Manhattan
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A shoplifter with designer taste was busted the moment she walked out of Bergdorf Goodman with $16,000 worth of stolen goods, authorities said.
Anne Prager, 54, was seen stuffing a coat and a scarf into a bag Friday at the store on Fifth Avenue at West 57th Street, according to court documents.
Police recovered the coat, the scarf and two other scarves, according to court records.
Prager was arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, the records show.
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A pickpocket was caught on surveillance video lifting a wallet in an Upper East Side religious center, authorities said.
Anass Abubakari, 36, entered the Islamic Cultural Center of New York on Third Avenue at East 96th Street Nov. 27 and took the wallet from a coat hung on a rack, court papers say.
He was arrested and charged with burglary and grand larceny the day after Christmas, according to the court documents.
He was still being held last night in the Brooklyn Detention Complex in lieu of $5,000 bail, the records show.
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Police are looking for a bank-robber wannabe who yesterday failed miserably at holding up an East Harlem bank, police said.
The suspect entered the Apple branch on East 125th Street near Lexington Avenue just before 1 p.m.and demanded money from a teller, cops said.
But the teller just walked away from the counter, leaving the perp to make a hasty and chagrined exit, investigators said.
Queens
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A man went berserk and stabbed two others in a Sunnyside bar early yesterday, according to arresting officers who nailed the alleged hothead.
Ali Gashi, 48, got into a fight with the victims in Paddy Duggan’s Pub, on Greenpoint Avenue near Queens Boulevard, at 3:45 a.m., cops said.
He allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed a 23-year-old in the neck and arm and a 48-year-old in the elbow.
The victims were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Elmhurst Hospital, police said.
Gashi was arrested and charged with assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
They added that it was not immediately known what sparked the argument.
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An elderly man found dead of a gunshot wound to the headyesterday apparently committed suicide, authorities said.
The body of the man, believed to have been in his 70s, was found at about 8:20 a.m. in a car parkedon Main Street and 77th Road in Hillcrest, police said.
They added that no criminality was suspected.
Staten Island
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That’ll teach him to help.
A man trying to stop a buddy high on drugs from cutting himself in a Graniteville town house paid a painful price for his compassion, authorities said.
Samuel Adelosa, 18, slashed his friend’s right forearm during a drug-induced flip-out on Wolkoff Lane at 3:20 a.m. Thursday, cops said.
Adelosa was arrested and charged with assault and possession of a deadly weapon, according to court records.
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He, too, should have known better.
A Westerleigh resident caught with a stolen iPad 3 admitted to knowing that the tablet had been illegally obtained, authorities said.
“I knew it was hot,” Brent Lucas, 32, confessed after being arrested Thursday, court records state.
He had registered the iPad on April 5 from his Ruth Street home, cops said. That gave investigators a chance to track the serial number for the tablet, which had disappeared from a Best Buy in New Springville, to Lucas’ address, cops added.
He was arrested and charged with possession of stolen property, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
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Also in New Springville, a man stole jewelry from an acquaintance, authorities said.
Charles Tolas allegedly swiped several pieces of gold jewelry from the woman’s Wellington Court home Dec. 17.
He pawned the loot at the Global Gold Exchange in the Staten Island Mall, according to court documents.
Lucas was arrested Thursday and charged with possession of stolen property, the records state.
Investigators said it was not immediately clear how the suspect knew the victim.
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A man ended an early-morning fight by plunging a knife into his antagonist’s chest on a Port Richmond street, authorities said.
David Navarrete, 22, allegedly stabbed the man at 12:30 a.m. Dec. 19 on Port Richmond and Post avenues.
He was arrested Thursday and charged with four counts of assault, court records show.
Police said the victim underwent treatment for internal bleeding at an undisclosed hospital.
Brooklyn
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Cops nabbed a suspect who allegedly shot a man near 56 N. Oxford Walk on Sept. 16.
Jonathan Ramos, 21, was arrested Sunday on an unrelated gun charge, and detectives soon managed to connect him to the other crime, according to police sources.
As a result, the charges against him grew to include attempted murder, the sources said.