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By Will Bredderman
Brooklyn Daily
68th Precinct
Bay Ridge—Dyker Heights
Nailed
A thug with a gun tried to hold up a nail salon on 64th Street on Dec. 30 — then chickened out and scrammed empty-handed, police report.
Store workers told cops the would-be-stick-up man barged into the parlor near 11th Avenue at 3:10 pm with his weapon drawn.
“Do you want me to shoot someone?” he demanded.
But before he could get any cash, the lowlife turned tail and ran.
Doubled down
A pair of punks mugged a man on 70th Street on Jan. 2, according to cops.
The victim said he was walking home near Colonial Road at 11:30 pm when one perp came up behind him and the other approached from the front.
“Give me what you got, run your pockets,” the goon facing him demanded.
The victim surrendered his phone and $20 in cash, and the terrible twosome took off on foot.
Order’s up
Police picked up two men on New Year’s Day who they claim were behind an eight-day food-runner robbery spree.
Cops said the pair attempted to hold up a Chinese-food deliveryman at the corner of 86th Street and Gelston Avenue on Dec. 30. The chop suey carrier reported that he showed up with food at 8 pm, and found one of the defendants waiting for him. The suspect told the courier to go into the basement, where he claimed his mother had money for the meal. But the deliveryman looked down the steps and saw a man standing at the bottom with a gun — so he took off on his bicycle.
Authorities allege the pair was more successful on Jan. 1 — though the crime let police finally nab them. Cops reported that the duo stopped another deliveryman at gunpoint at the corner of 92nd Street and Seventh Avenue at 3:51 pm and took an unspecified amount of cash. When police canvassed the area shortly afterward, they arrested the pair.
Authorities have also charged the duo with three armed muggings of meal couriers at the corner of 88th Street and Seventh Avenue between Dec. 24 and Dec. 28.
Smoked out
Two burglars raided a Fifth Avenue deli and made off with thousands in tobacco products and cash in the early hours of Dec. 29, police state.
Store employees reported locking up the shop at the corner of 73rd Street at 2 am. When they came back four and a half hours later, they discovered the front door bolt broken and $1,800 in cigars and cigarettes — plus $300 in cash — missing.
— Will Bredderman