The Bronx
A gunman and his knife-wielding accomplice bound a woman and robbed her inside a Morrisania apartment, cops said.
The thugs pulled the gun and knife on the 30-year-old victim inside the Boston Road home at around 9:20 p.m. Nov. 25 before they bound her with duct tape and stole $3,000, a US passport and jewelry, police said. The victim was not injured.
Two days later, surveillance video showed a man and woman using the victim’s credit card at a Regal Cinema in New Rochelle, cops said.
Brooklyn
A man used a stolen credit card to shop for baby formula in Flatlands, cops said.
The suspect allegedly used the stolen card at the Walgreens on Flatbush Avenue near Utica Avenue at around 8:30 p.m. Dec. 28.
Cameras in the drugstore store captured him wearing a black and white skull cap, a white striped shirt and blue jeans.
A man was gunned down in East Flatbush.
The 25-year-old victim was found outside a home on Linden Boulevard near Nostrand Avenue at 5 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
He was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A man believed to be the triggerman fled on foot moments after an argument with the victim, police sources said.
Cops did not release the victim’s name because his family had not been notified.
He had been arrested 17 times for offenses that included drug possession and assault.
No arrests had been made as of yesterday.
Manhattan
A bandit tried to bust open an ATM because he was fresh out of cash and wanted to hit some Chinatown lounges, police sources said.
Francisco Torres, 45, and his brother José Torres, 35, allegedly used a crowbar to try to open a cash machine in front of the Cha Chan Tang tea room, but bolted when it wouldn’t budge.
Francisco later copped to the Jan. 17 crime, telling cops, “Yes that’s me. I came to the city and planned to go to a lounge on Mott Street. I had no money, so I tried to break into a machine with a screwdriver and pliers and a crowbar. But I never got into it.”
The brothers are linked to the bumbling bandits who ripped an ATM out of a Chinatown bank with a chain and an SUV in a failed bid to drag the cash dispenser over the Manhattan Bridge on Dec. 7.
A cop confiscated a Dirty Harry-style gun from a family gathering in Chelsea on Christmas Eve, authorities said.
Officer Eric Rivera was called to a domestic dispute in the Chelsea Houses on 10th Avenue at around 11:20 p.m., police said.
Darrell Lester, 26, was arguing with his girlfriend over a phone when he went ballistic and began tearing up the apartment, cops said.
Two male relatives threw him out and called police.
Lester was allegedly trying furiously to get a backpack he had left on the couch, when Rivera arrived on the scene within 30 seconds of the 911 call, police said.
Lester was moving toward the bag when the cop intervened and snagged it, officials said.
Rivera opened the bag to find a .44-magnum revolver with a massive barrel, cops added.
The .44 is famous as the weapon of choice of the Clint Eastwood character Dirty Harry Callahan.
Lester fled but was nabbed nearby and charged with weapons possession, criminal mischief and acting in a manner injurious to a child.
Queens
A thief robbed two churches in Woodside, police said.
The suspect (right) forced open the rear door of the Seventh Day Adventist Community Church on 58th Street at 12:30 a.m. Jan. 16, and stole two desktop computers, a laptop and two dozen Visa gift cards, cops said.
On Jan. 24, the thief forced open the rear door of the Sure Foundation Lutheran Church on Roosevelt Avenue and took an iPad, iPod, cash and checks, police said.
The suspect is believed to be in his 30s with a medium build and was wearing a red baseball cap and a red waist-length jacket during the first heist, cops said.