Manhattan
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A school-safety agent was arrested in lower Manhattan for making threatening phone calls to a woman, authorities said.
Douglas Parks, 64, was busted at 10:40 p.m. Sunday and taken to the First Precinct station house, where he was charged with aggravated harassment, cops said.
The relationship between Parks and the woman was not immediately known, police said.
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An 18-year-old Norwegian tourist yesterday plunged to his death from a hotel in the Flatiron District in an apparent suicide, police sources said.
The well-dressed teen climbed through a hatch on the 13th-floor roof of the budget Broadway Plaza Hotel at West 27th Street and Broadway and leaped at approximately 3:10 p.m., the sources said.
He fell feet first through the roof of an adjoining building and landed in a shoe business’ storage area, according to the sources, who added that he checked in to the hotel alone and that no criminality was suspected.
Brooklyn
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This guy seems a french fry short of a Happy Meal.
Guthewa Franck, 20, allegedly slapped a worker at a Canarsie McDonald’s after the worker refused to give him free food, court papers state.
Franck went to the fast-food joint on Rockaway Parkway near Conklin Avenue at 2:50 a.m. Dec. 18 and asked for a meal on the house, but was turned away, the records show.
He left but allegedly returned with a fake handgun and pointed it at the worker while reaching for the cash register. When the worker slapped his hand away, Franck slapped him in the face, authorities said.
Police soon arrested the would-be stickup artist and recovered the phony pistol from a nearby trash can, the records allege.
Charged with attempted robbery, menacing and harassment, Franck was being held on Rikers last night in lieu of $5,000 bail.
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Three times is apparently the charm for this alleged cellphone thief.
Luziano Hinks, 35, was arrested Dec. 19 in connection with the Dec. 8 mugging of a woman at the Prospect Lefferts Gardens subway station, authorities said.
Hinks allegedly sneaked up behind the woman at 9:30 a.m. and put her in a chokehold, his hand over her mouth, according to court papers.
He threatened to kill her if she screamed and pressed something sharp against her neck, the documents claim.
Hinks then allegedly snatched the phone from her hand and her purse from her arm and fled.
His charges include robbery, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a weapon, according to the records.
It turned out that Hinks was also arrested Dec. 12 and Dec. 17 on suspicion of involvement in two other cases but was released both times, the records state.
Not this time around. He was ordered held in lieu of $15,000 bail.
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A hapless robber was arrested after he tried to grab a man’s smartphone in East New York and found himself with a fight on his hands, authorities said.
Emmanuel Hunt, 30, approached the man at 11:15 a.m. Dec. 18 and went for the Samsung Galaxy 3S, court papers say.
He allegedly punched the phone owner in the face and body, but the man still wouldn’t let go, so the two wound up rolling around on the ground.
Hunt was cuffed shortly thereafter and hit with a slew of charges, including attempted robbery, assault, menacing and harassment, the records show.
Staten Island
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Busted over a telltale bulge!
Steven Fleming seemed to be just hanging out at Arlington Place and South Avenue in Mariners Harbor at 4:55 p.m. Dec. 18 when an eagle-eyed cop spotted a shape that he recognized as a revolver in the man’s jacket pocket, according to court documents.
The officer frisked the 30-year-old Fleming, and uncovered not only the American Bulldog .32-caliber revolver, but nine little plastic bags of weed as well, the records state.
Fleming, whose police record includes a 2007 assault rap, was charged this time with criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of marijuana, the court records show.
He was being held last night in lieu of $50,000 cash bail, authorities said.
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A cat burglar was tracked down after he peddled some of his loot to a pawn shop in Elm Park and — as required by law — provided proper ID, authorities said.
James Smalls, 21, allegedly broke into a house on Cottage Place near New Street through a rear window in the kitchen sometime after 9 a.m. back on June 26 .
The resident said she went out and returned a few hours later to find that window open and several pieces of gold jewelry missing, according to court papers.
When he was arrested Dec. 19, Smalls admitted that he had sold the baubles to State Refinery on Castleton Avenue, the records state.
“Someone asked me to pawn it, so I did,” he allegedly told detectives.
He was charged with burglary, criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny, the documents say.