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By Max Jaeger
Brooklyn Daily
62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Everything but the kitchen sink
A Bensonhurst man is accused of breaking into his neighbor’s 19th Avenue apartment and stealing cash, jewelry, and a counter-top stove on April 17, police reported.
The victim only came forward about the crime on July 17, police reports show. The resident said he locked his doors and windows before leaving his apartment between 83rd and 84th streets on April 17, but when he returned he found his stove missing — along with jewelry and $1,550 in cash, police said.
Socked in the street
Two thugs punched a guy in the face and tried to rob him on Bay 29th Street on July 22.
The man was walking between 86th Street and Benson Avenue at 1:40 am when the pair of perps appeared and started punching him in the face and demanding money, law enforcement sources said.
One of the assailants grabbed the man’s backpack and began rifling through it looking for cash, and when he found none, he threw the bag aside and began searching the victim’s pockets, police said. The victim called out for help and the attackers fled, police said. The victim called 911 and was taken to Coney Island Hospital for treatment of his injuries, reports state.
Snatch-and-grab
A Russian ruffian snatched two chains from a 75-year-old woman’s neck in the lobby of her Quentin Road apartment building on July 18.
The woman got off her B82 bus at W. Fourth Street and Kings Highway at 1:30 pm, and the goon followed her to her apartment at the corner of Quentin Road and W. Third Street in Bensonhurst, according to police.
In the lobby, he issued a proclamation in Russian, saying, “If you want to live, give me your chains,” before snatching two chains from the woman’s neck and fleeing, reports state.
Caught in the act
Two would-be tire thieves were caught red-handed by a Quentin Road man on July 20.
The man exited his home near W. Fourth Street at 3:40 am and saw two ne’re-do-wells wrenching the lug nuts off his wheels, police said. The pair had already set up cinder blocks to rest the car on once they’d finished the deed, reports show.
But the man confronted the two tire takers, who fled in separate directions, law enforcement officials said. One ran westbound on Quentin Road and was picked up by a white van with Pennsylvania tags, police said. The second ran eastbound on Quentin Road toward W. Third Street, reports state.
— Max Jaeger