76th Precinct
Carroll Gardens–
Cobble Hill–Red Hook
Flasher in the can
Police nabbed a 28-year-old suspected of masturbating on the G train on Oct. 9.
Responding to aroused calls from tipsters, cops manhandled the perp at around 10:30 am at the Smith-Ninth Street station after spotting him “naked with an erect penis out on public view,” according to police reports.
The suspect was charged with public lewdness.
Double booking
Cops nabbed a 34-year-old suspect twice in as many days for carrying a contraband knife.
Officer Alex Bakalis first locked up the suspect after spotting him carrying a gravity knife — a kind of retractable blade illegal in the city — near the corner of Douglass and Bond streets.
At about 4 am, police spotted the same perp driving erratically and failing to signal. When they pulled him over, the perp’s speech was slurred, his coordination compromised, and he couldn’t provide a license or registration.
Officers attempted to lock him up for drunk driving, but the suspect punched, kicked, and flails his arms in an attempt to resist arrest.
Only after cuffing him did they realize he was carrying another gravity knife.
Cops charged the suspect with a litany of charges including criminal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, and driving under the influence.
Not a lucky day
Cops locked up a 14-year-old suspected of heisting $3,000 of scratch off lottery tickets from a Court Street bodega on Oct. 9.
The perp snatched the Lotto tickets from Magic Fountain — a variety store between First and Second places — between 4:47 pm and 5:35 pm. But cops quickly cuffed a suspect.
Mean streets
Police cuffed a 36-year-old suspected of stealing a bike and striking its owner in the face on Oct. 10.
The thief gershed the two-wheeler — which was briefly left unattended on the sidewalk on Cheever Place between Kane and Degraw streets — at around 2:42 pm, while the 22-year-old victim entered his home to find a bike lock.
The victim returned outside and spotted the thief snatching his bike. When he tried to intervene, the crook put his hand on the victim’s face and pushed him away, causing “redness and pain,” according to a police source.
But cops canvassed the neighborhood and locked up a suspect.
Bond St blade
A bad guy with a blade slashed a 26-year-old after bumping into him on the sidewalk on Oct. 10.
The crook cut the victim in his stomach and left arm at around 2:10 am after the pair knocked into each other at the corner of Second and Bond streets.
Construx flux
Thieves ransacked at least two South Brooklyn construction sites this week, making off with thousands of dollars of costly copper cable and tools. Here are the shocking details:
• Perps stole $8,000 of copper wire from a job site near the corner of Columbia and Halleck streets between Oct. 9 and Oct. 12.
The burglars entered the site through the front gate, and snatched 750 feet of cable made from the increasingly precious metal.
• Crooks pulled down a plywood fence to get into a Fourth Street construction site during the same three-day period.
Once inside the site, which is between Smith and Hoyt streets, thieves snatched a concrete saw, grinder, impact driver, screw gun, and other tools.
Bag snagged
A thief snatched an unattended purse from a chair in front of a Third Place residence on Oct. 12.
The perp grabbed the Coach bag — which contained IDs, reading glasses, a Pentax digital camera and $500 — at around 3:15 pm, when the victim stepped into her home and left her bag outside.
— Ben Muessig