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By Max Jaeger
Brooklyn Daily
62nd Precinct
Bensonhurst—Bath Beach
Bucket lift
A burglar made off with two buckets full of power tools from an under-construction W. 11th street home on July 22.
The homeowner told cops he is building the house between Avenues T and U in Gravesend, and when he dropped by to check on progress at 5 pm that day, he noticed someone had forced his way into the home’s basement and removed power tools, police said.
A witness claims to have seen a man go behind the residence empty-handed and return with two buckets containing the tools, reports state.
Mi casa es su casa
A sticky-fingered window shopper lifted a woman’s purse from an open house sale on Bay 23rd Street on July 27.
The victim was helping her friend sell off her belongings, and the pair was hosting a “house sale” out of the friend’s home between Benson Avenue and 86th Street in Bath Beach, police said.
The victim left her pocketbook unattended on a table, and once a little more than 20 people filed through the home by 3 pm, she noticed the purse was missing, law enforcement sources said. The handbag contained $5 cash, credit and debit cards, and identification, reports state.
Sour deal at sweets shop
A pair of bandits stole a woman’s purse from a Bay 40th Street pastry store counter on July 5.
One perp kept watch at the store’s entrance near 86th Street at 3:26 pm while the second went in and snatched the clutch before both fled the scene, police said.
He let the dog out
A home invader let a woman’s pet loose and choked out his victim during a 20th Avenue break-in on July 22.
The man burst into the home between between 80th and 81st streets in Bensonhurst at 3 am, causing damage to the front door and releasing the victim’s pet pooch, police said. Then the brute grabbed the woman by the neck and began threatening her, police said.
— Max Jaeger