The would-be robber pictured above is wanted for a failed attempt at snatching a man’s chain inside a Foxhurst bodega, police said.
Three armed suspects (one pictured above) mugged a man in Fordham, police said.
Manhattan
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A man was busted yesterday after trying to hold up two banks in Harlem, authorities said.
Luis Colon, 44, went into the Chase Bank at West 125th Street and Morningside Avenue at 9:15 a.m. and passed a demand note to a teller, police said.
The worker refused to fork over any dough, and the suspect fled empty handed, cops said.
Less than 30 minutes later, he tried his luck again at another Chase Bank, on Broadway at West 112th Street, and this time, he scored, police said.
He was nabbed nearby when cops spotted him fleeing, police said.
Colon was charged with robbery, attempted robbery and criminal possession of stolen property.
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The body of an unidentified man was found in the East River yesterday.
The man, in his 30s, was found at 8:55 a.m. near East 120th Street.
The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
Brooklyn
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The suspect is wanted for snatching a cellphone from a straphanger in a Brooklyn Heights subway station, authorities said.
The victim, 35, was in the York Street F-train station when the thief snatched his iPhone right from his hand and fled, police said.
The suspect is 25 to 35, 6-foot-1 and about 185 pounds, police said.
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A 25-year-old man was ambushed and shot dead outside the Pink Houses in East New York, police said.
The victim had exited a car on Stanley Avenue near Hemlock Street at around 6 p.m. Wednesday when two gunmen approached and blasted him multiple times in the torso, police added.
The victim, who had 16 arrests on his record, was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.
The Bronx
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Three armed suspects mugged a man in Fordham, police said.
They followed the 36-year-old victim into his apartment building at Crescent and Hughes avenues at 9 p.m. Oct. 14, ripped of his necklace, and fled, police added.
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A man yanked a Samsung Galaxy phone from the hands of a passenger aboard a subway train in Wakefield, police said.
The thief swiped the cell as the 49-year-old victim was riding a southbound 2 train at 10:39 p.m. Nov. 27, and ran from the train when it stopped at the 233rd Street Station at White Plains Road.
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A Kingsbridge man was busted for attacking his wife for her debit card, authorities said.
Nelson Alba, of Kingsbridge Avenue, chased his wife around their home, shoved her to the floor, attacked her, and grabbed her purse at 10:05 p.m. Dec. 2, court records say.
The couple’s 14-year-old son witnessed the struggle and tried to break it up, the papers say.
Alba, 43, allegedly emptied the contents of the purse onto the floor and grabbed the debit card.
He was arrested and charged with robbery, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, assault, petit larceny, menacing, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.
His wife suffered minor injuries.
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The would-be robber pictured above is wanted for a failed attempt at snatching a man’s chain inside a Foxhurst bodega, police said.
The suspect sneaked up behind the 54-year-old victim as the man waited in line at the Prospect Avenue grocery store, on the corner of East 164th Street, at around 11:40 a.m. Nov. 28, police added.
He tried to unhook the man’s necklace, but the victim fought back, and the thief wannabe fled empty-handed, police said.
Queens
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Two masked bandits robbed an Astoria real-estate office at gunpoint yesterday.
The men, wearing ski masks, tied up two workers in the third-floor office of Pistilli Realty on 30th Avenue at 35th Street at 8:10 a.m. and put them in the bathroom, according to police.
They then ransacked the office and stole a cash box containing an unknown amount of money before making a clean getaway.