Manhattan
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A police officer was knocked cold yesterday in the Times Square subway station after falling onto the tracks as he tried to rescue a crazed homeless man, authorities said.
Emergency Service Officer James Griffin, 41, spotted the man picking up trash on the southbound N-line tracks at about 7 a.m., cops said.
Richard Wilcox, 29, resisted being moved to safety and in a scuffle the officer fell, hitting his head on the tracks and losing consciousness, cops added.
Griffin, an 18-year veteran, was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he regained consciousness and was treated for head and arm injuries.
Wilcox was arrested for reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and criminal trespass.
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A deviant sexually abused a woman he had locked in a Washington Heights apartment, authorities said.
Jeremiah Silva, 30, violated the victim and forced her to perform a sex act in the depraved attack at 10 p.m. on Aug. 14 in the apartment on Fort Washington Avenue, court papers state.
He was arrested on Sept. 15 on charges of sexual abuse, committing a criminal sex act and unlawful imprisonment.
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A 19-year-old with an assault record was fatally stabbed in the heart yesterday after a catfight turned into a deadly brawl outside a Hell’s Kitchen high school, sources said.
“He collapsed in the middle of the street,” Rocio Aguilar, 16, said of victim Theodore Beckles.
Beckles’ girlfriend fought with another girl in the building that houses the Environmental Studies HS and Independence HS on West 56th Street at about 2:30 p.m., sources said. Both girls ran to their boyfriends for help, sources said.
One teen plunged a knife into Beckles’ heart, witnesses said.
Brooklyn
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A man going to extreme lengths to get out of paying a traffic ticket claimed falsely that he was a captain of a volunteer ambulance company rushing to an emergency in Bed-Stuy, authorities said.
John Warwick, 47, allegedly blew through a red light at Atlantic and Kingston avenues at 1:30 p.m. last Dec. 14.
Rather than pay the summons, Warwick allegedly presented documents at a March 13 hearing indicating he had been responding to an emergency call for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
However, the organization’s commander told investigators that Warwick holds only an honorary title and performs administrative tasks, court records state.
Warwick was arrested on Sept. 6.
The Bronx
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A livery cabdriver was carjacked at knifepoint yesterday in Olinville, authorities said.
The 49-year-old driver picked up the two men at Southern Boulevard and Westchester Avenue just before 7 a.m., police said.
The passengers asked to be taken to Gun Hill and White Plains roads, but at the destination one of the thugs pulled a knife and demanded that the cabby fork over his cellphone and wallet, cops said.
The victim fled from the black Crown Victoria and the thugs took off in the car, police said.
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Three gun-wielding robbers busted into a Morris Heights apartment, bound two women and made off with $12,000, cops said.
The bandits pushed their way inside the apartment on Sedgewick Avenue at about 12:40 p.m. on Sept. 10 and used zip ties and duct tape to restrain a 49-year-old woman and her 19-year-old daughter, cops said.
They then grabbed cash from a safe hidden in a closet, and threatened to kill the victims if cops were subsequently contacted.
Out of fear, the mother waited until Monday to report the crime to detectives at the 46th Precinct.
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An MTA driver in Morrisania was assaulted yesterday by a punk who had entered the rear exit door of a bus to avoid paying the fare, authorities said.
The hood hopped through the back door of the BX41 bus at 161st Street and Melrose Avenue at about 8 a.m., according to an MTA spokesman.
The driver confronted the goon, who grabbed him by the throat and slammed his head into a window, the spokesman added.
Staten Island
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A reckless perp with a need for speed was busted zooming through Mariners Harbor on a stolen motorcycle, authorities allege.
Cops spotted Takheem McDaniel, 22, on a 2004 Yamaha swerving in and out of traffic near Mariners Lane and Van Name Avenue at about 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, according to court papers.
He ditched the hot wheels and tried to flee, but was apprehended after a brief chase and scuffle with cops, prosecutors said.
Queens
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The iPhone-plucking suspect pictured above swiped the popular device from a 29-year-old woman in Astoria, cops said.
He mugged the woman at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 near 30th Street and 36th Avenue.