Brooklyn
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Maybe she should have asked herself, “What would Jesus do?
A woman was arrested on a burglary rap after telling cops she entered her ex-boyfriend’s Brighton Beach home and took his Bible and a plaque depicting Christ, sources said.
A house-sitter returning to the Brighton Street home at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 12 found the locks broken and caught 47-year-old Rene Grosso inside, sources said.
Grosso fled and the house-sitter called police, who interviewed the boyfriend and the suspect.
Grosso allegedly said she went to the home uninvited and discovered that someone had already broken in.
The suspect said she took the religious items for “safekeeping.”
Grosso, who lives across the street from the burglary scene, was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, petit larceny and possession of stolen property.
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A bank teller was busted for stealing cash from his employer, along with an accomplice who helped stage a bogus robbery in Sheepshead Bay, according to sources.
Jonathan Simmons, 21, was the only employee working with the branch manager at about 8:25 a.m. Tuesday when a man walked in and passed a note demanding the money in the teller’s drawer, sources added.
“I have a gun,” the note allegedly read.
Simmons returned the note and handed over $5,320 in cash that included specially marked “bait” money, sources said.
Cops canvassed the area for the accomplice and became suspicious of Simmons, who agreed to a polygraph before admitting that he had staged the robbery, source added.
Simmons was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The accomplice is on the lam.
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A man was arrested in the fatal stabbing of a Sunset Park man, authorities said.
David Gonzalez, 30, and a cohort went to Esdias Perez’s apartment at about 6 a.m. Monday and began arguing with the victim over money, sources added.
Gonzalez stabbed Perez while his brutish pal beat the victim with a belt, sources said.
The victim’s roommate tried to jump in but was attacked and injured, sources added.
The thugs allegedly fled.
Perez was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center, where he died.
Cops busted Gonzalez on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
His accomplice is still at large.
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Cops are searching for a teen purse snatcher in Cypress Hills.
The crook approached a woman on a stairway of the J-train station on Crescent Street near Fulton Street at 6:25 p.m. on Aug. 30.
He grabbed her pocketbook and fled, according to police.
The victim was not injured.
The suspect (pictured above) is believed to be in his late teens, 5-foot-8, and about 160 pounds, cops said.
He wore a white T-shirt, dark shorts and a black baseball cap during the heist and had a backpack, cops added.
Queens
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Cops are hunting for the burglar (pictured above) who boosted electronics from an Astoria home.
The suspect picked the lock of a Newton Avenue apartment at 12:45 p.m. on Sept. 12 and made off with the loot.
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A well-dressed iPhone thief has targeted women carrying the popular digital-communication device in Astoria, cops said.
The suspect has been garbed in a white button-down shirt, a tie, black dress pants and black shoes, sources said.
On Sept. 14, he pulled a knife on a 27-year-old near 35th Street at about 10 p.m., punched her in the face and grabbed her phone, according to police.
At 6 p.m. the next day near 24th Street and 28th Avenue, he punched a 23-year-old in the face, threatened her with a knife and took her phone.
Manhattan
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A thug punched and robbed a woman on the Lower East Side, police said.
He followed the 25-year-old victim into a building on Allen Street near Hester Street at about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday and struck her twice in the face, cops said.
He then took her purse and fled along Allen Street.
The suspect, in his late 30s, was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.