CROWN HEIGHTS — A 54-year-old delivery man took the gun from a man who tried to rob his truck on Bedford Avenue this week, police said.
The man was unloading his food truck outside 1619 Bedford Ave. at about 4:15 a.m. on Monday, police said, when a male suspect approached him with a 9mm Ruger handgun and said, “Give it up, motherf---er.”
The worker refused to give the would-be robber anything and the two men got into a scuffle. During the fight, the delivery man was able to yank the gun away from the suspect, who then fled in a black SUV, police said.
No one was injured during the altercation and police recovered the weapon and its ammunition. No arrest has been made in the attempted robbery and the suspect has not been identified.
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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► An unknown person shot a man walking on Hawthorne Street between Rogers and Nostrand avenues at 1 a.m. on Aug. 4. The victim told police he heard gunshots on the block, then felt pain and took himself to Kings County Hospital where he was treated for gunshots to his right arm and back. The driver’s side door of a parked car on the block was also damaged in the shooting, police said.
► A shooting on Fenimore Street near Troy Avenue sent a bullet through the living room of an apartment on Aug. 4 and left multiple spent shell casings in the street, but left no one injured, police said. A report from witnesses and ShotSpotter said the shooting happened around 3 a.m. on the side street.
► A 44-year-old man was arrested for possession of heroin after police stopped him on a white motorized bike he had been riding on the sidewalk on Schenectady Avenue near President Street around 2:15 a.m. on Aug. 7. Police stopped him for the traffic violation and, upon his arrest, found he was carrying 15 baggies filled with the drug.
► A 33-year-old man was arrested for trying to steal a bag of chips from a bodega, then hurling a glass bottle at the store’s owner when the man tried to stop the would-be thief. Police said the altercation happened around 10:40 p.m. inside 309 Utica Ave. on Aug. 7. No one was injured in the attempted robbery.
► A 24-year-old woman was threatened and sprayed with a fire extinguisher on Aug. 8 by a group of four men who robbed her for $40. The woman was walking on Rogers Avenue and Carroll Street on her way to the subway when the group approached her and threatened her with the extinguisher. After they took $40 in cash from her, one of the male suspects sprayed her with the extinguisher and all four fled on foot north on Rogers Avenue.
► A 35-year-old man caught a burglar red-handed in his Midwood Street apartment. The man was returning to his unit around 1 p.m. on Aug. 8 when he found the male suspect inside stealing a backpack, old cellphones and about $10 in coins. When the man approached the suspect, he fled out a bathroom window, which had been unlocked when the victim left the apartment, police said.
► The door of a Burger King at 1727 Bedford Ave. was damaged in a shooting outside the restaurant at approximately 8:30 p.m. on Aug. 8, police said. Witnesses saw a man fire approximately four rounds at another unknown man, hitting the glass panel of the Burger King once. The suspect and shooting target both fled on foot.
