and punched her on the right side of her face, before grabbing her smart phone, and fled on foot heading east along Avenue Y.
Jewel thief
A prowler looted a 78-year-old woman’s Nostrand Avenue apartment of her jewelry on Aug. 9.
The victim, speaking through an interpreter, told police that she left her apartment between Avenues T and U at 9 am, and returned at 2 pm to find her front lock tampered with, her door ajar, and several thousand dollars worth of jewelry missing.
Subway brawl
Cops arrested at 23-year-old man in the mezzanine of an Avenue U subway station for allegedly trying to rob a man on Aug. 10.
The victim told police that he was entering the subway station near McDonald Avenue at 3 am when the suspect approached him and uttered his demands.
“Give me your wallet,” the suspect allegedly growled.
“F--- you,” the victim replied.
The suspect then allegedly tried to grab the victim’s wallet from his pockets, and the two began battling, in a fight that eventually spilled into the mezzanine, where police found the pair and arrested the suspect.
Bad date
Cops are hunting a 50-year-old man who they say raped a 32-year-old woman inside his Nostrand Avenue apartment sometime in April.
The victim told police that she was hanging out with the older man when he took her back to his home at the Sheepshead Bay houses, between Avenues W and X, at midnight, where he tried to kiss her.
When she refused his advance, however, the man held the woman’s arms behind her, ripped off her clothes, and then forced himself on her, according to police. The victim, who reported the crime on Aug. 11, said she only remembers the date as sometime in April, cops said.
Barbershop beat down
A goon beat and robbed an 18-year-old man inside a Nostrand Avenue barber shop on Aug. 9 — taking his Beats headphones.
The victim told police that he was between Avenues V and W at 4:30 pm, when the suspect struck him in the face and grabbed his pricey headphones.
Bottled up
Cops arrested a 22-year-old man for allegedly attacking some other guy with a broken bottle on Avenue X on Aug. 10.
The victim told police that he was near Brigham Street at 8:43 pm when the suspect punched him in the face and then attacked him with the glass shiv. The victim said he had never met the suspect before the attack. Police said they found a “twist” of marijuana in one of the suspect’s shoes, but didn’t elaborate.
In plain sight
A 19-year-old man was arrested for his alleged attempts to break into a man’s E. 26th Street home on Aug. 10 — while in plain view of the victim and his neighbor.
The victim told police that he was at his home between Avenues S and T at 9:15 pm, when the suspect began making repeated attempts to pull, yank, and kick his way into the man’s house. When the suspect decided he wasn’t getting in through the front door, he allegedly hoped over a fence and tried the back door, which is where cops found and arrested him.
Gang attack
Five thugs beat and robbed a man of his Samsung Galaxy cellphone on Brown Street on Aug. 11.
The victim told police that he was near Avenue V on 8:25 pm when the pack of thieves ambushed him from behind, bashing him on the back of the head and taking his phone and wallet while he lay on the ground.
— Colin Mixson
Reach reporter Colin MIxson at cmixson@cnglocal.com or by calling (718) 260-4514.