The Bronx
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The man pictured above is being sought for allegedly yanking a gold chain off a man’s neck in University Heights and escaping.
Police said he stole the chain off the 55-year-old victim at 5:20 p.m. Monday near West 190th Street and Jerome Avenue. The victim was not injured, they added.
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A good Samaritan helping a stranger get to where he claimed he was going in Fordham Heights in the middle of the night wound up robbed of his cellphone when the “lost” man pulled a gun on him, cops said.
Hector Cortes, 34, approached the victim on Fordham Road near East 188th Street Tuesday and asked, “You know how I get to 190th and University?” according to a Criminal Court complaint.
The helpful victim offered to walk Cortes there, but after a short distance, Cortes revealed his intentions, snarling, “I have a gun. Don’t look back. Give up your phone.”
He fled with the cell, only to be arrested nearby a short time later, police said. The victim got back his property, and Cortes was charged with robbery, grand larceny and criminal possession of a weapon.
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Four punks beat up and robbed a fellow teenager on a basketball court in Claremont Village, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Rayvon Wright, 17, and Willy Almonte, 16, were arrested in Crotona Park at 5:30 p.m. Monday, court papers state.
Almonte allegedly approached the victim and asked to see his basketball, then refused to give it back, instead passing it to Wright and two other teens who similarly ignored the pleas for its return, the complaint says.
They then allegedly surrounded the teen, knocked him to the ground, punched him in the face and ran off with his cellphone.
Almonte and Wright were charged with robbery, assault and grand larceny. Their alleged accomplices were still being sought last night, police said.
Brooklyn
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A 57-year-old woman was discovered stabbed to death in a Crown Heights apartment building’s stairwell, authorities said.
The body was found in a building on Park Place near Classon Avenue at about 5 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
The woman, who did not live in the building, had been stabbed several times in the chest and arm and was pronounced dead at the scene, cops said.
Investigators said they hope area surveillance videos will help ID a suspect.
Queens
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A man walking down a Jackson Heights street just before dawn was lucky to survive being stabbed in the chest during a botched robbery, police sources said.
The 28-year-old was on Roosevelt Avenue near 88th Street at about 5:30 a.m. when a stranger approached and demanded cash, sources said.
Before he could respond, the victim felt a sharp pain as a knife punctured his left lung, the sources said.
He was in stable condition last night at Elmhurst Hospital, officials said.
His attacker was being sought, investigators said.
Manhattan
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A man was stabbed in a brutal robbery outside a Lower East Side housing project yesterday.
He lost his cash and cellphone and was stabbed in the head.
He was held up at Madison and Montgomery streets, in front of the La Guardia Houses at 8:30 a.m. cops said.
He was taken to New York Downtown Hospital, where doctors said he could expect to make a full recovery.
Investigators were looking for his attacker last night.
Staten Island
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A teenage couple was taken into custody in Rosebank when cops executing a search warrant found a cache of drugs and paraphernalia in their home, authorities said.
Shaquaisha Moore, 19, and Sharriff Sidbury, 17, were arrested after officers noticed the cocaine and marijuana left in plain sight throughout the Bay Street apartment at 6:15 a.m. on June 21, cops said.
What’s more, the officers reported, the drugs were within mere feet of Sidbury’s 10- and 6-year-old sisters.
Moore and Sidbury were each charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
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A sloshed motorist rammed his vehicle into a parked car and then drove onto someone’s front lawn in Westerleigh, authorities said.
George Kramer, 25, told arresting officers that he’d had five beers before getting into his 1995 Ford Bronco and getting into trouble at Dickie and Leonard avenues at about 3:30 a.m. June 21, a Criminal Court complaint states.
The Bronco jumped the curb, and its air bags deployed, yet a hammered Kramer still managed to squeeze out of the SUV, the complaint said.
He was charged with DWI, according to the court documents.