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Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell.As of last night, the 3-year-old Gravesend boy who was on life support at Coney Island Hospital after being found in his home covered in feces, with a fractured skull, and lacerations to his kidney and liver
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A police cruiser parked outside the 61st precinct. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)This is a crime blotter of all the reported incidents within the 61st Precinct over the past week. We will work to do this every week, on either Monday or Tuesday. Night Club Slashing In the wee
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From the 60th Precinct’s Mannequin ChallengeSouthern Brooklyn’s Mannequin Challenge game is on point. The 60th Precinct — representing Coney Island and Brighton Beach — officially joined the ranks of Challenge royalty this weekend after posting their take on the viral phenomenon to Twitter. (For those not in the know: the
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Screenshot from video posted to Twitter/NYPD 60th Precinct. [https://twitter.com/NYPD60Pct/status/771737700806385664]Cops from the 60th Precinct, which covers Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Gravesend, took to the Coney Island boardwalk to record a video of them doing the 22 push-up challenge to raise awareness for veteran
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Screenshot from video posted to Twitter/NYPD 60th Precinct. [https://twitter.com/NYPD60Pct/status/771737700806385664]Cops from the 60th Precinct, which covers Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Gravesend, took to the Coney Island boardwalk to record a video of them doing the 22 push-up challenge to raise awareness for veteran
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Photo by Nick CuccurulloWhether these are the markings of murderous crime ring or just a couple of wannabes, our neighborhood is no stranger [/?s=surenos+13#.V7XKqpMrIU1] to gang graffiti. The inscription of the Califorrnia-based Sureños [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sure%C3%B1os] — also called SUR 13 — was seen
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https://youtu.be/WxHw7rbRV-Q Cops are looking for a man who stole a bike from a backyard shed in Sheepshead Bay last month. It was reported to the police that on Friday, July, 22, at 5am, the suspected hopped the fence into the backyard of a residential home located near
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Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for an unknown man who stabbed a stranger outside a bodega on 86th Street and West 7th Street, right near the N train station, early Friday morning. The suspect slashed a 38-year-old man’s right arm multiple times with a knife on Friday, July 29,
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Officer Craig Roth (left) receiving the Cop of the Month award from Captain Winston Faison. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Crime is down in almost every major felony in Sheepshead Bay’s 61st Precinct — putting the local station house on track to once again close out the year among the
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An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)A teenage bicyclist was killed Sunday night during a head-on collision with a drunk driver in Gerritsen Beach, police say. Sean Ryan, 17, was riding his bicycle north in the median on Gerritsen Avenue around 9pm
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(Photo provided by an anonymous reader)A neighbor is asking for help catching the tattooed thief who stole a bicycle from his friend’s porch last week. The NYPD confirmed the bicycle was snatched from a home on East 29th Street, between Avenue X and Avenue W, in the morning
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Source: mikey k/FlickrAn MTA bus driver was arrested Tuesday for slashing his wife in the neck during a domestic dispute at the their Gravesend home, authorities say. Raymond Soto, 60, allegedly lunged at his 33-year-old son-in-law with a knife around 1:30pm during an argument at their house near
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)An NYPD traffic agent was attacked on Avenue U while issuing a summons to a car parked in a no standing zone, police say. The assault occurred in the afternoon on April 10 at the corner of Ocean Avenue, according to authorities. The suspect allegedly
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Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)How should you respond to a suspicious phone call from someone claiming to represent the city’s Superstorm Sandy recovery program? A lieutenant from the Sheepshead Bay station house wanted to offer advice to residents after we reported scammers
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are asking the public for assistance locating a Sheepshead Bay man who was reported missing Thursday morning. Authorities say 63-year-old Nathan Rozenberg was last seen at his home near East 15th Street and Avenue T around 9am. He is described as five foot, eleven
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Graffiti found near Avenue X and East 2nd Street on June 16. (Photo by Bensonhurst Bean)Police recovered a pistol and spent shell casings early Friday morning after gunshots were reported in a quiet part of Gravesend defaced earlier this month by gang graffiti [/quiet-gravesend-block-defaced-mexican-gang-graffiti/#.V3aiSpMrLe0]. Officers from the local