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By Noah Hurowitz
Brooklyn Daily
76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Don’t follow your gut
A pair of galoots stuck up a food delivery man bringing food to a building on Centre Mall on Oct. 13, cops said
The 45-year-old victim was carrying an order of Chinese food to a building between Henry and Clinton streets at 9:30 pm when one of the hungry highwaymen approached him brandishing a silver handgun, according to a police report.
The delivery guy forked over the food, his cellphone, and $85 in cash, and the brutes scampered off down Henry Street in the direction of Lorraine Street, police recounted.
Soil change
A thief stealthily pilfered a bunch of money from a car parked on Baltic Street on Oct. 13, a report states.
The vehicle’s owner said he was across the street from his car, parked between Hoyt and Bond streets in Gowanus, from 7 to 8:15 am as he painted a truck, according to the authorities.
Sometime during that window, a punk snuck into his unlocked car and extracted $1,100 in cash, two checkbooks, a black wallet, blue jeans worth $150, and driver’s licenses belonging to the man and his wife, cops said.
Police are checking to see if surveillance cameras cover the area where the larceny occurred, a spokesman said.
Speedy getaway
A would-be stick-up guy got left in the dust when the taxi driver he was trying to rob on Clinton Street on Oct. 10 drove off, cops said.
The hack was picking up a fare at the corner of Mill Street in Red Hook at 2:40 am when the tough waving a silver revolver attempted to strong-arm her, per law enforcement officials.
The cabbie burned rubber and left the guy in the dust, cops said.
A report described the wannabe crook, last seen trotting down Mill Street in the direction of Henry Street, as 5-feett-7, 250 pounds, and wearing a green vest.
Not cool
A thief absconded with a wad of cash hidden in the walkin freezer of a Court Street restaurant sometime overnight on Oct. 9, police reported.
The owner of the restaurant between West Ninth and Garnet streets said $800 in cash had been left in the freezer at 6:30 pm on Oct. 9, but it was gone at 8:45 am on Oct. 10, cops said.
The refrigerator was locked and showed no signs of forced entry, according to an NYPD account.
— Noah Hurowitz