Brooklyn
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Police yesterday arrested a man in the stabbing death of a teen in Bedford-Stuyvesant last year.
Darrell Smith, 17, was found unconscious with knife wounds at 1785 Pacific St. at about 10:45 p.m. on June 21, 2011.
The victim was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
Orpheus Nelson, 19, was charged with murder and weapons possession. The victim had a prior arrest for drugs and Nelson has previously been busted for robbery, sources said.
The bloodshed stemmed from an ongoing dispute, sources added.
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Police cuffed a crook for several robberies in Mapleton and Gravesend, law-enforcement sources said.
Jonathan Rosas, 19, allegedly first struck with two accomplices at about 3:10 a.m. on July 20 when he snatched $120 from a halal food vendor at 18th Avenue and 65th Street.
Rosas then went to an apartment on 64th Street near 18th Avenue at about 6:30 p.m. that day and demanded more cash from two men who had given him money for marijuana, sources added.
Rosas was armed with a knife while a cohort pretended to be an undercover cop and flashed a gun, sources said.
On July 21, he allegedly put a weapon to a man’s back at about 2:05 a.m. as the victim walked near 17th Avenue and 64th Street, and swiped $160 from him, sources added.
Detectives collared Rosas shortly after the caper and recovered a BB gun, cellphones and credit cards from his residence, cops said.
He was charged with robbery, menacing, harassment, grand larceny and weapons possession.
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Cops are asking the public’s help in finding the missing Canarsie man pictured here.
Gene Johnson, 78, was last seen inside a Chase Bank on Foster Avenue near Rockaway Parkway at about noon Thursday, police said. He lives on East 95th Street.
Johnson, who police sources say suffers from Alzheimer’s, stands 6-foot-1, weighs 180 pounds and has brown eyes.
He was wearing gray khaki pants, a navy blue and gray long-sleeve button-down shirt and a black leather cap when he vanished, cops added.
Manhattan
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Police have arrested the man responsible for a brutal murder on the Upper West Side last month, cops said yesterday.
Frank Herrera, 51, stabbed a 56-year-old man to death inside a single-residence-occupancy hotel on July 27, cops said. He has been charged with second-degree murder.
Police don’t know what sparked the attack and have not released the name of the victim because his family has not been notified.
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A driver whose license has been suspended a whopping 43 times was nabbed in  lower Manhattan by an eagle-eyed Port Authority cop, authorities said.
Officer Jessica Franco was posted at the Holland Tunnel at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when she noticed Everett Holder, 55, of Brooklyn, driving westbound in a 15-foot box truck that had its outside mirror hanging off, authorities added.
Franco asked the driver for his paperwork and learned that he had a suspended license, no insurance and 14 open traffic warrants, according to a spokesman for the Port Authority Police Department.
Holder has apparently been driving without a license since 1986 and uses the box truck to operate a moving company, officials said.
The truck was impounded and Holder faces a felony charge for driving without a license for the 44th time, police said.
Staten Island
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The two brazen hoodlums who asked an elderly couple for the name of a cab company after robbing their Oakwood home are now accused of sticking up a car-service driver last week, authorities said.
Ronald Baker, 19, flashed a gun at the driver on Blackford Avenue in Port Richmond at about 2:55 a.m. on July 25, according to court records.
He and Pebbles Pless, 21, swiped cash and a cellphone, court papers add. They also allegedly took the vehicle on a joyride.
They were charged with robbery, weapons possession, menacing and assault, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
On Wednesday, the duo allegedly struck again and stole more than $15,000 worth of goods from seniors on South Railroad Avenue.
In that caper, they were each charged with burglary and robbery.