CROWN HEIGHTS — A 14-year-old girl was arrested for hitting a 15-year-old boy in the head with a metal pole after the boy said he wasn’t in a gang, police said.
The boy was hanging out on the corner of Classon Avenue and President Street at 5:40 p.m. on April 24 when the girl and three others came up to him and asked if he was in a gang called “GDK.”
He told them no. Some time later, the girl came back and hit the boy in the head with a metal stick-like object, causing a small cut, police said.
The girl was arrested a short time later when the boy identified her on a nearby block while canvassing the area with police. She will be charged with assault as a minor.
Other notable crimes in this week’s blotter from the 71st Precinct in Crown Heights, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and East Flatbush include:
► A 30-year-old man was arrested for taking all the menus in a Chinese restaurant, then slamming the hand of a worker in the eatery’s door as the man tried to stop him. The incident took place 719 Flatbush Ave. at 10:20 p.m. on April 20. The suspect threatened the employee and then slammed the front door on the left-hand fingers of the 35-year-old worker. He has been charged with harassment, menacing and misdemeanor assault, court records show.
► A 24-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint for her iPhone and belt on a Maple Street playground. The woman was walking through the small park between Troy and Schenectady avenues at 12:40 a.m. when two unknown male suspects wearing white hoodies approached her and threatened her with a firearm, then hit her in the face with the gun. They took the woman’s phone and belt and fled on foot.
► A Flatbush Avenue smoothie shop was burglarized April 24. A worker came in at 8:30 a.m. to open the shop at 560 Flatbush Ave. when she found the cash register wire had been cut and an unknown amount of cash had been taken. A former employee has been identified as a possible suspect and the investigation is ongoing.
► A 57-year-old was attacked at a bus stop by a stranger who took her iPhone. The woman was standing at a bus stop on Utica Avenue near Union Street at 3:40 p.m. on April 20 when an unknown man came up to her, pushed her to the ground and took her phone. The suspect then fled north toward Eastern Parkway. The woman had bruises on her left hand but was otherwise unharmed. There has been no arrest.
The above list only describes those blotter items compiled by DNAinfo New York between April 19 and 25, not all crimes that took place in a given precinct. To see all previous crime blotters from this precinct, click here.
