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Detective Chases Down Teen Who Attacked 82-Year-Old in Crown Heights: NYPD

 A 15-year-old was arrested for punching and robbing an 82-year-old man in Crown Heights last week, police said.
A 15-year-old was arrested for punching and robbing an 82-year-old man in Crown Heights last week, police said.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — A 15-year-old boy punched an 82-year-old man and stole the chain off his neck — before being chased down by a detective who witnessed the attack, police said.

The victim was walking on the corner of Schenectady and East New York avenues at 4:50 p.m. on June 19, when the teen ran up to him, punched him in the face and ripped the chain from his neck, police said.

An NYPD detective who saw the incident chased the thief and arrested him, authorities said.

The 82-year-old was treated for minor injuries at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and released, police said.

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

► A man wearing black sunglasses and a dark cap tried to rob the Banco Popular on the corner of Utica Avenue and Eastern Parkway at 9:10 a.m. on June 20. Police said he slipped a note to the bank teller demanding cash in $50 and $100 bills. When the teller walked away from the man without handing over money, he fled.

► Three teenagers stole a wallet from a 32-year-old woman as she was walking near the corner of Rogers Avenue and Winthrop Street at 1:40 p.m. on June 20, police said. The trio fled through the Parkside Playground on Winthrop Street. Police later recovered the woman’s wallet on the roof of 618 Rogers Ave., but $60 and a debit card were missing from it.

► Multiple residents near Franklin Avenue and Union Street reported hearing multiple gunshots at that intersection at about 11:45 p.m. on June 21. Witnesses observed a car fleeing the scene of the shooting east on Union Street. Officers who responded to the call recovered two 9MM shell casings and no injuries were reported.

► A man walking on Albany Avenue and Maple Street at 8:15 a.m. on June 22 was robbed by two men who approached him and asked him what he had in his pockets. The pair took the man’s iPhone 5 and $40 in cash, police said. The victim saw the butt of a handgun sticking out of the backpack of one of the robbers, he told police, but it’s unclear if the weapon was used to threaten him during the robbery.

► A 23-year-old woman told police burglars took $7,000 in cash and a pair of $600 Balenciaga shoes from her apartment at 712 Crown St. near Schenectady Avenue on June 19.

► A 20-year-old woman was walking south on Utica Avenue near Carroll Street at 5:40 p.m. on June 22 when a man came up behind her and snatched a chain necklace she was wearing. The man fled toward Rochester Avenue.