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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanPolice believe they may have caught the perp responsible for a spate of car thefts in the neighborhood this week. There were at least eight car-related crimes on Cropsey Avenue and Shore Parkway near Bay 11th Street between February 20 and February 27, according to cops. NYPD
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Source: mikey k/flickrAn 81-year-old woman in Coney Island was the victim of a terrifying home invasion Sunday after opening up her home to a burglar posing as a Con Edison employee, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-81-home-invaded-woman-posing-coned-worker-article-1.2548430] . The octogenarian, who only speaks Russian,
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Source: mikey k/flickrAn 81-year-old woman in Coney Island was the victim of a terrifying home invasion Sunday after opening up her home to a burglar posing as a Con Edison employee, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-81-home-invaded-woman-posing-coned-worker-article-1.2548430] . The octogenarian, who only speaks Russian,
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Salvatore Prestianni. (Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who went missing from his Coney Island home on Monday. Salvatore Prestianni was last seen around 2am at his home on Surf Avenue near West 23rd Street, according to authorities. He is described as a
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Salvatore Prestianni. (Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who went missing from his Coney Island home on Monday. Salvatore Prestianni was last seen around 2am at his home on Surf Avenue near West 23rd Street, according to authorities. He is described as a
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)He wanted a $3 beer. Now he has a $2,500 bounty on his head. Cops are searching for man who allegedly shoved a grocery clerk into a cooler when the employee tried to block him from stealing a $3 bottle of bud light. Police
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Photo via NYPDPolice are searching for a 75-year-old woman who went missing from her home at 555 10th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues). Cops say Lidiya F. Piddubna was last seen inside her home at approximately 6:00pm on Sunday, February 28. Piddubna suffers from dementia, and may be
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Transit cops involved in the arrest of 33-year-old Euzebelin Abellard. (Photo: NYPD News [http://nypdnews.com/2016/02/smart-cops-smartphones-proactive-police-work-lead-to-arrest-of-murder-suspect/] )A murder suspect who evaded capture for three months was busted Thursday when officers spotted him spitting on the platform at the Coney Island subway station, the Daily New reports [http:
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Police have arrested a homeless man for allegedly slashing a man across the face with a boxcutter on the Classon Avenue G train Queens-bound platform at around 2:50am this morning (Monday, February 29). According to PIX11 [http://pix11.com/2016/02/29/homeless-man-slashes-subway-commuter-who-woke-him-up-in-brooklyn-nypd/] , police say that after being roused
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/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/636-16-CIS-78-PCT-02-28-16-video.mp4 Video via NYPD Police have released a video of the suspect’s vehicle involved in an apparent hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian. The incident took place near the intersection of 5th Avenue and 9th Street at approximately 5:00am on Sunday, February 28, according
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The intersection of 5th Avenue and 9th Street, hours after a pedestrian was struck and killed on Sunday, February 28. (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)Updated 9:46pm: A previous version of this story stated the victim was riding a bicycle. Police say that they released this information erroneously, and
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Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street intersection, and get other details about