Brooklyn
Cops released a sketch (pictured) of a hulking thug who slashed and raped a Parks Department worker Thursday at a Brooklyn playground, authorities said.
The heavyset, 5-foot-8 rapist — dressed all in red and riding a red bicycle — slashed the single mom of three with a boxcutter in the 9 a.m. attack in a building housing bathrooms and Parks Department offices at St. Andrew’s Playground on Atlantic and Kingston avenues.
The victim was treated at Kings County Hospital, where doctors stitched up gashes on her arm.
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A Bedford-Stuyvesant john returned home after a go-around with prostitutes and was robbed by two gunmen, police sources said yesterday.
The 46-year-old carnal-pleasure seeker returned to his apartment on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in the wee hours Wednesday and was accosted at gunpoint by two thugs.
“The bitches gave you up,” one snarled, then tied up the victim and looted his apartment of electronics and jewels.
Staten Island
Wave goodbye to this crime wave.
A prowler and two cohorts were captured in a New Brighton burglary spree, police said.
Robert Hambrick, 21, first struck sometime around June 2, authorities said, when he slipped into a house at Bard Avenue and Walnut Street, swiped valuables and fled in the homeowner’s car.
He struck several more times, pulling off his latest heist on Aug. 4, cops said.
He, his brother, Bobby, and a pal, Keith Hassel, 34, then brought a hoard of stolen loot to a pawn shop, detectives said.
Robert was arrested and allegedly confessed to police, and his brother and Hassel were then picked up.
The trio was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, and Robert with burglary, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Manhattan
An Upper East Side shoplifter was busted after she assaulted a pharmacy employee, authorities said yesterday.
Dayse Rangel, 46, put shampoo bottles in a bag and walked past the registers to the door of the CVS on Third Avenue near 91st Street at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
As employees tried to stop her, she jabbed one in the neck with a coffee stirrer, inflicting minor injuries, cops said.
Rangel was arrested and charged with robbery, said a spokesman for DA Cyrus Vance.
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A vagrant was busted for attempting to rape a homeless woman in Central Park, police said yesterday.
Thomas Olsen, 52, allegedly came up to a 33- year-old female acquaintance at East Drive and Transverse Road 4 at 11:15 a.m. last Saturday.
He placed a hand over her mouth and squeezed her neck, sources said, then forced her to pull down her panties.
The victim managed to break his grasp and flee, police said. Olsen was picked up and charged with attempted rape.
Queens
Back off, creep!
A straphanger was arrested for rubbing his crotch against a woman aboard a subway train in Long Island City, authorities said yesterday.
Rosalio Tiu, 21, allegedly began brushing up against the victim on a train at Queens Plaza at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday.
A cop on the train arrested Tiu, who was charged with sexual abuse and harassment, said a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.
Bronx
A rageaholic was sent to the slammer after slamming his wife in their Melrose home, authorities said yesterday.
Julio Neri, 20, started hitting his spouse in the home at East 153rd Street and Morris Avenue at noon Tuesday, cops said, then allegedly dragged her by the hair and shoved her against a door.
Neri was arrested that day and charged with assault, said a spokesman for DA Robert Johnson. The victim suffered bruising and swelling.