PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — An 18-year-old was robbed at gunpoint while stopped in a car at a red light, police said.
The teen was driving northbound on Rogers Avenue near Hawthorne Street around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday when an unknown man came up to the passenger side of his BMW, tapped on the window with a handgun and told the victim to open the car’s door.
The suspect then got into the vehicle and demanded the 18-year-old’s cellphone, wallet, hat and jewelry. The teen gave him his iPhone, wallet, two diamond stud earrings and an “NBA Finals” baseball hat, worth about $1,300 in total.
The suspect then fled southbound on Rogers Avenue on foot. No suspects have been identified and no arrests have yet been made in the robbery, 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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► Three Crown Heights businesses were robbed at gunpoint by crews that hit the stores — a laundromat, smoke shop and West Indian restaurant — within three days this week on Rogers Avenue, President Street and Utica Avenue. The suspects took cash and a laptop. Police believe the robberies are linked.
► A 17-year-old boy was arrested for several traffic violations and marijuana possession after police observed him riding a blue Yamaha dirt bike through two red lights and pulling a U-turn on the sidewalk in front of 712 Crown St. on July 8. Upon his arrest, the teen was found to be carrying a bag of marijuana.
► A 27-year-old man reported that he was in the lobby of 2111 Beekman Place when two men approached him, punched him in the face and kicked him to the floor. The pair then removed $600 in cash from his pocket and ran out of the building. The victim said he did not know either of the two suspects.
► A 55-year-old man was arrested for stealing three tubes of toothpaste from a Rite Aid pharmacy, then attacking a security guard who tried to stop him from leaving with the stolen items. The security guard saw the man put the toothpaste in his pants around 2:30 a.m. on July 10, then try to leave the store without paying. When the guard stopped the 55-year-old, he began fighting him and bit his left arm. Officers arrested the man soon afterwards.
