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By Matthew Perlman
Brooklyn Daily
88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Teen team
Cops chased a pair of teens out of the Clinton-Washington subway station on Oct. 1, cuffing them on the street for allegedly swiping a woman’s cellphone, according to a police report.
As the train arrived at the station, near the corner of Lafayette and Washington avenues at 2:50 pm, one of the suspected thieves distracted the 20-year-old victim while the other grabbed her phone, witnesses told police.
The teens exited the train and the witnesses informed a police officer of what they had seen and he pursued the pair up the stairs and out onto the street, authorities said. He cuffed the kids after witnesses identified the 13- and 14-year-olds, officers said. They then resisted arrest, the report adds.
Snatch catch
Authorities arrested a man who they said pushed a woman before wrestling her cellphone from her hands at the edge of Fort Greene Park on Sept. 30.
The 31-year-old victim told cops she was on the stairs leading into the park near the corner of Willoughby Street and Washington Park at 12:25 pm when a guy came over, pushed her, and wrestled her cellphone from her hands.
The guy took off and she chased him to Carlton Avenue between Park and Myrtle avenues where cops cuffed the 18-year-old suspect.
Raging robber
A brutal degenerate snuck up behind a woman on the corner of Gates Avenue and Cambridge Place on Oct. 2, and punched her in the back of her head before taking her phone and taking off, cops said.
The 22-year-old victim told police she was walking towards Bedford Avenue at 8:09 pm, when the tough guy came up behind her and sucker punched her in the head.
The crook took her phone and started running down Cambridge Place towards Fulton Street and entered a building half way down the block, according to a police report. Interviews within the building failed to produce a suspect, the report says.
Cutter cuffed
Police arrested a man for allegedly cutting another man with a broken piece of glass in front of an Auburn Place building on Sept. 29, authorities stated.
The 23-year-old victim told cops he and the suspect were in front of the building, which is between Saint Edwards Street and North Portland Avenue, at 9:40 pm when the guy started swinging a piece of glass back and forth in front of his face.
He then sliced the victim’s head with the glass, causing a large cut, cops said. Emergency responders took the victim to Brooklyn Hospital Center while cops cuffed the suspected cutter, according to a police report.
Rim raid
Some mobile-minded crooks stole the wheels off of a car parked at the corner of Willoughby and Washington avenues on Sept. 29, leaving the vehicle on cinder blocks.
The 35-year-old car owner told cops he parked his 2011 Honda on the corner at 12:01 am, and returned nine hours later to find his rims and tires missing.
Subway sneak
A subhuman subway rider snatched a fellow straphanger’s phone from her jacket pocket on Sept. 30, and bolted into the Nevins Street station, police reported.
The 21-year-old victim told cops she boarded a Brooklyn-bound 4 train on the distant island of Manhattan at 8:30 pm, and was sitting next to the thief.
As the train pulled in to the Nevins Street station, which is near the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street, the goon grabbed her phone out of her jacket pocket and took off just before the doors closed, police said.
Terrible talk
A woman picked another woman’s pocket as they spoke in front of a Fulton Street building on Oct. 3, cops said.
The 30-year-old victim told police she was talking to the woman between S. Oxford Street and S. Portland Avenue at 7:20 pm, when the woman casually bumped into her. After the woman left, the victim noticed that her wallet had been removed from her coat pocket, cops said. The wallet contained a credit card, which was used to buy a pair of MetroCards minutes later, police said.
Burglaries
Police reported four burglaries in the precinct this week, three in residential buildings and one at a construction site.
• A burglar hit a Fulton Street construction site sometime between Sept. 26 and 29, cops said.
A worker at the site, which is between Downing Street and Irving Place, said the wooden fence was locked up at 4 pm on Sept. 26, and when they returned at 7:15 am on Sept. 29, the lock was broken and some equipment was gone. The crook took a generator, a circular saw, a chipping gun, and a skill saw, according to a police report.
• A creeping thief stole camera equipment and other items from a Washington Park home on Sept. 28, police reported.
The 36-year-old resident told cops he left the building, between Willoughby and DeKalb avenues at 7 pm, and returned at 11 the same night to find his front door open and his belongings burgled. The sneak got in through an unlocked window, according to police, and made off with a computer monitor, a digital camera, a vintage film camera, a leather duffle bag, and some cash.
• Someone snatched a laptop through the security bars of a Classon Avenue apartment the next night, according to a police report.
The 33-year-old victim told cops he was in the apartment between Gates and Putnam avenues at 11 pm on Sept. 29 when he last saw the computer at the foot of his bed beneath a window. He noticed it was gone three hours later, according to a police report.
Then the victim noticed that the screen to his window had been opened, but the security bars were still shut, the report says.
• A burglar struck a block away at an Irving Place apartment the next night — taking a camera, a laptop, and cash, cops said.
The 40-year-old victim told police she went to sleep in her apartment, which is also between Gates and Putnam avenues, at 12:01 am on Oct. 1. She woke up at 2:17 am, and discovered the items missing, according to a police report.
The victim suspects the crook made it in through a rear basement window that had been left unlocked, the report says.
Drivers beware
It was a grand week for auto thieves, as police reported four stolen vehicles in the precinct.
• Someone swiped a motorcycle from the corner of Navy Street and Park Avenue overnight on Sept. 25, cops said.
The 26-year-old owner told police he had gotten into an accident with the 2014 Kawasaki and left it on the corner on Sept. 24. He checked on the bike at 8 pm the next day and it was fine, but when he retuned at 8:30 in the morning it was gone, cops said.
• Someone stole a 2007 Honda Accord from Lefferts Place sometime between Sept. 19 and Oct. 1, police reported.
The 33-year-old owner told cops he parked the car between Saint James Place and Grand Avenue at 4 pm on Sept. 19, and that when he returned at 10 am on Oct. 1, it was gone.
• The owner of a 1998 Jeep reported that someone stole her vehicle sometime between Sept. 29 and Oct. 2 from Downing Street, according to a police report.
The 66-year-old woman told police she parked the jeep between Quincy Street and Gates Avenue at 6 pm on Sept. 29, and that it was gone when she checked on it at the same time three days later.
• A man also reported that his brother’s car was taken from its parking spot under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near Monument Walk on Oct. 3, according to police.
The 27-year-old told cops he parked his brother’s 1998 Nissan Maxima on Park Avenue near Monument Walk at 9:30 pm, and that when he checked on it through his window at 11, it was gone.
— Matthew Perlman