DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Two women attacked a Downtown Brooklyn smoke shop employee after he refused to sell them rolling papers without showing ID, police and the worker said.
The women, who police described as in their 20s, were in Mikey’s Smoke Shop at 60 Schermerhorn St. around 12:15 p.m. on Aug. 2 when the incident happened, the NYPD said.
The employee who was attacked, 69-year-old Teekaram Guptar, said the women tried to buy the papers but wouldn’t hand over their IDs when he asked.
The suspects then tried to grab the papers from behind the counter, but Guptar stopped them by standing in their way, he said in a phone conversation.
The women got angry and attacked him, scratching the worker in the face and hitting him with a ball, he recounted.
Guptar said he wasn’t badly hurt, but that he didn’t know what the women were capable of.
“I wasn’t scared, but I didn’t know what they wanted to do,” he said.
He said the women eventually left the shop and headed toward Court Street.
No arrests have been made.
Other notable crimes in the Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene area include:
► A 57-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint as he was walking down Washington Avenue at Atlantic Avenue at 1:40 p.m. on July 20, police said. The suspect told the man that if he didn’t give him $80 he would kill him, so the man handed over $250 because he feared for his safety, police said.
► A man and a woman who demanded a 28-year-old woman’s cellphone snatched her Steve Madden glasses off her face after she refused to hand over the device while waiting at the platform for the B/Q train at the Atlantic Avenue station around 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 4, police said.
► Two women stole a pair of Nike socks, a True Religion shirt, and a water bottle worth a total of $60 from at woman at Nordstrom Rack at 505 Fulton St. at 5 p.m. on Aug. 5, police said. During a struggle with two other women who tried to stop the thieves, one of the suspects punched one in the face and the other suspect kicked the second in the groin. A person answering the phone at Nordstrom declined to comment.
