The suspect (above) followed the 13-year-old boy to the front of a building on Fox Street near East 156th Street at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 20, grabbed the device and ran, police said.
The suspects (above) flashed a fake police badge as they barged into the home on Sheldon Avenue near McGwyer Avenue at 5:35 p.m. Jan. 6 and pulled a black gun on the 43-year-old woman, police sources said.
Brooklyn
* Three bandits burglarized a Bushwick home, police said.
The suspects here, broke into the apartment on Melrose Street near Evergreen Avenue shortly before 8 p.m. Jan. 18 and snatched electronics and cash, cops said.
The Bronx
* A thief who stole a youngster’s cellphone in Hunts Point was captured on surveillance video, cops said.
The suspect followed the 13-year-old boy to the front of a building on Fox Street near East 156th Street at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 20, grabbed the device and ran, police said.
Manhattan
* Cops busted three people for shoplifting pricey coats from Bloomingdale’s, authorities said.
Jacqueline Jackson, 16, Chanel Reese, 19, and Donnell McCullum, 29, were spotted by a guard going into a dressing room at the Midtown store at 8:20 p.m. Friday, according to court documents.
The guard saw two more people enter with merchandise and leave empty-handed, court papers state.
Jackson, Reese and McCullum then left the fitting room carrying a bag filled with stolen coats, the records say.
Reese was carrying a coat worth about $1,500, while both McCullum and Jackson had three coats each, all totaling $6,400, the court papers say.
They were charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. Jackson and McCullum are being held in lieu of $7,500 bail, Reese in lieu of $2,500.
* A brazen bandit tried to steal an ATM machine from an East Village bodega, authorities said.
A woman called 911 when she saw a truck outside the store on Avenue A at St. Marks Place at 4:25 a.m. last Wednesday. The driver was trying to pull the ATM out of the outer wall with a chain, police sources said.
Realizing the jig was up, the driver fled and left the damaged ATM outside the store, the sources said.
* Detectives are eyeing whether a male lover helped rob and fatally beat a partially blind HIV victim found dead in his Harlem apartment.
The body of Charles Romo, 48, was discovered in a kneeling position in the bedroom of his Hamilton Place apartment, bound at the legs by a belt, his mouth gagged and his head bloodied and wrapped in tape at 10:20 a.m. Monday. He was wearing only his underwear.
Surveillance video shows two men leaving the building with a plastic bag after Romo’s murder, and cops said they believe the men may be his killers.
At least could have been his lover, sources said.
Cops found the victim’s Seeing Eye dog, Ramses, guarding the body and took him to the ASPCA.
The maid, who found Romo’s body, told police there were often strange men at the home.
Staten Island
* A creep asked a woman for money on a train in Richmond Valley and then shoved her around to try to get it, authorities said.
John Miller, 37, allegedly approached the victim at 1:30 p.m. Saturday on the Staten Island Railway near Amboy Road and Richmond Valley Road, begged her for cash and then pushed her against the wall of the train, court papers state.
An auxiliary cop spotted Miller and told him to release the victim, but he allegedly shoved her to the ground instead.
When the cop tried to cuff him, Miller allegedly flailed his arms and pushed the officer.
He was eventually subdued and charged with harassment, resisting arrest and obstructing government administration, according to a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
* Two men posing as cops broke into a Woodrow home and robbed a woman at gunpoint, police said.
The suspects flashed a fake police badge as they barged into the home on Sheldon Avenue near McGwyer Avenue at 5:35 p.m. Jan. 6 and pulled a black gun on the 43-year-old woman, police sources said.
They made off with an iPhone, several sports jerseys, a Sensation smartphone and jewelry, the sources said.
One suspect had a chipped front tooth and wore a black baseball hat, black gloves and a jacket.
The second had a beard and wore dark clothing and black boots.