Brooklyn
A would-be bank robber fled empty-handed when a teller scoffed at his demand note, cops said.
The bandit entered the Roosevelt Savings branch at 111-10 Flatlands Ave. in Canarsie just before 11 a.m. on July 9.
When the bold bank employee ignored his demand note, he fled.
Manhattan
A brazen Midtown burglar was arrested after subsequently making contact with the victim and offering to sell back stolen jewelry, police said.
Barry Kirkland, 52, broke into the victim’s apartment on 53rd Street near Second Avenue on July 5 and made off with watches, cufflinks and jewelry, court papers state.
“I can get all of your stuff back from a fence in Queens. It’ll cost $2,500,” the entrepreneurial perpetrator allegedly told the victim when they met up Thursday.
The victim called the cops and Kirkland was arrested.
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A creep was busted yesterday for sexually assaulting a man at a Midtown hotel, cops said.
Harris McCoy, 43, allegedly met the 50-year- old victim Monday night at a club and they went together to McCoy’s room at The Pod Hotel on 51st Street near Third Avenue.
The victim said he passed out and woke up bruised and bleeding yesterday at 7:20 a.m., cops said. McCoy was soon busted.
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An elderly woman was critically injured yesterday in Midtown when she was struck by a vehicle backing into a parking space, police said.
The 73-year-old victim was walking on 58th Street near Sixth Avenue at 9 a.m. when a male driver in a Toyota sedan plowed into her as he backed into the space, police added.
She was admitted to New York Presbyterian Hospital in critical but stable condition. The driver stayed at the scene and no criminality was suspected.
Bronx
Two thugs mugged a passer-by at gunpoint in Claremont, cops said.
Victor Nunez, 28, and José Medrano, 24, ambushed the victim on Sheridan Avenue near East 172nd Street at 3:45 a.m. Friday, put him in a chokehold and struck him in the head, authorities said.
“If you move we’ll shoot you,” Nunez allegedly barked as he held a gun to the victim’s head.
The thugs rifled through the man’s pockets and swiped his cellphone, wallet and $16.50, court papers state.
The thieves were arrested that day.
Staten Island
A crook threatened to kidnap a woman’s child as she robbed her in West Brighton, authorities said.
“We’ll take your baby if you don’t give us everything you got,” Doris Valeria-Canales-Mendoza, 34, allegedly snarled at the victim pushing a stroller at 9:30 a.m. on June 20 on Castleton Avenue near Hoyt Avenue.
The suspect and a cohort fled with the victim’s purse and cash, court papers state.
On July 7, Valeria-Canales-Mendoza allegedly snatched a woman’s purse, containing a cellphone and jewelry, at Taylor Street and Degroot Place in Port Richmond. Cops busted her Monday.