CROWN HEIGHTS — A 32-year-old man was hospitalized this week after he was stabbed in the legs by a group of men who drove him home from a party, police said.
The victim told police he was being driven home by a man named “Blue” after a party in Crown Heights in the early morning hours of March 27 when he got into an argument with Blue and other passengers inside the car.
At the corner of Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Avenue, the dispute turned physical, police said. During the brawl, the victim said someone in the car stabbed him multiple times in the legs and he was kicked out of the vehicle.
He returned home after the fight to sleep, but woke up a short time later to go to Kings County Hospital for treatment of the stab wounds. The suspects are still at large, 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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► A 28-year-old cab driver was punched and robbed by three passengers who skipped on their fare from Manhattan to Crown Heights. Police said the driver picked up the suspects in the city and drove them to Rogers Avenue and Eastern Parkway around 10:30 p.m. on March 25, where they refused to pay for the ride. As they were leaving the car, one of the suspects snatched the driver’s iPhone and $40 in cash from his console. The driver caught up with one of the suspects, who punched him in the left eye. All three passengers fled southbound on Rogers Avenue.
► A 23-year-old man told police a man he didn't know stabbed him with an object inside 1651 Carroll St. around 2:00 a.m. on March 26. After the assault, the man walked across the street to 350 Utica Ave. before police and emergency workers found him and took him to Kings County Hospital for treatment of non-life threatening lacerations to his chest.
► Nearly $12,000 in watches, jewelry and clothing were stolen from a 48-year-old man at his Rutland Road home on March 27, police said. The man came home to his house, located between Nostrand and New York avenues, around 4 p.m. and discovered locks on the front and bedroom doors broken and his apartment ransacked. Earrings, sneakers, a Montclair jacket and six watches — including a $3,000 Breitling — were taken, totaling $11,972 in missing property.
► A 15-year-old was threatened with a knife and robbed for his cellphone, police said. The robbery took place opposite 575 Rutland Road around 7:40 p.m. on March as the teen was walking eastbound on Rutland. Four unknown suspects, each approximately 18 years old, came up to the victim and told him “run yo pockets” [sic] while one in the group threatened him with a knife. They took his Boost Mobile phone and cash from his pockets and fled on foot.
► A 45-year-old liquor store employee was hit in the head with a bottle by a man who came into his story at 1042 Nostrand Ave., police said. The worker said the man, who he did not know, came into the shop, Crosstown Liquors, around 9:50 p.m. on March 29, started an argument and then threw the bottle at him, which cut his head. The suspect then fled on foot out of the store and down Nostrand Avenue.
► A 48-year-old woman told police that all four tires on her 2014 Jeep were slashed and her windshield broken between 10:30 p.m. on March 25 and 7:00 a.m. on March 26 as it was parked outside 1710 Carroll St.
