Queens – A dispute over a mahjong game in a Flushing apartment last night led to the fatal stabbing of a 46-year-old woman, police sources said.
The victim was found with wounds to her stomach in the second-floor hallway of the building on 40th Road near Main Street at around 7: 35 p.m.
“I heard yelling. She sounded like she was fighting with a man, then nothing,” said a neighbor, Shin Yao.
The suspected attacker, a 47-year-old man, fled.
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A man assaulted a female cop as she tried to stop him from attacking a woman in South Jamaica, police said yesterday.
At 10:30 p.m. on Jan. 18, Cortez King, 37, was sitting on the hood of a Chrysler and screaming at the woman, who was locked in the car on Rockaway Boulevard near 150th Street, cops said.
The officer who responded told Cortez to get off the car, and he cursed at her, cops said.
He then allegedly elbowed the officer in the chest, hopped over a fence and ran into a building, where he was arrested.
Cortez was charged with assault and disorderly conduct, said a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.
Brooklyn
This guy is way too addicted to caffeine.
Sergio Salas, 36, swiped two coffee jars from a Bensonhurst bodega after threatening a worker with a beer bottle, authorities said.
Salas allegedly demanded cash in the store on 20th Avenue near 67th Street at 10:20 a.m. Monday. He tried unsuccessfully to open the register and asked for money from the worker, whose wallet was empty.
He ended up snatching coffee jars and muffins, but, when he tried to leave, the worker blocked him, police said.
Salas allegedly picked up an empty bottle and threatened to hit the victim, who quickly moved out of the way.
Salas fled into a building, and the worker called 911. Salas was arrested and charged with robbery and menacing.
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A Brownsville restaurant patron who viciously slashed a man in the neck was busted after the victim picked him out of a photo array, cops said.
James Roberts, 46, clashed with the 56-year- old man in an eatery on East New York Avenue near Rockaway Avenue at 3:40 a.m. on Nov. 14.
The violence erupted when the man refused to talk with Roberts, who allegedly cut him across the neck with a sharp object.
The victim, who knows Roberts, needed 11 stitches. Roberts was arrested Monday for attempted murder.
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Two teens were busted while breaking into cars in Sheepshead Bay, cops said yesterday.
Michael Mazurek and Maxim Lempert, both 17, had already gotten into three cars on Quentin Road near East 22nd Street at 3:30 a.m. Sunday when members of the private Shomrim patrol passed by.
The crew called 911, and cops nabbed the duo, whose pockets were allegedly full of change stolen from the cars. They were charged with petit larceny.
Manhattan
Police nabbed an ex-con carrying a stolen GPS system and an illegal knife, authorities said yesterday.
Cops spotted Dwayne Smith, 49, allegedly peeking into cars at Washington Square North and Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village at 3 a.m. Sunday.
Then Smith tried to sell the GPS device to an undercover cop and a taxi driver on Lafayette Street near Bond Street in NoHo, cops said.
Officers busted Smith and recovered the stolen GPS and a gravity knife. Smith was charged with weapon possession and possession of stolen property.
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That must have been some dress! Three would-be shoplifters were caught trying to steal an $8,000 dress in a Christian Dior store on the Upper East Side.
Edisher Akhobadze, 37, Natalia Gordon, 29, and Oleksandr Ganskoy, 49, were initially lurking in the Prada store on Madison Avenue at 70th Street at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Prada employees quickly called police after the trio left and went to the nearby Dior store. The three allegedly tried to remove a security tag from the dress, and an alarm went off.
Police who initially responded to Prada dashed over to Dior and busted the trio for attempted grand larceny.
Staten Island
Three would-be burglars landed behind bars after a neighbor spotted them trying to break into a Castleton Corners house, police said.
Juan Gonzalez, 17, Christian Rojas, 21, and Baracaldo Ramirez, 36, allegedly walked up to the house on Quinlan Avenue near Purdy Avenue at about 1:45 p.m. Saturday.
While Ramirez acted as a lookout, his cohorts smashed a back window, police said. The neighbor heard the glass shatter and called 911.
The men were arrested and charged with attempted burglary, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.