Manhattan
A group of thieves used a construction site to break into a deli in Washington Heights, according to police.
The foursome crept into the work site on Wadsworth Avenue near West 182nd Street at around 1:30 a.m. Monday, and broke through a building’s side wall to get inside the bodega, police said.
The crew grabbed cash from the registers and the ATM and snatched cigarettes and scratch-off lottery tickets.
Brooklyn
Don’t forget the tequila!
A thief was caught on video surveillance as he burglarized a Mexican restaurant in Fort Greene — and he made sure to snatch a bottle of José Cuervo on his way out, cops said.
The thief broke into the eatery on Myrtle and Grand avenues at 7 a.m. last Friday, according to police.
He swiped $300 from a cash register and grabbed a bottle of the top-shelf liquor, cops said.
No arrests have been made.
A woman has been charged with the stabbing murder of her beau in a Brownsville apartment building, cops said.
Latrina Crocker, 45, attacked Michael Artist, 52, in the Brownsville Houses on Dumont Avenue at around 2 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The victim was found in the second-floor stairwell, bleeding from knife wounds to the chest and arm.
Artist was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Crocker has six prior arrests, five of which are sealed.
One was for a misdemeanor assault.
The deadly attack on her boyfriend was sparked by an argument, police said.
A gun-wielding teen wearing a hooded sweatshirt boasting, “Haters Make Me Famous” robbed a woman of her cellphone in East New York, police said.
The victim was walking into an apartment building on Hegemen Avenue near Van Siclen Avenue at around 7:15 p.m. Jan. 30, when the thug, estimated to be about 17 years old, pulled a black semiautomatic handgun on her, cops said.
The young robber then demanded the woman’s cellphone and she turned over her Samsung Galaxy, police added.
The thief fled and the victim was not injured, officials said.
The suspect is about 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds with brown eyes.
The Bronx
These guys must be serious gamers.
Two crooks ransacked and robbed a GameStop in Marble Hill, police said.
One of the masked thieves acted as a lookout on West 225th Street near Kingsbridge Road, while his accomplice walked into the store and pulled out a pistol at around 8 p.m. on Feb. 18, cops said.
The gunman gathered some 50 PlayStation 4 video games and stuffed them into a bag before walking out, police added.
The two employees in the store were not injured.