The Bronx
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Cops are looking for a robber who snatched a woman’s purse in the ATM vestibule of a bank in Fordham, police said.
The suspect accosted the 22-year-old victim as she attempted to leave the Bank of America branch on the Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road at around 9:30 p.m., Friday, cops said.
The brute shoved the woman back inside, grabbed her pocketbook and fled, police said.
The victim wasn’t injured.
The suspect is believed to be in his mid 30s and about 5-foot-9.
Video surveillance shows he was wearing a black jacket and gray hat at the time of the incident.
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A man knocked out his baby mama’s teeth as their 2-month-old infant screamed inside the Mount Eden home, according to court records.
The victim got into an argument with 26-year-old Stevie Pickens at around noon March 4, and he suddenly punched her in the mouth, causing her to lose her teeth, the documents state.
The victim fell to the floor, got up and tried to run out the front door, but the assailant repeatedly pulled her away from the door and kept her in the apartment with the couple’s crying baby for at least 20 minutes, the court papers claim.
Pickens continued punching the woman in the arm and back, and also kicked her in the leg, according to the records.
The victim required stitches. Pickens was charged with assault, unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment.
Queens
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A serial sicko who molested a 15-year-old girl in an Astoria library has been arrested, police said yesterday.
Hector Troche, 56, exposed his genitals to the victim inside the Queens Public Library at 40-20 Broadway at around 6 p.m., March 4, police said.
The pervert also grabbed the girl’s crotch before fleeing, according to police.
The victim was not injured.
The suspect has a record of arrests that dates back to 1987.
It includes busts for public lewdness, criminal possession of a controlled substance and rape, sources said.
The rape charge garnered him a 10-year prison sentence, followed by five years of parole, records show.
Troche was spotted on surveillance video and charged Friday with sex abuse, forcible touching and public lewdness, police and court records claim.
Brooklyn
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An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested after driving drunk in Bay Ridge and refusing to take a breath test, cops said.
Lester Sanchez, 29, was charged with driving while intoxicated at 4:55 a.m., Saturday, police said.
He was also charged for refusing to submit to a Breathalyzer and for reckless endangerment, cops said.
Police would not say what led to the reckless- endangerment charge, and court records were not immediately available because the officer had not yet been arraigned.
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An off-duty firefighter was charged with driving drunk in Greenwood, police said.
Warren Thompson was busted at 5:45 a.m., Saturday, at the intersection of 37th Street and Seventh Avenue, authorities said.
He was also charged with refusing to submit to a breath test, police said.
Manhattan
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An eagle-eyed cop matched two sets of surveillance video to nab a suspect who allegedly stole a woman’s credit card in a Starbucks on the Upper East Side, court papers show.
The victim was in the coffee shop on First Avenue and East 60th Street at around 12:45 p.m. Jan. 6, when she noticed that her wallet had disappeared from her purse, the records say.
Her credit card was later used at the TJ Maxx outlet on East 59th Street, according to the documents.
Officer Kevin Gieras, of the 19th Precinct Detective Squad, matched surveillance video from the coffee shop and the department store, which led to the arrest of Yancy Tamiko, 41, on March 1.
She faces four counts each of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
She was also charged with identity theft and forgery for allegedly signing the victim’s name to the credit card receipts.