PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A local woman woke up to find robbers in her Lefferts Avenue home during a break-in this week, police said.
The 36-year-old was asleep in her bedroom around 5 a.m. on Sunday when she heard footsteps and noise in her living room and called 911.
When police arrived to the house, located between Bedford and Rogers avenues in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, the robbers had already left through a window. They took $315 worth of property in total including a Lenovo laptop, the woman’s wallet and $100 in cash that had been hidden in a potted plant on a shelf.
No suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made in the crime as of Thursday, police said.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens include:
► A 10-year-old boy was robbed of his bicycle inside the Parkside Playground on Winthrop Street between Bedford and Rogers avenues at 4:30 p.m. on July 27. He told police an unknown male pushed him over and took the red and black bike, worth about $150.
► A pizza delivery man was pistol-whipped and robbed by a 14-year-old who was later arrested, police said. The man was delivering a pizza to 1651 Carroll Street near Utica Avenue around 7:30 p.m. on July 26, police said, when the teen approached the 32-year-old worker, threatened him with a gun, struck him multiple times around the head with it and took $49 from the man. The boy, who lives in the building, was later arrested when the delivery man identified him to police.
► A witness observed a man point and shoot a gun before fleeing in a black SUV on President Street between Classon and Franklin avenues around 10 p.m. on July 22. When police responded to the scene, one .38 caliber round was recovered. No one was injured in the shooting, police said.
► Police responded to a call of shots fired at the corner of Rogers Avenue and Hawthorne Street around 3:45 a.m. on July 23. When police responded, eight shell casings from a 9MM gun were recovered and one bullet hole was found in the wall of 569 Rogers Ave. No one was injured and no suspects have been identified, police said.
► A 48-year-old man was robbed of two chain necklaces when an unknown male suspect attacked him as he walked on Winthrop Street near Flatbush Avenue around 10:30 p.m. on July 25. The man punched the victim, pushed him to the ground and forcibly removed two necklaces — a yellow metal chain and a Jesus pendant — from the 48-year-old’s neck and fled southbound on Flatbush Avenue.
► A 29-year-old man broke his leg while trying to escape a mugging that happened around 5 a.m. on July 26, police said. The victim said two men approached him outside of his home on Maple Street near Utica Avenue, displayed a silver firearm and struck his face with it. The man tried to run away, but fell and broke his leg, he told police. The two men caught up with him and took $300 cash, one silver ring and a silver Rolex watch from him. The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital for treatment and no suspects have been identified.
► A 48-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint by two males at the corner of Schenectady Avenue and Empire Boulevard around 8:40 p.m. on July 26. The men stole $890 in cash, a Samsung cell phone and a white gold chain from the victim.
► Four men wearing bandanas robbed a 22-year-old man of his iPhone, $50 and an iPad mini around 6:45 a.m. on Eastern Parkway between Nostrand and New York avenues on July 28, police said. The crew drove up to the man in a van, exited the vehicle and threatened him. Then they fled in the same car with his property.
