Manhattan
Police are looking for a Columbia University student who disappeared last week, sources said.
Jiwon Lee, 29, who is in her fourth year studying dental medicine, was last seen April 1 at about 8:30 p.m. inside her apartment on West 98th Street near Broadway, cops said.
Lee’s cellphone was last tracked near the George Washington Bridge, but there is no video surveillance available from the bridge, a source said.
Searches around the bridge conducted by Aviation, Harbor Patrol and K-9 turned up nothing, sources said.
Her brother, Matt Lee, 25, has started a Web site for Jiwon Lee on GoFundMe.com and is seeking donations for a private investigator to assist the NYPD in its search efforts.
The site has already raised $28,463.
Her brother told Columbia’s University Herald that a 30-minute call to an unidentified person the night of her disappearance raises questions. “We think that’s very suspicious,” Lee said.
A man was caught driving in the wrong lane in the Holland Tunnel as he left lower Manhattan, police said.
Michael Petit-Frere, 28, of Easton, Pa., was driving a black BMW in a lane that was closed to traffic Sunday at about 6 a.m., cops said.
Officers tried to pull him over, but he ignored their lights and sirens, leading Port Authority Police on a chase through Jersey City and onto the New Jersey Turnpike, where he finally stopped, cops said.
Petit-Frere refused to get out of the car, yelled, and flailed his arms while officers pulled him out, sources said.
He reeked of booze, slurred his speech, then failed a sobriety test, but not before he lost his pants, sources said.
“His pants were open when they pulled him over and did fall down,” a source said.
Petit-Frere also was wanted on a warrant in East Orange, NJ, and was arrested once in Florida, sources said.
This time, he was charged with DWI, eluding cops, resisting arrest, bail jumping, driving an uninsured and unregistered vehicle and reckless driving.
A cab driver was taken for a ride by a blond clubgoer who dipped into the popular Marquee nightclub in Chelsea and skipped out on her fare, sources said.
The woman called for the car service to pick her up at Second Avenue and East 55th Street, and asked to be taken to the club on 10th Avenue near West 27th Street on March 27 at about 1 a.m., sources added.
She said she needed to go into the club to get her credit card and promised to return to pay her fare. The gullible hack let her out after taking her phone number, sources said.
The driver repeatedly called the number the woman used when she requested the car service, but no one answered and he was unable to collect his $32 fare, sources said.
No arrests have been made.
The suspect is about 5 feet 7, 135 pounds, with blond hair and brown eyes.
Brooklyn
An off-duty cop was busted for alleged drunken driving after plowing into another car in East New York and fleeing the scene, sources said.
Shieed Haniff, 30, crashed his vehicle at the corner of Crescent Street and Liberty Avenue just before midnight Sunday, sources added.
It was not immediately clear how many people were in the other car, but no one was seriously injured, police sources said.
Haniff allegedly took off, driving erratically and fast enough to draw the attention of on-duty cops, who pulled him over, sources added.
He was arrested and charged with drunken driving, reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident and refusing to take a breath test.
Queens
Cops are looking for a man wanted for robbing a Woodside bank Monday morning, police said.
The middle-aged suspect with gray hair, all black clothing and sunglasses, walked into the Astoria Federal Bank on Woodside Avenue, near 61st Street, just after 10 a.m., cops said.
He passed the teller a note demanding cash and got away with an undetermined amount of money, cops added.
No injuries were reported and no arrests have been made.