The Bronx
A gunman opened fire on a South Bronx strip club, sending patrons and passers-by scurrying for cover, police revealed Sunday.
The shooter was caught on surveillance video walking past Sin City on Park Avenue, between the Major Deegan Expressway and East 138th Street, at around 3:10 a.m. Christmas Day, when he turned and fired several shots into the front entrance of the jiggle joint, according to police.
No one was injured, but the video, released Sunday, shows bystanders running for their lives and diving underneath cars before the unidentified shooter fled.
Queens
Cops nabbed two graffiti vandals who tagged a subway car in Richmond Hill, officials said.
Sgt. Jimmy Conwell, Detective Christopher Diaz and Officer Anthony D’Ascanio, were patrolling the subway station at Jamaica Avenue and 111th Street just after midnight Saturday when they spotted Tommy Martinez, 19, and Jeremy Cautin, 21, sitting on a bench near a J-train car that had just been vandalized, cops said.
Diaz noticed Martinez trying to close a backpack with spray-paint cans inside, while Cautin had one green latex glove and a can of spray paint protruding from his jacket pocket, according to police.
The three plainclothes members of the Transit Bureau’s Vandal’s Task Force say Martinez painted “FEAL” in letters that were 10 feet wide and nearly 4 feet high on the subway car while Cautin acted as a lookout.
Both men were charged with criminal mischief, making graffiti, possession of graffiti instruments and trespass, police said.
Brooklyn
A city Department of Sanitation worker was pulled over for a traffic violation in East New York and wound up under arrest on a weapons-possession charge, according to officials.
Dandy Montalvo, 35, was driving his 2006 Pontiac with no taillights at around 12:20 a.m. Sunday, when he illegally passed another car on the right, police said.
Officers pulled him over and found he had a knife in the car and was driving without insurance, police said.
Montalvo was charged with insufficient taillights, passing a vehicle on the right, driving without insurance and weapon possession.
Three suspects are wanted in connection with the murder of a bodega worker in East New York, according to police.
Video surveillance released Saturday night shows the first suspect unlocking the door of the 797 Deli Grocery at Stanley Avenue and Cleveland Street on Friday morning.
The first suspect is seen entering the deli and returning with his head hung low and a black plastic bag in his hand.
A second man then walks into the store and exits a short time later with an unidentified object in his hand.
A third suspect stands lookout on the corner.
Soon after the men were caught on tape, cops found deli worker Hisham Zidan, 55, dead inside the bodega’s bathroom with cuts and bruises on his head.
The cash register was on the floor with change scattered around it.
The store’s security system was missing, but the suspects were captured on a surveillance system nearby, according to police.
Manhattan
A Fairway employee has been charged with the murder of a co-worker and friend who was stabbed to death outside the supermarket’s warehouse in Manhattanville, police said.
Jovanny Paulino, 25, was slapped with charges of second-degree murder and felony assault, cops said.
Paulino was in an argument with pal Pedro Miguel Payero Valerio, 22, at the wholesale grocery outlet on 12th Avenue near West 135th Street at around 1:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
The fight continued across the street, in front of the Hudson River Cafe, where Paulino pulled out a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest, cops said.
Valerio was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.