The bank bandit pictured above knocked off an HSBC branch in Flatlands, cops said.
Staten Island
Police yesterday released the sketch pictured of the hipster-looking hoodlum wanted for the heartless shooting of a pit bull during a terrifying home invasion last month in Graniteville.
The bearded bandit, wearing a FedEx uniform and hat, forced his way into Justin Becker’s home on Lambert Street at around 4:45 p.m. on March 31 and blasted his dog, Kilo.
The slug bounced off the skull of the 12-year-old dog, and Kilo miraculously survived.
Becker, 32, was unharmed and the gunman escaped.
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A Charleston man bashed his father’s head into a grandfather clock as they brawled in their home, authorities said.
Gennaro Rubino, 21, was arrested shortly after he grabbed his dad by the neck and repeatedly slammed his face into the timepiece glass as they fought at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Pheasant Lane residence, according to court papers.
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Cops used an iPhone-tracking app to hunt down two cellphone thieves — and found the suspects sitting in a stolen pickup truck in West Brighton, authorities said.
Justin Ortiz, 18, and Michael Fox, 22, allegedly ambushed the phone victim at knifepoint at 2:40 p.m. Monday on Hart Boulevard, and swiped his pricey cell before zooming off in a Chevy Silverado pickup.
Officers used the Find My Phone app to trace the pilfered smartphone to Campbell Avenue, where they found Fox and Ortiz sitting in the Silverado — which had been reported stolen a week earlier from Astoria, Queens, cops said.
Fox and Ortiz were charged with robbery, weapons possession, grand larceny and unauthorized use of a vehicle, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
Brooklyn
The bank bandit pictured knocked off an HSBC branch in Flatlands, cops said.
The hulking hood, standing 6-foot-3 and wearing sunglasses and a brown Yankee hat with fur ear flaps, barged into the branch at 5929 Flatlands Ave. at 12:45 p.m. on April 5.
He slipped a teller a demand note and fled with an undisclosed sum of dough.
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An eighth-grader was savagely stabbed in the torso yesterday while arguing with an assailant near his Bushwick school.
The 14-year-old boy was attacked just blocks from IS 171 at Hemlock Street and Ridgewood Avenue after dismissal at 2:30 p.m., according to cops and education officials.
The victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, and the stabber fled.
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A 24-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in Brownsville, police said.
Dwaine McKenzie, who had prior drug busts, was gunned down at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday on Herkimer Street near Rockaway Avenue, just down the block from his home.
He was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital. No arrests have been made.
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Three crooks posing as construction workers looted an elderly man’s Greenpoint home, police said.
The scammers sweet-talked their way into the 86-year-old victim’s house on Meserole Street on April 6.
One con man lured the victim into the bathroom, telling him they were going to inspect his windows, while two cohorts slinked off and swiped cash from the man’s bedroom.
All three then fled.
Queens
Two armed thugs roughed up their victims during three robberies in Long Island City, cops said.
The thugs first beat a 43-year-old man with a baseball bat on 24th Street near 41st Avenue at around 6 p.m. on March 30 and took the victim’s cellphone.
The duo hit again at 7 p.m. on April 8, pulling a knife on a 54-year-old man on 28th Street near 24th Avenue and snatching cash.
The next day, the suspects pummeled a 31-year-old man at 40th Avenue and 22nd Street at around 8:50 p.m. and made off with undisclosed property.
Manhattan
The FBI and NYPD yesterday nabbed the “White Glove Bandit,” who is suspected in a spree of four bank robberies.
Investigators recognized Michael McManus from surveillance video because he has at least two prior arrests for bank robbery, sources said.
McManus, 41, whose record of burglaries, robberies and other thefts stretches back to 1992, was arrested without incident in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village, sources said. His latest heist took place Tuesday at an HSBC on Broadway near East 9th Street. He had held up the same bank Jan. 26, authorities said.
The prolific perpetrator — who earned his nickname by wearing latex gloves while threatening tellers with a gun — is also believed responsible for two robberies at the Citibank branch on La Guardia Place on Feb. 14 and March 12.