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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Bike bandits
Five goons beat and robbed a man on E. 23rd Street on Sept 14, taking his sports bike and iPhone.
The victim told police that he was near Avenue R at 12:30 am when one of the thugs ran up to him shouting, “get off your bike!”
The victim refused, but four other men suddenly appeared and surrounded him. One of the crooks shoved the man off of his bike, before the gang started beating him while he lay on the ground, and took his valuables.
Assault and batteries
Cops arrested two men for allegedly stealing Duracel, Energizer, and Everyday Energizer batteries from an Avenue Y supermarket on Sept. 10 — and participating in a little battery of their own.
The victim told police that he was working at the store between E. 17th and E. 18th streets at 9:43 pm when he noticed the suspects grab some batteries and shove them in a bag. As they were attempting to leave, one of the suspects punched the victim several times, cops said.
Knife guy
Cops are hunting for a knife-wielding goon who they say robbed a man on Avenue U on Sept 10.
The victim told police that he was near E. 17th Street on his way home at 1:45 pm, when the suspect asked him for some cash. When the victim declined, the crook took out his knife. The victim, thinking twice, handed over $95, and the crook fled on foot.
Fast ball
Cops are hunting for an intruder who they say assaulted a man inside his E. 16th Street home on Sept 5, and took the man’s Chinese currency.
The victim told police that he left his house between Avenues U and T at 9:33 am, and returned just a few minutes later to find the stranger snooping around inside his house. Before the victim could do anything, the crook hurled an object at him, striking him right upside the head, and fled with roughly $100 worth of Chinese money, cops said.
Purse purloin
Two thugs robbed a 44-year-old woman of her purse on E. 15th Street on Sept 5.
The victim told police that she was near Sheepshead Bay Road at 4:30 am when the goons snuck up behind her and grabbed her pocketbook by the strap. As they pulled on the purse, they took the lady with it, and she was thrown to the ground and struck her head against the pavement. The crooks made of with the bag, which contained a cellphone, gold chain, and cash.
iSnatcher
A crook made his way into a man’s E. 14th Street home on Sept 15, taking an iPad.
The victim told police that he left his home between Avenues X and Y at 3:50 pm, and returned an hour later to find a rear window ajar and his iPad missing from his kitchen table.
Pay day
Someone ransacked a man’s E. 12th Street home on Sept 12.
The victim told police that he left his home between Avenues U and V at 6 pm, returning an hour later to find his ladder propped up against his bedroom window, which was unlocked, and $7,000 worth of jewelry missing.
The copper capper
Some crook scavenged $3,000 worth of copper from a Coney island Avenue construction site on Sept 8.
The victim told police that she left the work site between Avenues U and V at noon, and returned at 9 am the next day to find the valuable metal, along with a water heater, had been looted.
— Colin Mixson