PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A man selling crack on Flatbush Avenue last week was arrested after officers saw him doing a deal on the neighborhood’s commercial strip in the middle of the afternoon, police said.
Narcotics investigators saw the 26-year-old man taking money from a buyer in exchange for crack cocaine around 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 29 at the northeast corner of Flatbush and Clarkson avenues, the NYPD said.
Officers arrested the man soon afterwards, while the buyer fled the scene on foot, police said.
When the officer searched the man, who is from Bedford-Stuyvesant, he was carrying three Ziplock bags of marijuana, two joints and a small amount of crack in a baggie, police said.
He was later charged with criminal possession of crack cocaine and possesion of marijuana, court documents show.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens include:
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► A 55-year-old worker at a hair-braiding shop was bitten by a suspect who stole his keys, police said. The man was opening Linda’s African Hair Braiding at 655 Flatbush Ave. around 6 a.m. on Oct. 29 when a man came to the shop’s door, police said. The worker told him the shop wasn’t open yet, but the suspect came in anyways, biting the worker on the arm before taking a ring of keys that open multiple stores in the area, he told police. The suspect fled on foot and has not been identified, police said.
► Three teen boys riding motorized hoverboards on Eastern Parkway between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues were robbed of the devices by a group of men who approached them around 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 29, police said. The suspects asked the boys, ages 14 and 15, to see the hoverboards, they told police. When they refused, the men punched them and took the scooter-like vehicles, worth approximately $1,700 in total, police said. The suspects fled in a gray minivan eastbound on the Eastern Parkway service road, authorities added.
► A 17-year-old was arrested for assaulting and robbing a 16-year-old boy at Parkside and Nostrand avenues around 4 p.m. on Oct. 30, police said. The teen and two others approached the 16-year-old, punched him and took his backpack and phone, police said. The two suspects involved in the robbery fled on foot and have not been identified.
► A food delivery worker was robbed at gunpoint on Rutland Road last week, police said. The worker was delivering food on the street between Nostrand and New York avenues at 2:20 p.m. on Oct. 30 when a male suspect punched him, put him in a headlock, forcibly took his wallet at gunpoint and then ran, police said. The man lost his debit and bank card, a state I.D. and medical card.
► A 55-year-old man was arrested shortly after 1 a.m. on Nov. 1 when officers saw him trying to break into 712 Crown St. with burglary tools, police said. After his arrest, officers found the man had multiple envelopes of heroin on him, police said. The man was charged and is being held on $3,000 cash bail, court records show.
► A 27-year-old man was robbed waiting for food in the parking lot of the Wendy’s restaurant on Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard this week, police said. The victim told police a black Chrysler reversed into his car around 9:50 p.m. on Nov. 2. When he got out to inspect the damage, the passenger of the Chrysler got out of the car, grabbed his cellphone, and then he and the Chrysler’s drivers fled on foot, police said.
► A male suspect riding a bicycle south on Washington Avenue near Montgomery Street snatched an iPhone 6 from the hand of a 24-year-old woman walking north on the street around 1 p.m. on Nov. 3, police said. Police said the man fled on the bike toward Sullivan Place.
