Manhattan
A 28-year-old woman walking her dog after midnight in Kips Bay was robbed at gunpoint and sexually assaulted, law-enforcement sources said.
She and her pooch were headed west on East 27th Street near Third Avenue at about 1:50 a.m. Saturday when a man confronted her, the sources said.
He reached into her coat pockets and demanded her cellphone, then reached up her shirt to grope her, she told cops.
When he followed that by sticking his hand down her pantyhose, she began screaming and he fled empty-handed, she said.
The thug was described as 5-foot-11 and wearing a black hooded jacket.
Brooklyn
She allegedly turned into a socks maniac!
A woman caught shoplifting a package of socks from a Flatbush shop went berserk — slashing an employee’s face with a boxcutter and taking a bite out of the store manager’s arm, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Wanda Scott, 47, allegedly decided to try to sock the security guards rather than wait for the police to arrive at VIM Sneakers and Jeans on Flatbush Avenue on April 1.
She wound up handcuffed and charged with assault, robbery and menacing, the court papers say.
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A man stole a package from a Federal Express worker in Gravesend, found the customer’s credit card in it and went on a $13,000 shopping spree, authorities said.
Jared Walrond, 29, pinned the deliveryman against a wall on East Fourth Street near Avenue V on March 19 and took off with the package, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
He wasted little time, using the stolen credit card to purchase items at two Target branches in Nassau County that same day, the court documents state.
He succeeded in making a purchase for about $3,000, but his attempts to make two separate $1,000 purchases were declined at one of the stores, the complaint says.
Undeterred, Walrond went to the other Target and made two purchases totaling $10,000, the complaint claims.
He was arrested April 1 and slapped with a slew of charges, including robbery, criminal possession of stolen property and grand larceny, the court papers say.
Queens
Cops are looking for a gang of thieves (one of whom is pictured) in connection with a string of robberies in Rochdale and Jamaica hotels, authorities said.
The crooks on Friday stormed into the Howard Johnson’s on Rockaway Boulevard, pointed a gun at the front-desk clerk and fled with an undetermined amount of cash, cops said.
Two of the suspects are believed to have committed three earlier hotel robberies — including knocking off the same Howard Johnson’s on Feb. 4, police said.
In that stickup, the men allegedly aimed a gun at the clerk, demanded cash and made off with an unknown sum.
Back on Dec. 29, two of the suspects allegedly walked into the Quality Inn on 94th Avenue and left with cash and an iPad from the front desk.
And on Feb. 5, the same two pals entered the La Quinta Inn on Van Wyck Boulevard in South Ozone Park, terrified the front-desk clerk with a gun and again made off with an unknown amount of money.
Investigators noted that no one was injured in any of the robberies.
Staten Island
An ex-con swiped an ID car, a credit card and a New York State Benefits card through an open car window in New Springville, authorities said.
David McDonald, 35, grabbed the items from the passenger seat of a Nissan parked in a driveway on Vassar Loop at about 9 p.m. April 1, a Criminal Court complaint says.
The cards’ owner reported the theft, and officers soon caught up with McDonald near the scene of the crime, investigators said.
The suspect was questioned and frisked — and was found to be still carrying the stolen goods, police said.
It also turned out that he was on parole from state prison after having served time for criminal possession of stolen property, according to the state Department of Correction.