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By Matthew Perlman
Brooklyn Daily
88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Jarring encounter
A DeKalb Avenue store clerk accidentally hit a customer in the face with a jar of peanut butter while trying to throw it at a man he was arguing with on Aug. 14, cops said.
The clerk was arguing with the guy inside the bodega between S. Portland Avenue and S. Oxford Street at 9:40 am, according to a police report. The guy chucked something at the clerk, who returned fire with the peanut butter but missed, striking a 19-year-old woman who was standing nearby, the report says.
The woman walked across the street to the Brooklyn Hospital Center for treatment, police said.
Coffee house hold up
An armed robber held up a Fulton Street cafe on Aug. 22 — making off with cash and a laptop, police said.
Customers told cops they were in the cafe, which is between Grand and Classon avenues, at 9:35 pm when a man came in with a hand gun demanding money. He told one customer to put their cash in a bag and said, “I don’t want to kill anyone,” according to a police report. Then he pointed the gun at a guy who was on his laptop and told him to put that in the bag as well, the report says. The customers complied and the gunman took off, police said.
Bag grabs
Cops said two unattended bags were snatched by a pair of women in separate Fort Greene establishments on Aug. 21.
The 23-year-old owner of the first purse left it alone inside a bar on Lafayette Avenue between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue at 7:30 pm, according to a police report. She saw two women come in, take the purse, and take off, the report says. The victim told cops she saw the women fleeing on Fulton Street heading back towards S. Portland Avenue.
A 51-year-old woman told cops she was sitting in a restaurant a block from the first incident on Fulton Street between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue at 8:40 pm. She also saw two women come in and grab her purse, which was hanging on the back of her chair, police said. This time the women ran outside and jumped in a car, cops said.
Car crisis
Auto owners reported four car thefts in the area this week, according to authorities.
• A 59-year-old owner of a 1997 Toyota Corolla told police he left his ride at the corner of DeKalb and Willoughby avenues at 2:30 pm on Aug. 16. He returned 45 minutes later and the car was gone, police said.
• A 45-year-old woman told cops she parked her 2000 Lexus at noon the same day, on Clermont Avenue between Greene Avenue and Fulton Street. She came to pick up her car on Aug. 19 at 8:19 am, and it was no where to be found, cops said.
• Someone snatched a third vehicle between Aug. 20 and 22, from its space on Carlton Avenue between Willoughby and Myrtle avenues, according to a police report. The 78-year-old owner of the 2006 Toyota Camry told cops he parked it at 11:30 pm on Aug. 20, and went to get it at 9 am two days later, but it was gone.
• The fourth car, a 1999 Honda Civic, went missing from S. Oxford Street on Aug. 22, cops said. The 39-year-old owner told police he parked his ride between Lafayette and DeKalb avenues at 1 am, and that when he returned at 11 am, it was gone.
Knife-point robbery
A knife-wielding wacko robbed a woman on S. Portland Avenue on. Aug. 19, authorities said.
The woman told police she was walking towards Hanson Place from Atlantic Avenue when a man approached her and said, “I want to take your bag.”
The guy pointed a knife at her, took her bag, and ran down S. Portland back towards Atlantic, according to a police report. The bag contained two pairs of glasses, a debit, and credit card, the report says.
Visitor violated
Someone snatched a wallet from a Nebraska-native’s purse while she road the G train on Aug. 18, authorities reported.
The 28-year-old told police she got on the train in Manhattan at 1:30 am, transferred to a G train in Brooklyn, and rode it to the Clinton-Washington station on the corner of Lafayette and Waverly avenues.
She noticed the wallet missing when she got home, according to a police report. The wallet contained credit and debit cards, one of which someone charged $200, the report says.
Bad bus ride
A sneak stole a woman’s wallet out of her purse while she road a B38 bus on Aug. 19, cops said.
The 39-year-old passenger told police she was riding the bus at 5:30 pm, and knew she had the wallet, which contained debit and credit cards. Someone bumped into her during the ride, and when she got off the bus 15 minutes later at the corner of Lafayette and Washington avenues, she noticed her wallet was gone, police said.
— Matthew Perlman