Crime & Safety

Crook Punches Woman and Snatches iPhone on 4th Ave

Reports from the 78th Precinct in Park Slope.

A violent mugger punched a woman in the head and stole her iPhone on Warren Street and Fourth Avenue April 30, police said.

According to the police report, the 28-year-old victim told police that she was walking along Warren Street when she approached the southwest corner of Fourth Avenue at 8:20 a.m. when a black man ran up from behind, punched her in the back of the head. The crook, described as a 20-year-old black man standing 5-foot-10, weighing 160 lbs. with a shaved head, then snatched her iPhone out of her hands and ran away.

The victim, who lives close by the scene on Fourth Avenue, told police that she has seen the crook multiple times in the neighborhood before the incident.


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