CROWN HEIGHTS — Two mask-wearing men lured a delivery man to a Union Street apartment building before assaulting and robbing him, according to the NYPD.
The 28-year-old Chinese food delivery man received three phone calls about a food order to be delivered to 1655 Union St. on Dec. 8, police said.
When the man arrived with the order at 8:50 p.m., the residents in the apartment where he was told to go said they had not ordered food.
As the delivery man was leaving the location, two men wearing black masks and clothes approached him in the building’s staircase, punched him in the face and stole the food, $200 in cash and a set of keys.
The pair of suspects fled in a beige vehicle parked in front of the building and traveled east on Union Street.
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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► A 17-year-old girl was assaulted and robbed by three male suspects who attacked her as she walked along Utica Avenue and Empire Boulevard. The teen was walking at the corner around 3:15 p.m. on Dec. 7 when the suspects approached her from behind, punched her in the head, pushed her to the ground and stole her iPhone, wallet, cash and student MetroCard worth $952 in total. The three suspects fled west on Empire Boulevard.
► A 30-year-old woman was arrested for hitting a police officer in the head with a bottle as police tried to take her into custody Dec. 10 after she knocked over a display at a deli. The woman had refused to leave the deli at 1040 Nostrand Ave. at 4:30 a.m., then knocked over a counter display. When officers arrived to place her under arrest, she struck a member of the NYPD with a glass bottle, cutting the officer’s head.
► A 24-year-old man was arrested for reckless endangerment and making a false police report after he walked into Kings County Hospital with two gunshot wounds in his right leg and told police he had been shot by random gunfire in front of 1651 Carroll St. as he approached the building at 2 p.m. on Dec. 10. Upon investigation, police determined his injuries were the result of self-inflicted gunshots.
► A 27-year-old man was robbed at knifepoint for a pair of Air Jordan Retro 9 sneakers on Dec. 13. Police said the man met the suspect at Washington Avenue and Crown Street at 2:30 p.m. to sell him the pair of Nike shoes worth $140. Soon after they met, the suspect tried to snatch the box out of the victim’s hand and the pair started fighting. The suspect then pulled out a knife and threatened the seller, then fled into 15 Crown St. empty-handed. The victim was not injured in the incident.
