CROWN HEIGHTS — Police arrested five teenage girls caught joyriding a stolen Lexus near the Ebbets Field apartment complex, blocks away from where the car went missing two days earlier, officials said.
The girls, aged 14 and 15, were spotted driving on McKeever Place in the gray 2014 Lexus about 12:55 a.m. on Feb. 10, police said.
Officers stopped the car after seeing it blast through a stop sign on the corner of Franklin Avenue and Sullivan Place, the NYPD said.
They discovered the car had been stolen two days earlier from Bedford Avenue near, Lincoln Place, from a 50-year-old Long Island man who had been having dinner in the neighborhood.
All five girls will be charged in family court as juveniles, police said.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush include:
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► Police are looking for a teenage suspect who shot a dog in the back during a robbery on Eastern Parkway on Feb. 10. The dog’s owner, a 26-year-old man, was walking his pet on the parkway between Troy and Schenectady avenues at 4 a.m. when three men demanded he hand over his cell phone. One of the men threatened the victim with a handgun, then fired a round into the dog’s lower back after the animal startled the group of muggers, police said. The suspects took the victim’s cell phone and fled on foot. The victim was uninjured during the assault. The dog was treated for the gunshot wound and is expected to survive, police said.
►A 54-year-old man said his work van and plumbing tools were stolen from Hawthorne Street overnight on Feb. 13 into the morning of Feb. 14. The man said he parked the Ford Econoline van outside of 421 Hawthorne St. at 10 p.m. on Feb. 13, then returned to the vehicle at 6:10 a.m. the next morning to discover it had disappeared, along with various tools, plumbing materials and an MTA parking permit.
