Police Blotter: Five Men Beat Up and Mug Victim Outside Diner on Fifth Ave

The following information was supplied by the 78th Precinct of the NYPD. It does not indicate a conviction.

A Beating and a Mugging

Five crooks beat up a man in front of a diner on Fifth Avenue and stole his credit card, driver’s license, college ID and MetroCard on April 1.

The 27-year-old victim told police that he left Daisy’s Diner, between Ninth and 10th streets, to go home at around 5:14 a.m. and asked two men standing on the sidewalk for a cigarette. When the two men, described as two 19 or 20-year-old black Hispanic men standing about 5-foot-10 and weighing 140 lbs., turned to face the victim and started punching him in the face. The victim, who admitted to cops that he was intoxicated on alcohol, tried to defend himself by blocking punches and covering his face.  However, three other men who were friends with the attackers ran out of the diner and jumped in the fight and started punching the victim.

The first attacker said, “Keep going motherfuckers” then went through the victim’s pants pockets and stole his credit card, which has a $3,600 credit limit, a monthly MetroCard worth $115, driver’s license and Brooklyn College ID. Then the first two men jumped into a black Mercedes Benz with New York plates and drove away southbound on Fifth Avenue. The three other crooks also jumped into a black sedan and fled the scene. 

The Co-Worker Crook

A not-so-slick employee of a Flatbush Avenue crepe joint stole a co-worker’s wallet and got away with over $200 in cash on March 31.

The 24-year-old victim and employee of Brooklyn Crepe & Juice, between St. Marks Ave and Prospect Place, told police that he put his wallet inside his jacket and hung it up inside the staff room and started working. At around 9 p.m. the victim’s co-worker, a 26-year-old black man about 6-foot-1, weighing around 170 lbs., and with long dreadlocks, came to work, entered the staff room and said he was going to the store, but never returned. About half an hour later, the victim received an e-mail from his bank stating that his account had been over-drafted by $55. When he went to check his wallet, it was gone. The co-worker-turned-crook got away with $254 in cash, two MetroCards worth $62, driver’s license, NYS food handlers license, EBT card, health insurance card, and a debit and credit card.