Queens
Cops busted a thug wanted for brutally beating an elderly Forest Hills man with a hammer, authorities said last night.
Jaime Olivera, 49, of Elmhurst, went to the home of his 82-year-old former employer on 67th Drive near Booth Street on Feb. 12, police sources said.
When they got into an argument, the suspect pulled out the hammer and inflicted head wounds requiring 100 stitches, cops said.
The suspect finally turned himself in after friends and relatives persuaded him to surrender.
Manhattan
A man was killed when he was struck by a Metro-North train at the Marble Hill station last night.
The victim was one of three men spotted on the street-level tracks. Cops were called, and when officers arrived, the men ran off — but one slipped and fell in front of the north-bound Hudson Line train, a police source said.
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A 29-year-old woman was fatally shot in her apartment at 260 W. 131st St. in Harlem last night. Her boyfriend was being questioned by cops. Neither the name of the woman — who was shot twice in the stomach and pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital — nor the suspect was released.
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A knife-wielding miscreant tied up a man with an electrical cord, stuffed cleaning crystals into his mouth and ransacked his friend’s Murray Hill apartment, police said.
The assailant met the 23-year-old victim in Club Urge in the East Village and they later went back to the victim’s friend’s East 31st Street apartment at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The thug put a knife to the victim’s neck and snarled, “I’m Colombian, in the Mafia, and this is what I do.”
The perp placed him on a bed, tied him up and shoved the cleaning crystals into his mouth.
For three hours, the crook looted the apartment, then fled.
The victim managed to get out and bang his head on the door of a neighbor, who called 911.
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Two armed thugs barged into an East Harlem apartment, bound two people with tape and swiped jewelry, a TV and a computer, police said yesterday.
The assailants hid in the stairwell, watching as one of the victims, a 50-year-old woman, was entering her apartment on Third Avenue near East 112th Street at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
They forced her inside and tied her up, along with a 25-year-old man, who was in the bedroom.
Brandishing guns, they gathered the loot and fled.
Brooklyn
A motorist viciously beat a female cyclist with a metal rod after an argument on an East Flatbush street, cops said yesterday.
Orlando Leach, 40, exited the driver’s side of his car on Snyder Avenue near Kings Highway at 10:15 p.m. May 21 as the 25-year-old cyclist rode by, causing her to swerve into traffic.
The angry woman then hurled a metal rod, shattering his windshield, which prompted Leach to chase her, sources said.
She tripped and fell during the pursuit and Leach hit her in the face with the rod, police said.
The road-rager coldly left her and walked into a nearby building, cops said.
The woman was hospitalized with a shattered eye socket and jawbone.
Leach was arrested on Wednesday and charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, authorities said.
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Cops busted a thug who beat his ex-girlfriend’s stepfather with a bicycle chain because the older man wouldn’t give him cash, police said yesterday.
Mark Pendleton, 36, approached the 63-year-old man on Lafayette Avenue near Broadway at 9:30 p.m. March 22, sources said.
Pendleton asked the man for money, and the victim refused, saying he didn’t like him, sources said.
Pendleton allegedly flew into a rage and punched the man in the face, knocking him to the ground.
He then took his bike chain with a heavy lock and beat him on the legs, police said.
Finally, Pendleton allegedly swiped all of $19 from the victim and fled.
The victim was taken to a hospital and treated for a bruised eye and broken ankle, sources said.
Police arrested Pendleton on Wednesday and charged him with assault and grand larceny, authorities said.
Staten Island
Cops busted a man for driving under the influence on the Staten Island Expressway, and found a load of pills in his car, police said.
Daniel Nicastro, 35, was on the SIE near Bradley Avenue at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when he plowed over the center median.
Cops said he fell out of his Chevy Impala and was slurring his speech.
They found nine Percocet tablets, and bottles with 100 methadone pills and 60 Xanax tablets, cops said.
Nicastro, who admitted he had taken a pain pill, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and operating a vehicle impaired by drugs, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.