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CRIME BLOTTER: Teens Try to Rob Prospect-Lefferts Pizzeria

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Two teenagers tried to rob a neighborhood pizza shop last week, police said, but fled empty-handed during the brazen daytime attempted robbery.

Investigators said the two boys, approximately 15 years old, entered Corona Pizzeria at 658 Rogers Ave. near Clarkson Avenue around 2 p.m. on Thursday, July 30 and told workers to give them “all the money from the register,” witnesses told police.

One of the boys simulated a gun underneath his shirt, though he never openly displayed a weapon. The other boy threw an empty box at a 57-year-old female worker.

A short time later, the pair fled southbound on Rogers Avenue without stealing anything.

There were no reported injuries, police said, and no suspects have been identified.

Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens include:

► A 25-year-old man was arrested on July 29 after he threatened and robbed a worker at a realty office. The 35-year-old victim was closing the storefront of EPIC Realty at 701 Flatbush Ave. near Winthrop Street at 11:15 p.m. when the robber approached him, threatened to shoot him with a simulated firearm, then took $50 and a Nexus tablet worth $299 from the office. He was arrested a short time later outside of a Parkside Avenue apartment building nearby, police said.

► A woman was assaulted while doing her laundry at 1185 Carroll St. by two people who approached her in the building’s laundry room around 7:50 p.m. on July 29 and began arguing with her. One of the assailants, a woman, punched the 26-year-old victim multiple times in the face. The other, a man, began choking her from behind. The two suspects fled, police said. The victim suffered scrapes under her right eye and marks around her neck.

► A 56-year-old woman was assaulted and robbed of her bicycle at 11:30 p.m. on July 30 at the intersection of Sterling Street and Nostrand Avenue, police said, by a 25-year-old man who pushed her to the ground and rode off with the bike. Police arrested the man later that night.

► A car and a van were broken into at a parking garage at 908 East New York Ave. near Utica Avenue between 5 and 6 p.m. on July 30, police said. Robbers popped the driver’s side lock on a 2008 Chevrolet and stole a wallet. Nearby, they also broke the lock on a 2006 Ford van, but took nothing from inside the vehicle.

► A 26-year-old man was arrested on July 31 for attempting to rob a bodega at gunpoint, police said. The man entered Nostrand Deli Farms at 1040 Nostrand Ave. near Sterling Street around 10:40 p.m. and pointed a black firearm at customers, who ran out of the store. He was arrested a short time later; it’s unclear if he took anything from the shop before police responded to the robbery.

► A 34-year-old woman was put into a headlock and robbed at 1:30 a.m. on August 2 near Winthrop Street and Kingston Avenue. The man approached her from behind, locked his arms around her neck and demanded she give him her purse. She tried to punch him several times, she told police, but fell down. He grabbed her purse and fled.

► A 27-year-old man was arrested for driving while intoxicated after he smashed his car into a police vehicle outside of the 71st Precinct station house on New York Avenue and Empire Boulevard around 3:45 p.m. on Sunday, August 2.