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Brooklyn's Mom-and-Pop Oxy Ring; Dining With Dogs; A Manspreading Murder Suspect: The Week in Review!
Here are last week's top Patch stories from across Brooklyn.

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Here are last week’s top Patch stories from across Brooklyn, in case you missed them!
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Police are hunting for a red or burgundy VW Passat with passenger-side mirror damage.
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The injured passenger was hit by flying glass, police say.
Gregory White, 43, was taken into custody for violating local law, police say — then arrested for murder.
Animal rescuers say they found him tied up inside the Greene Avenue home.
WATCH: Robbers Haul Entire ATM Machine From Brooklyn Apartment Building
Nothing to see here.
Brooklyn Mom-and-Pop Pharmacy Ran ‘Massive’ Oxycodone Ring: DEA
Chopin Chemists was behind “one of the largest illegal diversions of oxycodone pills ever uncovered in a New York State pharmacy,” feds say.
Brooklyn Woman to Local 20-Somethings: I’ll Be Your Mom for an Hourly Fee
”Why don’t we have a cup of tea in my garden and we’ll talk about it?”
Brooklyn Parents: Turn Sex Hotel Into Schoolhouse
Amid an overcrowding epidemic sweeping the district.
Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist, needs your Lego donations after Big Lego refused to fill his order.
Dogs Now Allowed in NYC’s Outdoor Dining Areas
However, city health officials will do everything in their power to limit the new state law.
Let’s Check in With Brooklyn’s Epic Summer Sinkhole
Oh, damn. Looking good.
Brooklyn 7-Year-Old on Life Support After Reportedly Choking on School Lunch
Noelia-Lisa Echavarria is a first grader at PS 250 in Williamsburg.
Walgreens Will Soon Control 90 Percent of Brooklyn’s Chain Drug Stores: Report
Leaving CVS as its only (minor) competitor.
The NYC electronics giant claims it has nothing to hide. So why is it hiding?
Brooklyn Dad: I Was Stabbed for Speaking Arabic
Said Othman was reportedly attacked while he and his wife walked their 8-year-old son home from school in Sunset Park.
Armani Hankins, 16, Killed in Downtown Brooklyn Shooting: UPDATE
A fight broke out Monday night outside the downtown Applebee’s.
Dead Woman’s Ashes Reportedly Stolen From Brooklyn Apartment Building
”I want my mother to be at peace,” her daughter says.
Barclays Center Theater Now Named ‘Tidal Theater’
Jay-Z continues staking his claim in Brand Brooklyn.
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