PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Four men were hospitalized after a knife fight broke out this week on the corner of Sterling Street and Rogers Avenue, police said.
The victims — all men between the ages of 22 and 32 — told police they were inside 426 Rogers Ave. when they got into a fight with a group of unknown suspects around 2:00 a.m. on Dec. 14.
A 30-year-old man was stabbed six times in the abdomen, back and bicep. A 31-year-old man was also slashed in the forearm and hand, while a 32-year-old man suffered cuts to both his hands, police said.
A 22-year-old man suffered a laceration to the right thumb, police said.
All of the victims were treated at Kings County Hospital.
No suspects have yet been identified in the assault, police said.
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 26-year-old man was arrested for selling crack cocaine after narcotics investigators saw him exchanging the drugs for money on the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Street at 12:10 p.m. on Dec. 10, police said. Officers arrested the man after the sale, but the buyer ran.
► A 41-year-old man told police he was stabbed in the lower back by a stranger in the lobby of an apartment building on Schenectady Avenue between Crown and Carroll streets at 11 p.m. on Dec. 11. The man was treated at Kings County Hospital. The victim could not tell officers the address of the assault.
► A 15-year-old suspect wearing a bandanna on his face and a hooded sweatshirt approached a 32-year-old man in front of 42 Hawthorne St. at about 1:40 p.m. on Dec. 12 and told him “give me all your money,” police said. The man refused, and police arrested the teen suspect soon after the attempted robbery.
► A 67-year-old resident of the Ebbets Field apartments on Bedford Avenue turned in two guns and four packets of bullets to police after telling them he’d found the weapons in a metal box at the bottom of a garbage chute in the building. The man told police he found the box after someone threw it down the chute around 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 12. It contained a .32 Smith and Wesson revolver, .38 special revolver and ammunition of various calibers, police said.
► A 23-year-old cab driver was forcibly robbed around 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 12 when five men approached his car while he was stopped at a red light at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue. He told police one of the suspects got into the front passenger seat and forcibly removed $60 in cash from the his hand. When the 23-year-old resisted, the suspect punched him in the head. The group of suspects then fled on foot eastbound on Empire Boulevard, police said.
► A 62-year-old man was arrested for ripping off the windshield wipers, antenna and side mirrors of his co-worker’s car at about 2:15 a.m. on Dec. 13, police said. He caused about $800 in damage to the car, parked on Washington Avenue near Carroll Street. The man has been charged with criminal mischief and two other related misdemeanors, court records show.
► Car thieves stole the tires off a 51-year-old woman’s Honda while it was parked in front of 336 New York Ave., she told police. The woman went out to her car around 11 a.m. on Dec. 13 and discovered the vehicle had been propped up on cinder blocks and all four of its tires and rims had been stolen.
