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CRIME BLOTTER: Two Men Tied Up With Cables and Robbed in Crown Heights

 Two men were tied up with electrical cables and robbed in Crown Heights this week, police said.
Two men were tied up with electrical cables and robbed in Crown Heights this week, police said.
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CROWN HEIGHTS — Police are looking for two suspects who held two men at gunpoint, tied them up with electrical cables and then robbed them in an Eastern Parkway apartment building.

The robbery happened around 7:40 p.m. at 1174 Eastern Parkway on May 13, police said. The suspects walked into an apartment, pointed a gun at the two victims, demanded money, then tied them up with the cables and ransacked the place.

The pair made off with $120 in cash, a Samsung phone, two Apple laptops, an Apple iPad and the victims’ identification.

One of the victims was able to untie himself and call 911, police said.

No suspects have been identified in the robbery.

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

The map above depicts only those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York within the date range indicated, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from this precinct, click here.

► A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the butt and right ear after he tried to break up a fight at a nightclub in the neighborhood. The man was at the Buzz Club at 103 Empire Blvd. around 3 a.m. on May 15 when he attempted to break up an altercation between patrons of the nightclub, police said. During the fight, someone hit the man with a chair and another stabbed him. He was treated at a local hospital.

► A 47-year-old man with an open warrant was arrested for possession of crack after police stopped him for drinking from an open container of Coors opposite 75 Ocean Ave. around 12:30 a.m. on May 15. After he was arrested, police said officers found he had crack and a crack pipe in his pockets and that he was wanted for a felony out-of-state.

► A 38-year-old man was robbed of his wallet and cellphone by two men who ran up behind him and snatched his property as he was walking to grab food. Police said the robbery happened around 10 p.m. on May 14 at the corner of Rogers and Lefferts avenues. The suspects snatched the man’s cellphone and went through his front pockets and grabbed his wallet. The men fled on foot.

► Someone smashed the window of a car parked on Rogers Avenue and Crown Street on May 11. The 49-year-old owner said she parked the car there around 10:30 p.m., returning a short time later to find the back window broken. Nothing inside the car was stolen. The broken window caused $250 in damage, police said.

► About $3,800 in cash was taken from a safe inside a storage facility on East New York Avenue, police said. A 45-year-old woman working there reported the break-in around 5 p.m. on May 11 and said the safe was taken from inside the building with no signs of forced entry.