88th Precinct
Fort Greene–Clinton Hill
Cab crook
A ne’er-do-well attacked and robbed a cab driver on Flatbush Avenue on May 6.
The victim told cops that he and the belligerent bruiser got into a squabble over cab fare between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue at 5:45 p.m., and that the baddie pulled his navigation device from his dashboard and pushed him to the ground
The lout then took the cab driver’s car keys and made a run for it, cops said.
Cyclist tackler
Police arrested a teen who they say violently robbed a bike courier on Classon Avenue on May 8.
The 14-year-old suspect allegedly pushed the 17-year-old victim off of his bike while he was trying to deliver food near Fulton Street just after 10 p.m., snatching the food and making a run for it, police reported.
Cops then arrested the suspect at Lafayette Avenue, between Tompkins and Marcy avenues some 20 minutes later, according to authorities.
Group robbery
Three villains robbed two teens at the Nevins Street train station on May 9.
One 14-year-old victim told cops that he was at the station near Flatbush Avenue at 4:30 p.m. when the baddies walked up to them and demanded that they hand over their cellphones, with one nogoodnik threatening he had a knife.
The rogues took the kids’ phones, MetroCard, and college identification before fleeing the scene, officers reported.
Pervy purloiners
Two dirtbags robbed and sexually assaulted a woman on Steuben Street on May 9.
The victim was walking home from a friend’s house when the dirtbags walked up to her, asking her for the door code of a building between Park and Myrtle avenues at 2:30 a.m., according to police.
When she told them she didn’t know, the reprobates snatched her bag and grabbed her by her vagina before making a run for it towards Park Avenue, cops said.
Park mugger
A woman sustained bruised knees and hands after two louts mugged her in Fort Greene Park on May 9.
The victim told cops she was between DeKalb and Myrtle avenues, just before midnight when the two wretches walked up behind her, pushed her to the ground, and grabbed her tote bag, before making a run for it.
A stone’s throw
A scalawag threw a rock through a Fulton Street restaurant on May 8, injuring a man.
An unknown bruiser outside the eatery near Clinton Avenue threw the rock inside the kitchen at 7:30 p.m., hitting the victim in the back of the head, according to police.
Bottle bruiser
Police arrested a man for allegedly throwing a bottle at a woman in a Myrtle Avenue playground on May 11.
The victim told cops that she had an argument with the suspect and that he allegedly threw a bottle at her face, causing bruising, swelling and strong pain, near N. Portland Avenue at 7:30 p.m.
— Kevin Duggan
