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By Matthew Perlman
Brooklyn Daily
84th Precinct
Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–Downtown
Parking problem
A road rager attacked another driver with a metal rod near the corner of Tillary and Jay Streets on Aug. 20, cops said.
The 33-year-old victim told police he was sitting in his parked car at 6:57 pm, when a silver Nissan pulled up and tried to parallel park in front of him. After the Nissan bumped his car several times, he got out and started arguing with the poor parker, according to a police report.
The other driver got out and punched the victim in the face, then went back to his car, grabbed a metal rod, and hit the guy in his gut, the report says. After the attack, he got in the Nissan and drove away, cops said.
Car cases
Police reported that thieves stole a motorcycle, two cars, and a van in the neighborhood this week, giving the area a few more pedestrians than it had before.
• First, a motor menace took a motorcycle from Pacific Street sometime between Aug. 11 and Aug. 13, police said.
The 25-year-old chopper owner told cops he parked his ride between Bond and Nevins streets at 8 pm on Aug. 11, and went to get it at 10 am two days later, but it was gone.
• A car klepto stole a 2003 Acura from the corner of Hicks and Joralemon streets sometime between Aug. 17 and Aug. 19, cops said.
The 27-year-old owner told police he parked the Acura at 6 pm on Aug. 17, and came back to get it two days later at 11 pm but it was gone.
• Then someone snagged a 2012 Toyota from its parking space on Dean Street between Hoyt and Bond streets sometime after Aug. 18 and before Aug. 23, cops said.
The 37-year-old owner told police he parked his ride at 11:45 pm on Aug. 18, and went to check on it at 4:15 am on Aug. 23, but it was gone.
• And a 53-year-old woman told cops her 1996 Plymouth Voyager went missing from the corner of Nassau and Gold streets on Aug. 23.
She parked the Plymouth at 1:30 am, and it was gone by 4 that afternoon, cops said.
Flagrant fraud
Police are after a man who they said stole $98,134 from his employer, a Remsen Street healthcare vocational school, by writing false checks to himself between June 24 and July 24, according to a report.
Officials at the school between Clinton and Court streets noticed the money missing while conducting a financial review, and discovered two checks written to a 33-year-old employee that they did not authorize, the report says. Officials filed the report on Aug. 18 at 3 pm.
Easy target
An opportunistic burglar stole electronics and jewelry from a first-floor Bergen Street apartment while the resident was away between Aug. 12 and 18, cops said.
The 29-year-old victim told police her window was half way open when she left her apartment between Hoyt and Bond streets for vacation at 7 pm on Aug. 12. When she returned at 5:50 pm on Aug. 18, she found her front door wide open, according to a police report.
The crook took a laptop, a cellphone, some video games, and a pair of turquoise rings, the report says.
Tech taken
A quick-moving culprit snagged a laptop off a Dumbo tech-worker’s desk on Aug. 19, when he left it unattended for 15 minutes, police reported.
The worker told cops he left his office, on Main Street between Front and Water streets, with the door unlocked and the computer on his desk at 1 pm. He returned at 1:15 and it was gone, cops said.
Phone grab
A degenerate grabbed a cellphone from a woman on the corner of Dock and Front streets on Aug. 20, according to authorities.
A 19-year-old woman told cops she was standing near the intersection at 2:30 pm when a sneak crept up from behind, grabbed her phone from her hand, took off down Dock Street and turned right on to Front Street.
Park prowler
A park prowling gunman held up a man on Pier 5 in Brooklyn Bridge on Aug. 16, according to police.
The 26-year-old victim told cops he was at a barbecue on the pier, which is near the corner of Joralemon and Furman streets, at 1 pm when a guy came over and showed him a silver handgun. The victim forked over his wallet and cellphone, and the gunman took off, police said.
Tool taker
A quick crook took a man’s tool bag while he was removing a ladder from his work van on Court Street on Aug. 22, authorities stated.
The 37-year-old worker told cops he put the bag down on the sidewalk between Bergen and Deans streets at 8:20 am so he could unload the ladder. Then he saw a sneak come by, take the tools, and take off running down Court Street towards Atlantic Avenue.
— Matthew Perlman