CROWN HEIGHTS — Find any skeletons in there, too?
A 58-year-old Crown Heights woman turned over two guns, multiple packs of bullets and a holster to police this week, saying she found them in the back of her closet as she prepped to move apartments.
The woman told police she was packing up a closet in her place at 990 President St. around midnight on Nov. 10 when she found a .22 caliber revolver, a BB gun, at least six packs of bullets and a holster for the revolver in the back of the storage space.
She immediately turned the weapons into police and said in a report about the incident that she’d never seen the guns before and does not know how they got there.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens include:
The map above depicts only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from the precinct, click here.
► A 31-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach and arm by a stranger who approached him in front of 401 Troy Ave. around 6:20 p.m. on Nov. 5, according to the NYPD. The victim told police the suspect fled in a tan vehicle. The 31-year-old was treated for his wounds at Kings County Hospital.
► A 20-year-old man was robbed near Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue around 11 a.m. on Nov. 5 by two men who said they had a gun and told him “we don’t want to hurt you, but we gotta take your stuff,” according to a police report. The man was led to an isolated area nearby where the pair took his debit card and iPhone 6.
► A cab driver was robbed by a passenger who surreptitiously stole his wallet, then used his stolen credit card to pay the fare — for a trip to the local precinct. The 29-year-old driver told police he picked the passenger up around 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 7 near Livingston Street and Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn and dropped off the person at 421 Empire Blvd., the address of the 71st Precinct. As he drove away, he realized he was missing his wallet, then discovered the passenger had used one of his credit cards to pay for the trip to the precinct. The robbery suspect has not yet been identified, police said.
► Workers at the AT&T store at 1110 Eastern Parkway told police that a suspect came into the store with wire cutters around 9:15 a.m. on Nov. 9 and clipped two iPhones — a 6S and a 6 Plus — off their displays and fled the shop on foot.
► A man exposed his genitals to a 16-year-old girl riding the train home from school, police said. The man exposed his penis to the girl as they rode a southbound 2 train near the Winthrop stop on Nostrand Avenue around 1:40 p.m. on Nov. 9. She reported the incident to police after leaving the train car. No suspect has been identified; she described the man as being approximately 40 years old, 6 feet tall and 300 pounds.
► A shipping store on Albany Avenue was robbed of more than $150,000 worth of electronics after a break-in on Nov. 9, according to the NYPD. Police said an unknown suspect or suspects removed a metal bar from a rear window at 480 Albany Ave. around 2 a.m. and made off with 150 iPhones, 125 Apple iPad Minis, 300 Simple mobile phones, six Apple laptops and $400 in cash, totaling approximately $157,000.
► A 29-year-old man walking home at the corner of New York Avenue and Lincoln Road around 12 p.m. on Nov. 10 told police a man approached him and said “Why are you looking at me? Do you want me to stab you?” The suspect then lunged at the man’s stomach and fled. When the 29-year-old got home, he realized he had been cut on the stomach with an unknown object and that his jacket was torn where the man had struck him, police said. He went to Kings County Hospital for treatment. His attacker has not been identified.
