By Tom Tracy
Beaten in mosque A 47-year-old man suffered a fractured skull last week during a brutal hammer attack inside the Brooklyn Islamic Center, 2015 64th Street. Officials said that they have apprehended the man allegedly responsible for the attack, which left the victim hospitalized and unable to speak, according to prosecutors. Police alleged that Sammy Mohassib, 37, jumped his victim inside the house of worship at 12:40 p.m. on February 10, striking him with a hammer multiple times. It was unclear what sparked the attack as this paper went to press. Officials said that Mohassib was taken into custody just after the brawl and was charged with three counts of assault, menacing, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon. His victim was rushed to an area hospital where he was listed in stable condition with a severe head injury. Cruel cabbie Investigators have linked an unlicensed Gravesend cabbie to a series of sexual assaults in Manhattan where two women were accosted in the back of a 2001 black Lincoln Town Car, police said this week. Officials said that the victims’ attention to detail helped detectives apprehend 28-year-old Torkieh Sadagheh without incident just hours after the attacks. Investigators charged that Sadagheh, a resident of Lake Street near Avenue T, drove around Manhattan in his Lincoln Town Car just after 4 a.m. on February 17, looking for victims to flag him down. He allegedly picked up his first victim at the corner of West 28th Street and 10th Avenue at 4:20 a.m., where, after driving the woman uptown for a brief time, he stopped the car and attempted to rape her. The woman managed to fight him off and escape, but not before she committed Sadagheh’s license plate to memory, officials said. Police charge that just a few minutes after the first attack, Sadagheh allegedly picked up another young woman, this time at the corner of West 28th Street and 10th Avenue. As they neared the woman’s home, Sadagheh again stopped the car, jumped into the back and forced himself on his victim, police alleged. He then dropped the woman off at her home and drove away, police alleged. The woman took herself to Bellevue Hospital for treatment. After tracking the license plate number to Sadagheh, cops charged the Lake Street resident with rape and attempted rape. Carjacker sought Police are looking for the knife-wielding thug who robbed a woman of her 1996 Honda as she passed the corner of Avenue Y and Nostrand Avenue Saturday. The victim, 32, said that she was idling at the corner at 4:15 p.m. that afternoon when a 25-year-old black male leapt into the passenger side seat. The thief pulled a knife and told the woman to drive down the street. When she reached the next corner, the thief ordered her to abandon the car and drove with it, officials said. Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to call the 61st Precinct at (718) 627-6611. All calls will be kept confidential. Narrowing their focus Detectives are investigating the possibility that the 21-year-old Avenue P man left with a punctured lung following a vicious stabbing on January 30 was attacked at the corner of McDonald Avenue and Village Road South. Police were told that, following an interview with detectives, the victim claimed that he had been stabbed during an argument at the Gravesend corner. On the night of the attack, the victim was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center suffering from three stab wounds to the back, cuts to his head, neck and shoulder and a punctured lung. But he couldn’t immediately remember just where he was attacked, police said. Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this attack to call the 61st Precinct at (718) 627-6611. All calls will be kept confidential. Two nabbed Cops recently apprehended two men for a robbery inside a 68th Street building near 20th Avenue. Officials said that the two suspects, 23-year-old Edwin Lopez and a 22-year-old man who refused to give police his name, were apprehended for allegedly jumping a man inside the lobby at 9:10 p.m. on February 10. The victim alleged that the suspects pulled a knife on him as they demanded his money. They then punched and kicked him, leaving him with bruises to his eye, cheek, upper lip and scratches to his legs, police alleged. Responding officers rounded up and arrested the two suspects without incident. Both were charged with robbery. Robbed of cell A 12-year-old boy was left without anyone to call after a robbery at the corner of Bath Avenue and Bay Parkway, officials said. The victim came into the 62nd Precinct on the night of February 7 and said that an unidentified male had grabbed his cell phone and ran off with it while he waited at the corner. Cops were still looking for the thief as this paper went to press. Bridge damage A 21-year-old Bath Beach man was taken to the hospital last week following an attack that left him with a laceration across the bridge of his nose. The victim said that he was inside his apartment on Bay 22nd Street at 4:30 a.m. on February 10 when he began arguing with his assailant, who is described only as a Hispanic male. During the heated exchange, the suspect pulled a knife and lashed out at the victim, cutting his face, officials said.
