Manhattan
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Cops are looking for a group of young women (above) who robbed a girl in Chelsea, authorities said.
The 16-year-old victim was walking near 15th Street and Sixth Avenue at about 6:40 p.m. on May 13 when the suspects approached.
One of the crooks bumped into the victim and said she wanted to fight, police said.
The other two surrounded the girl and demanded she hand over her cellphone.
She gave it to them, and they fled.
Police say the suspects are in their late teens.
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Police arrested a suspected killer in a Chelsea slaying, authorities said.
Norman Croney, 20, was nabbed by the US Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force in Newark on June 6 for the murder of Jonathan Fonseca, 28, on May 24 at Eighth Avenue and 26th Street, cops said.
Croney was taken to an Essex County jail. The Manhattan Warrant Violent Felony Squad took him into custody Friday, and he was charged with murder after he confessed to the stabbing, police sources said.
Croney is homeless, and it was not immediately clear how he knew the victim.
He will be arraigned in Manhattan tomorrow.
Staten Island
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An admitted gang member tried to shoot a man during a fight in St. George last week, authorities said.
Terrance Legrand, 23, punched the victim in the face at about 7:40 p.m. on June 14 on St Marks Place, a Criminal Court complaint states.
Legrand also pulled a gun, pressed it against the victim’s stomach and pulled the trigger, the documents allege.
Luckily for the victim, the gun jammed, sources said.
The victim ran, with the gang-banging gunman in pursuit, and ducked into the nearby 120th Precinct, sources added.
Cops arrested Legrand on charges of weapon possession, menacing and attempted assault.
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A woman was busted for trying to steal $1,400 worth of makeup from a department store in New Springfield, law-enforcement sources said.
Katie Ann Burns, 26, allegedly walked around the store in the Staten Island Mall on June 15 and slipped mascara, blush and other cosmetics into a bag, a Criminal Court complaint states.
A security guard saw the alleged thief taking the items and confronted Burns.
She was arrested and charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Queens
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A man was shot dead in Hollis early yesterday, police said.
Donte Smith, 26, had just left a grocery store on Farmers Boulevard near Jordan Avenue when an assailant shot him in the left side of the chest just before 1 a.m., cops said.
The bullet exited under his right arm, and Smith collapsed.
EMS rushed him to Queens General Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 1:20 a.m.
Smith, who lived just a block away from where he was killed, had at least six prior arrests, a police source said.