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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Better left alone
A case of shoplifting turned into a beating on Smith Street on Aug. 22, when a shop proprietor chased a couple of punks down the block for swiping a bottle of soda, cops said.
Upon observing the two young men walk out of the establishment between Baltic and Warren streets without paying for their soda pop, a manager at the store confronted them, to which the soda-guzzlers didn’t take kindly, police said.
One of the wise guys punched the shopkeeper in the face and both sped off on foot, according to a police report.
Broken windows
A burglar smashed his way into a President Street apartment on Aug. 30 and made off with the tenant’s bike.
The victim told police she left her pad between Hicks and Columbia Streets at 1 pm and when she returned at 3:45 pm, she found a window smashed and her bike, which she valued at $200, missing, cops said.
Gone by Labor Day
Someone swiped a man’s bike from outside his Carroll Street house on Sept. 1.
The man locked up his two-wheeler outside his abode between Hoyt and Smith streets on Aug. 28, and when he returned to it at 4 pm on Sept. 1, the bike had vanished, cops said. The victim valued the mountain bike at $300, according to a police report.
Knife to meet you
An anti-social brute robbed a man at knife-point on Butler Street on Aug. 31, police said.
The man was standing on the sidewalk between Hoyt and Smith streets around 4:45 pm when a blade-wielding galoot threatened him with grievous harm, punched him in the face, and snatched some of the man’s belongings, a police report said.
The thief made off with pants, shoes, cash, and a baseball cap, cops said.
— Noah Hurowitz