EAST FLATBUSH — Police arrested a 31-year-old woman in the neighborhood last week after she rummaged through a stranger’s apartment, then fell asleep — drunk — on the couch.
The tenant, a 42-year-old woman, told police she left her apartment in a two-family home on Midwood Street between Kingston and Albany avenues around 7 p.m. last Friday with the front door locked and her apartment door open, court documents said.
When she returned home around 10 p.m., she found her apartment door shut and locked. After opening the door with her keys, she found her dresser and cabinet drawers “ransacked,” court records said, the lock on her bedroom door broken and the highly intoxicated woman asleep on her couch, according to police.
The woman called 911 and officers arrested the couch-sleeper soon afterwards. She was charged with trespass, criminal trespass and criminal mischief, according to court records, and released from custody with an order of protection.
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 45-year-old man was arrested for setting fire to clothing inside a restroom at the Kingsboro Psychiatric Center at 681 Clarkson Ave., police said. The fire, started around 4:30 a.m. on April 13, set off an alarm and caused an evacuation of the facility. No one was injured during the incident.
► A 41-year-old man was arrested for threatening, spitting at and attempting to rob a 28-year-old man near Kings County Hospital, police said. Police said the man approached the victim as he was parking his car in front of 449 Clarkson Ave. around 8:00 p.m. on April 14 and asked him for change. When the man declined to give it to him, the 41-year-old said “f-ck you,” lunged at him, spit toward him and then kicked his car multiple times, police said. The man then opened the passenger side door of the car, took a backpack out, searched it, dropped the bag and fled westbound on Clarkson Avenue. He was arrested a short time later.
► An 18-year-old was arrested for illegally operating a motorbike on Flatbush Avenue near Westbury Court, police said. The teen was riding the Yamaha bike there around 3:00 p.m. on April 17, driving against traffic, going through multiple red lights and riding on the sidewalk. Upon his arrest, police found the bike had no license plate and its serial number had been altered.
► A suspect is being sought by police for robbing a bodega worker by knifepoint. The deli operator told police a man came into his store at 337 Utica Ave. around 2:00 p.m. on April 18 with a seven-inch knife and told his repeatedly “give me the money.” The worker gave the man between $80 and $100 from the register and the suspect fled the store on foot, westbound on Crown Street, police said.
► Police arrested two people for the possession of illegal firearms in separate searches in the neighborhood this week. The first occurred on Fenimore Street around 8:00 p.m. on April 15 when officers found a 19-year-old man with a loaded and defaced .380 semi-automatic Cobra handgun; he has been charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm and is being held on $25,000 bail, court records show. The second arrest took place on New York Avenue between Carroll and Crown streets around 5:45 p.m. on April 16 where police found a 29-year-old man to have a .45 Ruger handgun that had previously been reported stolen. He is also charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm and is being held on $10,000 bail, court records show.
