Brooklyn
The man in this picture is wanted for questioning in the armed robbery of a an 18-year-old youth in a Brownsville subway station, police said.
The suspect allegedly stopped the victim at about 12:45 a.m. Nov. 13 at the station on Junius Street and Livonia Avenue, flashed a gun and ran off with his iPhone.
The suspect was described as in his late teens, approximately 5-foot-11 and 175 pounds, authorities said. He had gold-capped front teeth and wore a brown ski cap and brown jacket during the heist, cops said.
Queens
Whoops!
Two would-be rapists got a shock when the young woman they had just jumped in Ridgewood turned out to be a 26-year-old transvestite, police sources said yesterday.
The two stalked their prey on a desolate stretch of 70th Street near 70th Avenue at about 4 a.m. Saturday, the sources said.
They allegedly punched and kicked him, then pulled off his pants as one began groping — and suddenly realized the truth.
Stunned, he quickly ran away, followed by his confused accomplice, said the sources.
The victim suffered a cut to the head and was treated at a local hospital.
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A crucifix was vandalized at Corona church over the holiday weekend, cops said yesterday.
The religious object at St. Leo’s Church on 49th Avenue near 104th Street had damage to its nose, and its right hand was torn off, cops said.
The NYPD Hate Crime Unit is investigating,
Manhattan
A burglary suspect yesterday insisted he was “just messing with the police,” not trying to hang himself in a holding cell, according to law-enforcement sources.
Ames Figueroa, 22, of The Bronx, was arrested Saturday in connection with four break-ins and five robberies of Duane Reade stores in Manhattan, sources said.
An officer at the 19th Precinct station house on East 67th Street later found him on the floor of his cell with part of a sweat shirt looped around his neck and another part tied to the cell door, sources said.
Figueroa was taken to Cornell Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, the sources said.
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A man who allegedly let a pimp use his Upper West Side apartment for prostitution is facing sex-trafficking and kidnapping charges.
Johnny Jackson, 53, allegedly gave a friend, identified only as Mike, permission to “run his women” through the Wise Towers apartment on West 92nd Street near Columbus Avenue, court records show.
Mike allegedly confiscated an acquaintance’s cellphone, cash and driver’s license and then locked her in the apartment at 4 a.m. Nov. 13. He later allegedly forced her to have sex with several men before transferring her to Washington Heights.
She tried to escape by lowering herself from that sixth-floor apartment, using her jacket as part of a makeshift rope, but slipped and landed in the hospital after breaking her back and legs, the court papers state.
Jackson has a date in court on Dec. 11, sources said.
Staten Island
This drug collar was in the heart of Heartland Village, authorities said.
Officers searched Monica Girgis, 18, and Besim Begaj, 28, at 11:20 p.m. Nov. 14 after observing them in a car on Elmwood Park Drive near Devon Loop, law-enforcement sources said.
Girgis allegedly was found to have marijuana wrapped in paper, a gravity knife, a grinder with pot residue, and oxycodone pills.
Begaj allegedly was found to be holding oxycodone pills, a small plastic bag full of pot, a glass pipe and Xanax.
Each was arrested and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of marijuana.