Brooklyn
A man was stabbed to death and his roommate’s hand was slashed when he tried to grab the attacker’s knife early yesterday in a Sunset Park apartment building, law-enforcement sources said.
The doomed victim, who was in his late 20s, had returned home to 58th Street near Fourth Avenue at 5 a.m. with two other men, sources said.
Those men left after a while but soon came back and allegedly started arguing with the tenant over a debt.
When one stabbed the tenant in the torso and the other began beating him with a belt, the roommate jumped in, causing the attackers to drop the blade and the belt and flee, the sources said.
The stabbed man died at Lutheran Medical Center. His roommate was treated there for minor injuries.
The Bronx
An ex-con wanted for the murder of a Morris Park man has been apprehended, police sources said yesterday.
Charles “Boogie” Dennis, 29, allegedly shot Adrian Garcia, 25, to death and wounded Garcia’s 20-year-old nephew in the thigh on Aug. 26 at the Pelham Houses.
This followed an argument between the two victims and four men, the sources said.
A witness fingered Dennis, who also lived in the housing project, as the shooter, according to the sources.
He was arrested last Thursday and charged with murder, manslaughter, attempted murder and possession of a deadly weapon.
It turns out that he’s no stranger to the criminal-justice system, having served time on another count of weapon possession, records show.
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A 36-year-od man was gunned down yesterday outside an Edenwald housing project, police said.
He was shot in the back on Schieffelin Avenue and East 229th Street, near the Baychester Houses, at 10:05 a.m. and died at Montefiore Hospital.
Investigators last night said they were still searching for a motive.
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A mugger (pictured), already wanted for wielding a hypodermic needle as a weapon in two Parkchester robberies, has apparently branched out into Williamsbridge, police said.
He is the prime suspect in the theft of an iPad from a 16-year-old boy on White Plains and East Gun Hill roads at about 7:40 a.m. on Sept. 10, investigators said.
Manhattan
A minor traffic stop turned into a major drug bust in Washington Heights — netting more than a thousand packets of heroin and landing two men and a woman in custody, authorities said.
A Port Authority police officer became suspicious when he noticed that a 2004 Lexus had come to an illegal stop on the West 179th Street on-ramp to the George Washington Bridge at about 5:30 p.m. last Friday, cops said.
When asked where they had been, driver Darrell Cooper, 51, nervously replied that he and his two friends had gone to “125th Street and 81st Street, looking for a charger for my cellphone,” the cops added.
But passenger Quatrail Pair, 23, offered that they “were on 178th Street and Jerome Avenue for two hours.”
And the woman, 18-year-old Myiacha Williams, claimed they’d gone shopping for an hour.
With everyone spinning a different yarn, the officer’s suspicions grew, so he called for backup.
Officers found 1,252 packets of heroin — 713 marked “Block Party” and 539 labeled “Sick Call” — stashed under the driver’s seat, sources said.
Cooper, a Newark resident, was charged with traffic-law infractions and heroin possession.
Pair and Williams, from Henderson, NC, were slapped with drug charges.
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Three thugs stole a man’s iPhone in Central Park after threatening to shoot him — only to wind up in handcuffs when cops tracked them down using the pricey cell’s GPS, authorities said.
“I have a gun,” Carlos Rodriguez, 24, allegedly snarled as he snatched the phone out of its owner’s hand near Fifth Avenue and 93rd Street at about 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
“I will shoot you if you don’t walk away,” he added, according to court documents.
The man forked over the iPhone but stole a glance at Rodriguez before leaving, prompting the perp to allegedly bark, “Better walk away! I got a gun!”
Cops later found the phone in the purse of Rodriguez’s alleged accomplice, Lamesha Bailey, 19.
Rodriguez, Bailey and a juvenile who is not being identified because of his age were charged with robbery and possession of stolen property. Dan MacLeod, Rebecca Harshbarger, Jessica Simeone, Philip Messing and Julia Marsh