CROWN HEIGHTS — Two men beat and robbed a cab driver after taking a ride from outside Manhattan’s criminal court building to Crown Heights, police said.
The 36-year-old driver told police he picked up the pair outside 100 Centre St. in Manhattan, the location of the main criminal court in the borough, and brought them to 458 Eastern Parkway near Rogers Avenue around 2 p.m. on Aug. 1.
When they arrived at their destination, the two began arguing with the driver, then punched him in the head, pushed him to the ground and took $70 in cash from the car. The two suspects then fled on foot.
The driver was treated for minor injuries. No suspects have been identified and no arrests have yet been made, police said.
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.
► An 18-year-old man was robbed of his phone by two men who simulated they had a gun. The teen said the pair approached him in front of 1990 Bedford Ave. as he was coming back from a corner store at 2:15 a.m. on July 27. One of the men simulated a gun in the right pocket of his hoodie and said “We can do this the easy way or the hard way, drop everything on the floor.” The man then took the 18-year-old’s rose gold iPhone and both suspects fled on foot.
► A 45-year-old man was attacked by a man swinging a mallet, striking him in the head as he walked down the street in front of 899 Montgomery St. at 7:30 a.m. on July 27. Before the attack, the suspect asked the victim “do you remember me?” It’s unclear if the two men knew each other.
► A 54-year-old woman was arrested for driving a stolen car, carrying a crack pipe and having a suspended license after police pulled her over for failure to signal at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Fenimore Street around 12:30 a.m. on July 29. Upon arrest, police found the woman had had her license suspended on six different occasions.
► A woman told police she saw a man firing a handgun at another man at the corner of Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue around 12 p.m. on July 31. The woman said the shooter chased the target up the avenue toward the parkway, then got into a black sedan and fled eastbound on the Eastern Parkway service road. No one was injured in the shooting and no suspects have yet been identified.
