Brooklyn A thug fatally shot a man yesterday on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street in broad daylight yesterday.
Douglas Joyner, 44, was hanging out on Nostrand Avenue and Madison Street at about 2:50 p.m., when the killer approached and opened fire. Joyner was hit in the back and died later at Interfaith Hospital .
Authorities said the victim had a criminal background.
A man threatened an MTA driver with a knife after trying to sneak onto a bus in Midwood, authorities said yesterday.
Carmine Fasano, 54, entered the bus through the back door at East 16th Street and Avenue J at 7:20 a.m. last Thursday, sources said. The driver noticed, and asked Fasano to come up to the front. Fasano cursed at the driver, who demanded that he leave the bus, cops said.
Before doing so, Fasano allegedly ripped up a sign in the bus, prompting the driver to follow him outside. Fasano spit in his face, pulled a pocket knife and challenged him saying, “What are you going to do?” the sources said.
The driver flagged down a cop and Fasano was arrested on charges of menacing and theft of services.
Manhattan A thief was busted for breaking the thumb of a Chelsea liquor-store owner during a robbery, cops said yesterday.
William Parker, 43, allegedly demanded money from the victim, 35, in the store on Ninth Avenue near West 19th Street at 12:35 p.m. last Thursday.
Parker stole an unspecified amount of property and assaulted the victim, cops said. He was charged with assault and robbery.
Two Greenwich Village store employees helped cops pinch a thief who had attacked them with pliers, police said yesterday.
A manager and a security guard spotted Marcus Crevelle, 26, swipe several items from the V.I.M clothing store on Broadway and Great Jones Alley at 4:50 p.m. last Thursday.
When the workers confronted him, Crevelle allegedly attacked them.
Crevelle was busted for assault and robbery. No one was seriously injured.
Queens Two car thieves were busted after leading police on a chase, then breaking into a Saint Albans home, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began at 3:05 p.m. last Tuesday, when detectives spotted Ian Cooper, 26, allegedly trying to pry a headlight off a stolen Infiniti parked on Dunlop Avenue.
After the cops circled the block, they saw Cooper in a different Infiniti with Hensley Brown, 24, and another man.
When cops tried to pull them over, the suspects refused to stop and twice drove onto a sidewalk to pass other cars, sending pedestrians running for their lives, police said.
The suspects were finally stopped at 198th Street and 122nd Avenue, where Cooper and Brown allegedly kicked in the back door of a residence.
During a police search, the duo was nabbed on charges of burglary, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of stolen property and auto stripping, said a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
Their alleged accomplice got away.
Cops arrested a man after they found him with bogus Homeland Security credentials in Flushing, authorities said yesterday.
Jesus Portillo, 23, and five others were hanging out on the sidewalk at Murray Street and Sanford Avenue, forcing pedestrians to walk around them into the street at about 8 p.m. on July 25, police said.
Cops arrived and ordered the group to disperse, but Portillo allegedly refused. An officer frisked him and found the fake ID card, police said.
Portillo was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Staten Island Three people were arrested after police found them with a cache of drugs and ammo in a Livingston apartment, authorities said yesterday.
Cops entered the first-floor apartment on Doe Place near Burgher Avenue last Thursday. Inside were Tyrek Wilson, 17, and Kerizme Van, 27, both of whom lived there, and an acquaintance, Dennis Hill, 20, sources said.
Police reported recovering two Ziploc bags of crack cocaine, one large Ziploc bag of cocaine, a partially smoked joint and assorted ammunition.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said the suspects were charged with drug possession and possession of ammunition.