Manhattan
A twisted thug tried to sexually assault a female passerby with a cane just outside the Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, police sources said yesterday.
Homeless ex-con Orlazdo Lassiter, 50, who has more than 20 prior arrests for drugs and assault, came up behind the 26-year-old woman as she was crossing the street in front of the hotel at 1 Central Park West around 6:10 p.m. last Thursday, cops said.
The hulking Lassiter brandished a brown wooden cane and tried to sodomize her with it, cops said. Police were quickly called and arrested Lassiter, who was charged with forcible touching and attempted aggravated sexual abuse.
Queens
Police busted three armed thugs who fatally stabbed a man and seriously wounded another in Corona, authorities said yesterday.
Jesus Astimbay, 27, Juan Guanaquesa, 26, and John Espinoza, 17, were nabbed at the scene of the stabbing on Roosevelt Avenue on Sunday, police said.
The dead victim, in his 20s, has not yet been identified. A 23-year-old man who also was stabbed was in stable condition at Elmhurst Hospital.
The suspects were charged with gang assault, criminal possession of a weapon and assault.
Astimbay also was slapped with manslaughter, police said.
Staten Island
A city bus driver was attacked by an enraged man whose mother had just crashed her car into the bus in St. George, authorities said.
Jonathan Rosado, 23, was a passenger in his mom’s car when the accident happened around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday on Bay Street near Minthorne Street, cops said.
When Rosado’s mother and the bus driver started arguing over who was at fault, Rosado stepped in and punched the driver in the face, cops added.
Rosado was arrested yesterday and charged with felony assault.
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Two suspected drug dealers were nabbed with more than 1,000 anti-anxiety pills in Westerleigh, authorities said.
Frank Colella and Steve Frisby, both 36, were picked up Friday at 5:40 p.m. by narcotics investigators who had spotted them with the Xanax pills in a 2011 Honda Accord parked on Willowbrook Road near Watchogue Road, court papers state.
The Bronx
Police are looking for help in locating a missing Van Nest teen, cops said.
Martha Ruiz (pictured) was last seen Sunday at 1:30 a.m. leaving her home on Van Nest Avenue near Melville Street.
The 14-year-old is 4-foot-11, 110 pounds and does not have a history of running away, cops said.
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Cops are looking for a mugger who yanked a necklace off a woman in Belmont.
The 22-year-old victim was walking near Crotona Avenue and East 179th Street on July 12 at 7:15 a.m. when the thug approached and snatched the jewelry, cops said.
Brooklyn
A reckless driver smashed his vehicle into a parked car in Park Slope and then fled the scene, police sources said.
The driver was zooming the wrong way up 15th Street near Seventh Avenue when he plowed into a 74-year-old woman’s parked car on July 15, sources said.
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An armed man yesterday held up four Bensonhurst stores while driving a stolen vehicle — and heartlessly abandoned his mother’s dog as he fled the scene of the final robbery, cops said.
After robbing a grocery store on 75th Street, near 20th Avenue, around 2:20 p.m. masked gunman Denis Kharitonob, 25, fled on foot after cops arrived at the scene — leaving the helpless pooch in the vehicle.
He was nabbed a block away. The dog was later returned unharmed.
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An armed trio stole more than $500 in electronics from a teen in Williamsburg, authorities said.
The 17-year-old victim was sitting in a park near Wallabout Street and Lee Avenue at about 9:40 a.m. July 17 when another teen walked up, flashed a gray revolver and snarled, “I’ll let you have your life. Give me all your stuff,’’ cops said.
The gunman then took the teen’s $300 Sidekick phone and $250 Nintendo DS game console and ran off with two accomplices who had been acting as lookouts, the cops said.
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A crook swiped five bikes, valued at $3,800, from a Williamsburg garage, authorities said.
Three of the bike owners went to the Meserole Street garage near Union Avenue early on July 17 and found that the chain locks securing their bicycles had been cut and their rides were gone.