Staten Island
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A self-described “moron” responded to being pulled over by a cop in Shore Acres by hitting the gas and leading police on a 70-mph chase in which she nearly ran over several pedestrians, authorities said.
Melissa Molina, 22, was driving near Maryland Avenue and Tompkins Avenue at 1:10 a.m. Friday when the cop flagged her, court papers state.
Instead of stopping, she allegedly blew by four stop signs and turned off her lights in hope of escaping.
She barely missed flattening pedestrians crossing Bay Street at St. Johns Avenue, authorities said.
When cops caught up with her at her Maryland Avenue home, a dejected Molina said, “I’m a moron. I should’ve just stopped.”
The Bronx
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Police are seeking the public’s help in locating a suspected mugger.
Shariff Brown, 36, is wanted in connection with the mugging of a woman whose cellphone was stolen during an argument at 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Brown (above) is described as 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
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First he went after his girlfriend with a baseball bat. Then he tried to blow it off by telling cops, “I had a couple of drinks . . . you know how it is.”
Michael Manzello, 41, slugged the unidentified woman in the head in an apartment on Undercliff Avenue near West 181st Street at 5:05 p.m. Monday, court papers say.
He was charged with assault, menacing and harassment but was released without bail after she was granted a temporary order of protection.
Manhattan
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A third man has been arrested for his role in the savage Greenwich Village attack that left a Massachusetts man clinging to life last Sunday morning, cops said.
Mahmoud Habib, 30, was apprehended Friday and charged with gang assault for his part in the brutal beating of Kevin McCarron, 34, during a dispute between his eight-person crew and Habib’s six-person gang, authorities said.
Habib, Hatem Farsakh, 24, Sharif Rizk, 22, and three other men who remain on the lam bashed McCarron in the head with a baseball bat, a tire iron and a blackjack, according to police.
Farsakh and Rizk were charged with attempted murder earlier this week. McCarron remains hospitalized in critical condition.
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An unidentified man walking on the tracks was fatally struck by a No. 6 train early yesterday in Gramercy, cops said.
The tragedy unfolded at about 4:30 a.m. at the 23rd Street subway station near Park Avenue South.
The man is believed to have been homeless and in his 50s, authorities said.
Brooklyn
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The phone was smart. Its owner? Not very.
A 34-year-old Sunset Park woman was lucky to get back her smartphone after telling cops she left the door to her apartment, near Eighth Avenue, open at about 2 p.m. Jan. 8 while dropping in on a neighbor, sources said.
She said that when she got back home, she realized that her iPhone 4S had been snatched.
Cops recovered the phone when they arrested Elliot Nunez, 36.