CROWN HEIGHTS — A 19-year-old man was arrested for using counterfeit bills after a Dunkin’ Donuts worker caught him using a fake $20 bill to pay for a coffee and doughnut this week, police said.
Around 6 p.m. on Jan. 26 a worker at the store, located at 40 Empire Blvd., called the police. They said they searched the teen and found $100 in fake $20 bills in his jacket pocket.
He was charged with forgery and petit larceny Jan. 27. Court records show he is also facing similar forgery charges in an open case stemming from an arrest in lower Manhattan this past summer.
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.
► A 68-year-old woman was arrested for hitting her 59-year-old boyfriend in the head with a metal pipe. The pair got in an argument around 11:10 p.m. on Jan. 25 at an apartment on Kingston Avenue and Empire Boulevard, police said, when the woman struck the man with the metal pipe, cutting his head. The man walked to the 71st Precinct stationhouse and was taken from there to Kings County Hospital for treatment. The woman was arrested a short time later.
► A 34-year-old woman was robbed of her passport, cash and debit card when a man ripped her purse from her hands on Maple Street on Jan. 27. The woman was walking between Brooklyn and New York avenues around 7:15 p.m. when an unknown man wearing a blue hoodie came up behind her and snatched her purse. When she didn’t immediately let go of the bag, the man hit her on the head and dragged her on the pavement, cutting her hands and knees. The man made off with the bag containing her Venezuelan passport, $200 in cash and debit card.
► An unknown woman stole a $1,500 wig and the mannequin head it was resting on inside a Flatbush Avenue hair salon. The suspect came into 737 Flatbush Ave. around 3:50 p.m. on Jan. 27, grabbed the mannequin head with the wig attached to it and ran out of the store. No suspect has been identified in the theft.
► A 31-year-old man was arrested Jan. 31 for three separate cellphone robberies on the Q train at Parkside Avenue, police said. Mark Maldonado has been charged in three robberies after his latest victim, a 25-year-old woman pointed him out to police after he stole her cellphone out of her hand as the doors opened on her Q train at the Parkside station. Police chased the man to a home on Rutland Road near Flatbush Avenue and arrested him.
The man has also been charged with two other cellphone robberies in the past week: one on Jan. 27 at 12:15 a.m. on a southbound Q train where he took a Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge from a 35-year-old woman as a Q train was waiting at the Parkside station and another Jan. 27 at 3:12 a.m. when he snatched an iPhone from a 28-year-old man just before the doors closed on a Q train at Parkside.
