Manhattan
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A burglar was busted as he brazenly tried to saw his way into an East Village bar after closing time, authorities said.
Michael Baxter, 53, was dressed as a construction worker as he lay on the ground outside the Bowery Bar at 2:10 a.m. Feb. 5 and tried to saw through the front door’s lock, court papers state.
Cops spotted him, and he was charged with attempted burglary and possession of burglar tools.
Brooklyn
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A hallway argument loud enough to get neighbors’ attention ended with a 37-year-old man shot dead in his Brownsville building yesterday afternoon, cops said.
The victim’s wife called 911 in a panic after he was shot four times outside their Lott Avenue home, police said.
He was declared dead on arrival at Brookdale Hospital.
There had been no arrest as of last night.
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Two men spitefully cut off the power to a Carroll Gardens gas station after a clerk refused to let them into an adjacent convenience store, authorities said.
Christopher Edwards, 26, and an unidentified accomplice sought to open the door to the shop on Hamilton Avenue at 2:10 a.m. Feb. 12, but the cashier continued to conduct business through a window, court documents state.
They pounded on the door but were again refused entrance, so they walked over to the outdoor fuse box, broke its glass and cut the power, the papers say.
Edwards was charged with criminal mischief and criminal tampering, police said.
His accomplice was still at large last night.
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A serial burglar with a soft spot for coin laundries was caught on surveillance video in Canarsie and later arrested, court documents state.
Tristan Murray, 20, took $250 from a change machine in a closed Laundromat on Flatlands Avenue near East 81st Street after prying open a window at 3:50 a.m. on New Year’s Day, the papers claim.
He returned the next day and did the same thing, walking away with chunks of change, the records say, then victimized another laundry about a block away.
He was charged with burglary, grand larceny, criminal mischief, petit larceny and trespass, authorities said.
Staten Island
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Put down that curling iron!
A steaming-mad Jennine Stuto, 35, threatened a 50-year-old co-worker during a hot dispute at the Cris-Thomas Hair Salon, on Johnson Street near Arthur Kill Road, at about 10 a.m. Feb. 16, according to court papers.
The co-worker, who was was not identified, was not injured, police said.
Stuto was taken into custody and charged with menacing, the documents reveal.
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A 19-year-old suspect is under arrest in connection with the stickup of a 15-year-old boy last week in Port Richmond, authorities said.
Tyrone McNeil allegedly snarled, “Gimme everything you got!” as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a handgun on Hylan Boulevard and Lincoln Avenue at about 11 a.m. Thursday.
He snatched the younger teen’s iPhone and wallet but soon found himself in handcuffs and charged with three counts of robbery, according to court documents.
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A man who admitted he was high on drugs ransacked a Port Richmond apartment, according to authorities.
Terrance Overton, 43, allegedly broke into the home on Taylor and Paris courts at about 5:30 p.m. Feb. 18 and hid in the bedroom closet — later giving the tenant the scare of his life when he opened the closet door.
Overton initially terrified the man and went room to room in a search for valuables, court documents say.
But the brave tenant got a hold of his nerves, then got a hold of Overton and held him for the police, the papers state.
“I was drinking and running,” Overton explained to the responding officers. “I was smoking PCP earlier in the day.”
He was charged with burglary, police said.
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A Randall Manor man allegedly claimed unemployment benefits while working, authorities said.
David Matthias, 59, collected more than $3,000 worth of benefits while claiming to be unemployed from May 11, 2009 to Sept. 27, 2009, court documents state.
He was busted Thursday on charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records, sources said.
Queens
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A man was in critical condition after being shot in the neck yesterday in Jackson Heights, cops said.
He was wounded in an 80th Street building near Northern Boulevard at about 7 a.m. and was at Elmhurst Hospital last night, police said.
A suspect was questioned but had not been charged as of last night, cops said, adding that the motive was not immediately clear.