Police are asking for help in the search for a missing 14-year-old Flushing boy (photo).
Manhattan
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A Jersey City man with a pocketful of pot tore down and then ripped up the red cloth awning of a popular Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village, police said yesterday.
Eric Acosta, 27, allegedly jumped up and grabbed the awning outside Morandi’s, on Waverly Place, at 2 a.m. Friday.
Arresting officers found a plastic bag containing marijuana in Acosta’s front pocket, according to court records.
He was charged with criminal mischief and unlawful possession of marijuana.
Morandi’s Keith McNally also owns Manhattan hot spots Balthazar and the Minetta Tavern.
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A man (above) sporting tattoos on both arms allegedly broke into the basement of two Murray Hill restaurants.
He entered the room shared by Royal Pizza and and the Famous Chicken Place, at 592 Third Ave., near 39th Street, at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
Nothing was reported stolen, but there was some damage to the building, cops said.
The suspect was also described as about 6-foot-1 and 185 pounds.
Brooklyn
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Two punks shattered a Williamsburg bodega’s Plexiglas window early yesterday, then punched workers who dared confront them, police said.
Armando Amparo, 20, was charged with breaking the window of the Lorimer Food Express, on Lorimer Street near Broadway, at 3:20 a.m., police said.
He and Ramon Acosta, 21, were taken into custody on assault and menacing charges.
Neither is a stranger to the criminal-justice system, since both have priors, cops said.
The Bronx
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An apparently boozed- up driver was busted in Baychester with her 10-month-old son in her SUV, authorities said.
Latishia Dandridge, 33, stopped in the middle of the street and stepped out of the Ford Explorer, leaving the baby inside, just after midnight Thursday.
When a police officer approached at the intersection of Hutchinson River Parkway and the New England Thruway, he noticed that the vehicle had some front-end damage, court records show.
Dandridge claimed to have been rear-ended by a tractor-trailer, but there was none in sight, the officer noted in the court documents.
She refused to take a Breathalyzer test and was charged with DWI and endangering the welfare of a child.
Staten Island
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An unidentified man found with three gunshot wounds yesterday morning in Mariner’s Park was rushed to a hospital but died there, and police are seeking a green sedan seen fleeing the scene.
The victim was found on Holland Avenue near Mariner’s Marsh Park at about 7:40 a.m., cops said. He had been shot twice in the stomach and once in an arm.
He died an hour later at the Richmond University Medical Center, the cops said.
Queens
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Police are asking for help in the search for a missing 14-year-old Flushing boy.
Brian Hur was last seen Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. as he angrily left his family’s home on 165th Street near Depot Road, cops said.
He is believed to have had a fight with his parents, investigators said.
He was described as 5-foot-3 and 105 pounds, and when last seen, he was wearing a blue shirt, gray shorts and black socks.