Manhattan
The man in this pictured is wanted in connection with a botched robbery at a Lower East Side bodega, authorities said.
He can be seen on surveillance video entering the Hilltop Grocery, on Grand Street near Columbia Street, at 9:55 p.m. Saturday, police said.
He lurks in an aisle before attacking an employee of the store and trying in vain to grab cash out of the register before fleeing empty handed, cops said.
He was described as in his late 20s, about 6-foot-4 and wearing a black leather jacket.
Brooklyn
A 22-year-old man found shot in the chest yesterday morning in Brownsville was rushed to a hospital, but it was too late, authorities said.
James Curtis was discovered at 9 a.m. at his home at 611 Chester St. and died in Brookdale Hospital, police said.
Investigators said they were trying to determine who shot him, as well as the motive.
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A man walked into a Williamsburg bank yesterday morning and handed a teller a demand note but didn’t hang around long enough to make a score, cops said.
The suspect, who arrived at the Chase branch on Graham Avenue and Broadway at 8:50 a.m, was described as about 5-foot-9 and 140 pounds with a mustache and goatee and wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, cops said.
Staten Island
A man went on a rampage in Mariners Harbor, first threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and later, after cops showed up, smashing his car into three police vehicles, court records attest.
Mortimes Sellers, 36, phoned his ex on Feb. 15 after a dispute, telling her, according to the documents, “Bitch, that was the beginning! I’m coming back to kill you!”
Two days later, he allegedly showed up at her house high on drugs and carrying a baseball bat.
Then, upon spotting a man inside the residence, he raised the bat and yelled, “Come at me!” the court papers say.
When he noticed the responding officers approaching, Sellers got into his car and tried to flee, but instead hit the three squad cars and nearly clipped the officers themselves before he was stopped and placed under arrest, the records state.
Sellers was charged with aggravated harassment, reckless endangerment and unlawfully fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, said a spokesman for District Attorney Dan Donovan.
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A 16-year-old boy was busted in Clifton when cops noticed the butt of a 7 1/2-inch-long machete hanging from his pants pocket, authorities said.
Tehutia Ayebaufo was walking down Targee Street near Vanderbilt Avenue at about 11:30 p.m. Feb. 15, court documents say.
When asked, he told arresting officers, “I use this for my protection.” He then swung at one of them while screaming obscenities, the records state.
He was slapped with charges of criminal possession of a weapon and resisting arrest, police said.
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An ex-con found himself back in handcuffs after he hopped into a parked car that didn’t belong to him and began rummaging through its compartments, court records say.
Jesus Vazquez, 45, allegedly gained entry to the 2006 Honda, parked in front of the owner’s home on Oder Avenue near Hay Street in Concord, at 3:50 p.m. Feb. 19, the documents claim.
But he was spotted by a neighbor, who called 911, according to the records.
When responding officers found him outside the vehicle, Vazquez allegedly asked, “Why would I be in the car if I didn’t take anything?”
He was arrested and charged with attempted petit larceny and unauthorized use of a vehicle, police said.
As it turned out, Vazquez has an extensive criminal record — 28 priors dating back to 1992, including two convictions, law-enforcement sources said.
Queens
A man who is believed to have jumped in front of a subway train early yesterday in Woodside was fighting for his life last night, police said.
He was at the R-train station at Northern Boulevard and Broadway at 5:40 a.m. when he leaped into the path of an oncoming train, cops said.
He was listed as being in critical but stable condition, according to FDNY officials.