CROWN HEIGHTS — A 19-year-old was arrested this week for forcibly trying to steal a deliveryman’s moped and then attacking a Good Samaritan who tried to call the police, according to the NYPD.
The teen confronted the 45-year-old delivery worker around 1 p.m. Sunday as he was taking food to 250 Crown St. between Rogers and Nostrand avenues, police said. He grabbed the man by the throat and demanded money from him, then asked for the keys to his moped.
The 45-year-old dropped the keys. When the teen couldn’t figure out how to ride off with the motorized bike, he fled into the apartment building. There, he grabbed a 44-year-old man who had witnessed the attack, demanding, “Why did you call the police?” according to the police report.
He was later arrested and has been charged with assault and menacing, court records 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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► Bullets hit two parked cars on Hawthorne Street near Nostrand Avenue when multiple shots were fired at about 2 p.m. on Sept. 30. Police recovered two bullets at the scene. No one was injured in the shooting, police said.
► A 23-year-old woman was robbed of $130 in cash when an unknown man threatened her with a black firearm displayed in his waistband and removed the money from her coat pocket in front of 270 Crown St. around 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 1.
► A 49-year-old man was robbed of an HP laptop worth $1,600 and “religious items” worth $2,400, he told police, after unknown robbers came into his home on Midwood Street between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues on Oct. 2 between 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. There was no sign of forced entry, police said.
► Two men were arrested after assaulting and trying to rob a worker at a Nostrand Avenue salon. The 24-year-old woman was working behind the register at the store at 1154 Nostrand Ave. at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 3 when the two men walked in and brandished a loaded firearm at her and demanded her purse. One of the men grabbed the victim and bit her, she told police. The two men were later arrested and charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, assault and attempted robbery, court records show.
► Two men were shot and wounded in a shooting outside of 660 Rogers Ave. near Clarkson Avenue around 1:00 a.m. on Oct. 4, police said. A 22-year-old man was shot in the right shoulder and walked to Kings County Hospital for treatment. A 37-year-old man was shot in the left buttocks and was later removed to Kings County, as well. No suspects have been identified in the shooting.
