Brooklyn
Police have released surveillance photos of the gunman who they believe wounded a 12-year-old and three teens in Williamsburg.
The thug chased a group of youngsters along South Second Street toward Havemeyer Street at around 7:25 p.m. Friday, and fired off several shots as he ran, cops said.
Three boys, ages 12, 14 and 17, were each struck in a leg and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where they were in stable condition, authorities said.
A second 14-year-old was also struck in the leg and taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, officials said.
The gunman was captured by surveillance cameras running south on Havemeyer, cops said.
Police believe the shooter is about 20 years old, and was wearing an orange or red sweater or jacket, dark pants and white sneakers.
The smoking bandit who robbed a bodega in Bushwick last week has been arrested, cops said.
Ibin Thomas, 26, walked into the deli on Broadway near Kossuth Place with a lit cigarette hanging from his mouth at around 10:50 p.m. March 10, police said.
When a clerk asked him to take the butt outside, Thomas refused, jumped the counter, threw a chair, ransacked the place, attacked three shop employees and cleaned out the cash register, according to cops.
The employees were not seriously injured.
Authorities released surveillance footage of the rampage and arrested Thomas on Monday.
He has been charged with robbery.
The Bronx
Three sneaky thieves posing as flower delivery people robbed a woman when she opened the door of her Highbridge apartment, according to police.
A woman with flowers knocked on the victim’s door on East 168th Street near Jerome Avenue at around noon Monday, and when the woman answered, two men barged in and ransacked her home, taking her valuables, police said.
A grandmother in Highbridge grabbed her 1-year-old grandson by the neck and shoved her 4-year-old granddaughter, as well as another child in the family, in front of the baby’s mother, authorities said.
Lorell Snipe, 49, shoved the girl, pushed that child’s 7-year-old cousin and picked the baby up by his neck in an apartment on Nelson Avenue near West 172nd Street at around 4 p.m. March 1, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
The angry grandma shoved her own daughter as well and declared, “I can put my hands on whoever I want to,” the court papers allege.
The children all began screaming in fear, and the toddler had to be taken to a hospital to be treated for bruises and swelling on his neck, the documents state.
Snipe was charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, menacing and harassment.
A man allegedly whacked his baby’s mom over the head with a bottle of Hennessy cognac.
José McCord, 41, hit the woman in an apartment on Concord Avenue near East 151st Street in the Melrose section during an argument on Feb. 12, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
Police sources said it wasn’t clear what angered the father, and the baby wasn’t home at the time.
The victim was treated at a local hospital for a cut to the head, but she did not require stitches, the sources said.
McCord was charged with assault, menacing, weapon possession and harassment.
Staten Island
Two men tried to take 20 rolls of expensive electrical wire from the Home Depot store in Charleston, authorities said.
Roger Keefe, 49, and Voman Krauchina, 24, tried to haul more than $2,500 worth of the product out of the store on Veterans Road West at around 1:35 p.m. March 8, but employees spotted them and reported the theft to cops, who caught the duo red-handed with the goods, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
Both men were charged with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and petit larceny.
A fast-food customer in New Brighton stole tips from the restaurant’s workers, law-enforcement sources said.
Everett Hardy, 34, was in the Subway sandwich shop on Richmond Terrace near Bank Street at around 3 p.m. March 8, when he snatched five one-dollar bills from the tip jar on the counter, a Criminal Court complaint states.
Workers spotted him and called cops, who nabbed Hardy as he was fleeing, the sources added.