Brooklyn
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A Bushwick teen was was shot early yesterday, sources said.
The 14-year-old boy took a bullet in the shoulder at about 12:15 a.m. on Jefferson Street near Cypress Avenue.
He was listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
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A man was busted for stealing crosses and other gold jewelry in an unholy house heist in Gerritsen Beach, authorities said.
Michael Schaffer, 29, allegedly went into a residence on Nova Court near Madoc Avenue at about 7:30 a.m. on Dec. 17 and took two crosses, four chains, a pair of earrings and an anklet, court papers state.
The loot was valued at more than a $1,000. The victim told cops that she discovered a hammer left behind by the burglar in her bedroom.
When he was taken into custody, Schaffer allegedly told cops he had ditched the jewels in a sewer at 35th Street and Avenue T, records show.
Police found one of the earrings and the anklet at that location.
Schaffer was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and petit larceny.
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A woman went into a destructive rage at a Bushwick gas station, authorities said.
For reasons not immediately clear, Monica Colon, 31, allegedly smashed a computer terminal at the BP station on Flushing Avenue near Bushwick Avenue at 4:10 p.m. last Wednesday.
She also allegedly took a lighter from a display rack and tried to set wires on fire.
Colon allegedly caused $1,500 in damage before cops apprehended her, sources said.
She was charged with several counts of criminal mischief, the sources said.
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A brazen thief stole equipment from an NYPD vehicle in Sunset Park, police sources said.
The sticky-fingered crook swiped $200 in aluminum wheel chocks and $750 in outriggers from the police vehicle parked at the southeast corner of Third Avenue and 23rd Street at about 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 6, sources said.
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Police are investigating a prisoner’s attempted suicide at a Crown Heights station house, law-enforcement sources said.
The prisoner, 35, was in custody at a transit station house on Carroll Street when he tied his shirt to cell bars and tried to hang himself at about 12:50 p.m. last Wednesday, sources said.
Police cut the shirt from the bars, and the man was rushed to Woodhull Hospital for medical and psychological evaluation, sources added.
He is expected to survive.
The Bronx
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Police are investigating the death of a Rikers Island inmate, law-enforcement sources said.
Ronald Spear, 52, left his Rikers dormitory without permission and struck a correction officer with a cane at about 5:40 a.m. last Wednesday, sources said.
The two struggled, and the victim was finally handcuffed — and he died shortly after at the Rikers medical unit.
There were no signs of trauma to the body, and sources reported that the inmate had a history of cardiac problems and chronic renal failure.
The death was not considered suspicious.
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A man was shot and critically wounded in Morrisania, cops said.
The 44-year-old victim was shot in the pelvis and chest at about 3:20 a.m. Monday at East 165th Street and Prospect Avenue, and was fighting for his life at Lincoln Hospital. No arrests have been made.
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A punk threw a Molotov cocktail at the window of a Williamsbridge bodega early yesterday, but luckily there was little damage, authorities said.
The makeshift bomb bounced off the window of the grocery store on Laconia Avenue near 228th Street and rolled under a car at about 2:40 a.m. It did not ignite anything.
It was not immediately clear who launched it.
Staten Island
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A boozed-up woman drove right into a patrol car in West Brighton, authorities said.
Yvonne Chang, 45, allegedly rear-ended the marked cop car with her black 2010 Nissan at about 12:55 a.m. last Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.
Her breath reeked of alcohol, and she blew more than twice the legal limit on a Breathalyzer test, sources added.
She was charged with aggravated DWI and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, records show.
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A confessed lookout in a West Brighton burglary was arrested, court papers state.
James Swaney, 21, allegedly hid on the side of a home on Harvest Avenue near Broadway at about 10:50 p.m. on Dec. 18 while one accomplice rang the bell and another smashed a window with a brick, authorities said.
“I was the lookout. They wanted to hit the house,” he allegedly confessed to cops.
“They went in the house, they threw a brick through the window,” he allegedly added. Swaney was charged with burglary and criminal mischief. It was not immediately clear if anything had been taken.