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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Daily
61st Precinct
Sheepshead Bay—Homecrest— Manhattan Beach—Gravesend
Bagged
A thug beat and robbed a woman on Voorhies Avenue on Nov. 10 — taking her handbag.
The victim told police that she was near Shore Parkway at 12:42 am when the crook appeared out of nowhere, said, “F--- you,” and then began pummeling her in the face, until the victim fell to the ground.
The coward then ripped the victim’s purse — which contained clothes, her debit card, and MetroCard from off her shoulder — and fled on foot, cops said.
Gift of gab
Cops cuffed a man who they say threatened a woman into giving up her valuables on Shore Parkway on Nov. 7.
The victim told police that she was beween Nostrand Avenue and Haring Street at 11:35 pm when the suspect approached.
“Give me everything you got, or I’m gonna do you dirty,” the suspect allegedly snarled.
The victim, chilled to the bone, dropped her pocketbook that included her smartphone and $163, before fleeing.
After the victim felt far enough from her attacker, she found a phone and called police.
Officers picked up the victim within minutes and she was able to idenfitity the suspect from inside a police cruiser.
The suspect was found in possession of the victim’s property during his arrest, according to police.
Card crooks
Police are hunting for two men who they say stole nearly $500 worth of American Express gift cards from a Nostrand Avenue drug store on Nov. 7.
A worker told police she was at the store between Avenues Y and Z at 3:35 pm when the crooks walked right in and started plundering her gift card rack. The crooks stuffed a black bag with nearly 100 cards, valued at $4.95 each, by the time the worker was able to react.
She tried grabbing the bag, but the man merely ripped it from her grasp and the crooks fled into a gray sedan outside, cops said.
Bad day
A thief ransacked a man’s E. 26th Street apartment on Nov. 8 — taking jewelry and looting a safe containing $60,000.
The victim told police that he left his home between Avenues W and X at 6:30 pm and returned an hour later to find his back window broken.
Inside, the victim discovered the thief had made off with about $1,000 in jewelry and, to his horror, the $60,000 from his safe, cops said.
Mattress fund
A burglar nabbed $8,000 from a man’s E. 18th Street apartment on Nov. 8.
The victim told police that he and his family had left the house between Avenues Y and Z at 9 am, and returned at 3 pm to find their front door ajar. The family also discovered that the theif nabbed the $8,000 that was kept under a mattress.
The theif had actually penetrated the home from the back. He cut through a fence, and then crawled inside through an unlocked kitchen window, cops said.
Real gentlemen
Two thugs beat a woman with a metal pipe on E. 12th Street on Nov. 8.
The victim told police that she riding her bike near Avenue Y at 11:20 pm when the fiends jumped up from behind a building and began beating her with pipes.
The thugs left her on the pavement with deep gashes in her face, and she was eventually taken to Lutheran Hospital for treatment, cops said.
Bad kid
A 17-year-old was arrested for allegedly beating a man and attempting to slash him with a box-cutter on Avenue U on Nov. 2.
The victim told police that he was between E. 18th and E. 19th street at 9:57 pm when the suspect began slugging him in the face. The suspect then took up a box-cutter and rushed at the victim, although the man was able to avoid the blade, cops said.
— Colin Mixson