Cops are hunting for a suspect (above) who allegedly mugged a woman in a Claremont building.
These three men (inset) are wanted for breaking into a West Farms apartment, authorities said.
These three men (inset) are wanted for breaking into a West Farms apartment, authorities said.
The Bronx
These three men are wanted for breaking into a West Farms apartment, authorities said.
The suspects illegally entered the apartment on Lebanon Street near Morris Park Avenue at 8:30 a.m. Dec 18, police said.
They pillaged it and fled with a television, laptop and tablet, and even took the victim’s cable box, cops said.
The thieves are all about 5-foot-7 and weigh between 150 and 170 pounds, police said.
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Cops are hunting for a suspect (pictured) who allegedly mugged a woman in a Claremont building.
He approached the 57-year-old woman as she exited the elevator in the Washington Avenue high-rise at 9:25 a.m. Dec. 20.
He assaulted the victim and fled with her earrings and necklace, as well as $45, police said.
A camera at a nearby building recorded the suspect about 35 minutes before the crime.
The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with a black eye, cops said.
Queens
A worker filling an ATM machine in Long Island City was attacked and robbed at gunpoint on Christmas Eve, authorities said.
The victim, in his 30s, was loading the machine on 40th Avenue near 12th Street at 1:35 p.m. when two armed men attacked him and made off with $15,000 in cash and his iPhone, then fled.
The victim suffered minor injuries, police said.
Staten Island
A drunken driver whined about being arrested following a booze-fueled crash in Rossville, authorities said.
“I’m a 50-year-old man who was drinking and driving. I’m being treated like a murderer,” Mark Catone, 50, allegedly wailed as cops cuffed him.
Catone had crashed his Nissan into a utility pole at the corner of Arthur Kill Road and the West Service Road at 12:40 a.m. Saturday, according to court papers.
He was witnessed running from the wreckage, but was quickly collared by responding officers, cops said.
“I didn’t hurt no one. I hit a pole and hurt my car. That’s it,” he allegedly said.
Catone was charged with DWI, the records show.
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A man was caught dealing prescription drugs in Richmond Valley, authorities said.
Anthony Santo, 35, was spotted exchanging money and pills — including the anti-anxiety medicine alprazolam and oxycodone painkillers — with another man at around 4:15 p.m. Saturday in front of a Page Avenue shopping plaza, according tocourt papers.
When narcotics cops moved in, they searched Santo’s car and discovered brass knuckles inside the glove box, the court records say.
He was arrested for drug and weapons possession, according to the documents.
Manhattan
A fight turned bloody when a man was stabbed on the Lower East Side yesterday, cops said.
The 50-year-old victim was in a heated argument with a knife-wielding man at Pike and Henry streets just after midnight, police said.
The suspect stabbed the victim in the back and then fled south down Pike Street, cops said.
The victim was taken to Cornell Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
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Police busted a hot-head who went berserk and attacked a man in a Midtown building, authorities said.
Michael Williams, 33, was embroiled in an argument with a 45-year-old man in the office building, on West 37th Street near Eighth Avenue, at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.
Williams then whaled on the victim, punching him in the head, and caused a cut along the man’s forehead, according to court documents.
Williams has two prior arrests for grand larceny and criminal sale of a controlled substance, records show.
He was arrested in the latest incident on charges of assault and harassment, records show.
Brooklyn
A goon pummeled and robbed a man on Christmas, cops said.
The 28-year-old victim was walking on Central Avenue at Greene Avenue at about 2:20 a.m. when the assailant punched him in the face.
The man dropped the two shirts he was carrying, and the thief ran off with them.
No arrests have been made. The victim was not seriously hurt.