Brooklyn
We have a winner!
A thief broke into a Stuyvesant Heights deli, stole cash and scratch-off lottery tickets and later cashed in the winning ones, cops said.
Police say he climbed to the rooftop of the deli on Malcolm X Boulevard near Stuyvesant Avenue, carved a hole in the ceiling and dropped down.
He swiped lottery tickets, cigarettes, $2,500 from the register and $5,980 from an ATM machine, cops said.
He then apparently did some serious scratching, because he later entered other delis and cashed the lottery winners, cops said.
He was seen on video surveillance at a deli in Ridgewood, Queens, with scratch-offs in hand.
The Bronx
A would-be bank robber threatened to shoot a teller at a Parkchester branch, cops said.
He entered the Chase branch on Castle Hill Avenue on March 31 and passed a note to a teller reading, “Give us the money or we are start blasting away [sic] no dye packs no f-–king tricks we know where you live.”
The teller left the window and the robber fled empty-handed.
A thief snatched a 59-year-old woman’s iPhone on an MTA bus in Bedford Park, authorities said.
The robber and the victim were aboard a northbound BX2 bus at about 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 25 when he ripped the iPhone 4S from her hand and fled through the exit door at Bedford Park Boulevard East and the Grand Concourse, cops said.
The thief is believed to be 19 to 25 years old, and was last seen wearing a black hoodie, gray jacket with black sleeves, and black jeans.
A pervert groped a 13-year-old girl aboard a No. 4 train and fled at the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium station, authorities said.
The 13-year-old boarded the train at 125th Street in Harlem at about 5:45 p.m. on March 26, cops said.
The perv, already on board, approached the teen and began groping her, according to police.
She exited the train at 161st Street followed by the perv, who after a few seconds fled, cops said.
The victim was not injured.
Queens
Two livery cabbies assaulted a fellow driver at Kennedy Airport after one of them pulled a knife, sources said.
Junior Rowe, 30, and Wayne Walker, 41, got into a violent argument with another driver outside Terminal 8 at about 4:30 p.m. last Friday, the sources said.
Port Authority cops came by, and the victim told them that the suspects had tried to stab him, the sources said.
At that point, Rowe jumped into his Ford Taurus and sped off, nearly running over two officers, the sources said.
But he got caught in airport traffic and was arrested, the sources said.
Cops searched Walker’s car, found a knife and arrested him, the sources said.
Rowe was charged with assault on a police officer, menacing, reckless endangerment, obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.
Walker was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
Staten Island
Police arrested a man for drunken driving and found a billy club and a dagger in his car, Criminal Court papers state.
Vincint Scala, 19, blew a red light near West Caswell Avenue and Farraday Street in Graniteville at around 1:45 a.m. on April 4, the court complaint asserts.
Police followed his 2005 gray Chevy Suburban for several blocks as he sped through the streets before finally pulling over for the officers, the complaint states.
The suspect reeked of alcohol and blew a .229 on a Breathalyzer, according to the sources.