The man pictured above allegedly groped a 13-year-old girl in Soundview, police said.
Brooklyn
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A Russian man is being sought for a rape that took place last September, cops said.
The suspect, promising a job interview, lured the victim into a room at the Harbor Motor Inn on Shore Parkway in Gravesend, cops said.
Once inside, the 5-foot-8, 170-pound man raped her, authorities said.
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Three men made two armed-robbery attempts in Fort Greene in a matter of minutes, authorities said.
The first occurred on Greene Avenue near Cumberland Street at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19, when the robbers told a man they had a gun and demanded his valuables.
They used the same m.o. eight minutes later on Fort Greene Place.
In both cases the victims got away and the suspects fled empty-handed.
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A landlord was arrested in the assault of a tenant in East Flatbush, authorities said.
Doris Rodwell, 56, an NYC Transit engineer, was arguing with the tenant at about 10:05 p.m. Monday when the situation turned violent, cops said.
Rodwell was booked on an assault charge.
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Cops busted a man for allegedly choking his girlfriend in Williamsburg.
Brian George, 28, was arguing with the victim, 22, at about 4:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 in an apartment on Flushing Avenue after she called cops because he had told her he was feeling suicidal, police sources said.
He allegedly began choking her, but she fought back, scratching him on the right side of the face.
The emotionally disturbed man was taken into police custody and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing, assault, harassment and menacing, records show.
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Two crooks mugged a woman in Williamsburg, police sources said.
The victim, 24, was on Humboldt Street near Boerum Place when the men approached from behind and threw her to the ground at about 4:20 p.m. Saturday, the sources said.
The goons snatched her iPhone 4 and fled.
Queens
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Police arrested a man who pummeled his wife in Ridgewood, authorities said.
José Molina, 35, was arguing with his spouse when he went berserk and punched her several times in the head, shoulders and back at 11:45 p.m. on Feb. 15, court papers state.
Molina was charged with third-degree assault and second-degree harassment, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
The Bronx
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A man allegedly groped a 13-year-old girl in Soundview, police said.
He approached the victim while she was shopping with her family at the Associated supermarket on Westchester Avenue at 2 p.m. Saturday, grabbed her butt through her clothes and fled, cops said.
Police say the suspect is about 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He wore a red knit hat with a blue pompom, a black and red leather Pelle Pelle jacket, a red hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses.
Staten Island
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Cops busted a thief who scammed a fellow cab rider out of fare money early yesterday in St. George, authorities said.
Obiamaka Aduba, 23, asked a 55-year-old man if he wanted to share a cab with her at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal at 1:35 a.m., according to court documents.
When the man pulled cash from his pocket, the robber snatched the bills and fled in the cab, court records show.
Police stopped the cab a half-mile away at Richmond Terrace and Lafayette Avenue.
The perpetrator was positively identified and the cops recovered the $52 she had taken from the victim, court records show.
Aduba was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
She had previously been arrested on Jan. 26 for drug sales and possession, records show.
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An alleged cellphone snatcher was arrested at the Staten Island Mall in Heartland Village, authorities said.
A 20-year-old woman who works in the mall was near the escalator when she dropped her iPhone 4S last Thursday, court papers state.
Nickolas Elias, 18, snagged the device, ran up the escalator and fled, court records show.
The victim saw the thief the next day and identified him on surveillance video, court records show.
Elias was arrested and charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, records inindicate.