Metro

Daily Blotter

Brooklyn

■ Police released a sketch of a suspect in the snatching of an elderly man’s wallet outside a Bedford-Stuyvesant food pantry.

The 73-year-old victim was in front of the Campaign Against Hunger at Fulton and Hull streets at noon on April 4 when a man came up from behind and swiped a wallet from his back pocket, cops said.

The robber, who fled with $10, is described as 6-foot-1, 25 to 30 years old with a thin build, cops said.


The Bronx

■ Police say they’ve arrested both suspects in a murder last year in Belmont.

Matthew Simmons, 30, was found shot in the chest June 16, 2013, at Prospect Avenue near East 181st Street. Police and EMS personnel rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, where he died nine days later, cops said.

Police arrested Mattiyas Letang Thursday after apprehending Tyrell Nash, 20, on April 3, authorities said.

Nash was charged with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.

Letang was charged with murder, robbery and criminal use of a firearm.


Manhattan

■ A woman stole two Rolex watches and more than $45,000 in cash from a man’s room at a posh Chelsea hotel as he slept Friday, cops said.

The 35-year-old man told police he invited the 5-foot-2 brunette back to his room at the Dream Downtown Hotel on West 16th Street near Ninth Avenue at about 2 a.m.

When he awoke, a $46,500 Sky Dweller Rolex and a GMT Rolex worth $11,000 were missing, cops said.

He told police $46,500 in cash also was missing.

Last month, another Dream Downtown Hotel guest was fleeced of his money and passport after bringing a woman up to his room, police said.

■ A Corrections officer was caught boozed up behind the wheel in Tryon Park, cops said.

Corrections Officer Ivelisse Santana, 35, was with Christopher Cruz, 23, in a tow truck Friday at about 2:45 a.m. when cops spotted the blue Dodge Ram crash into a tree while going in the wrong direction down a one-way path, police said.

When police approached the vehicle, they said they saw the duo attempting to switch seats.

Cruz and Santana refused to take breathalyzer tests at the scene, cops said.

Santana was charged with DWI and refusal to take a breath test, cops said.

Cruz, who has a long rap sheet, was charged with aggravated unlicensed operator, driving while ability impaired, driving without a license and refusal to take a breath test, cops said.

Cruz has had his license suspended 77 times.

In November 2009, he nearly ran over a mother and 3-year-old boy after driving over a median onto a sidewalk on the Grand Concourse while fleeing cops, police sources said.

He was charged with driving a vehicle without a license, reckless driving, false impersonation and aggravated unlicensed operator, cops said.

■ A 23-year-old man was assaulted by two pimps in Midtown after he rebuffed their offer for a prostitute, sources said.

The victim was leaving a bar near West 34th Street on March 28 at about 3:30 a.m. when the pimps him, sources said.

He followed them toward New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania where he ultimately declined the solicitation, sources said.

“You owe me $10 for wasting my time,” one of the pimps said before threatening to stab him, sources said.

The victim tried to walk away, but one of the men punched him and knocked out his front tooth, sources said. The pimps fled with $10.


Queens

■ The owner of a jewelry store was robbed at gunpoint of a $70,000 watch and $5,000 in cash in front of his Fresh Meadows home, sources said.

The owner of American Gold Refinery on West 47th Street in the Diamond District had just returned home from work on April 7 and was retrieving things from his car trunk on 184th Street near Union Turnpike at about 7:40 p.m. when a man pulled a gun on him, cops said.

“Don’t move, I’ll shoot you,” the robber said. “Give me your watch. Give me everything you got.”

He gave the robber his Audemars Piguet watch, a cellphone, and the cash, sources said.

The thief then fled.

■ This woman allegedly threw a cup of coffee in a straphanger’s face on a Forest Hills train, cops said.

The suspect was on a Jamaica-bound F train at 71st Street and Continental Avenue April 2 at 6 p.m. when the 54-year-old victim bumped into her, cops said.

The 5-foot-1 suspect then threw the coffee and punched her in the face before she fled, cops said.

The victim suffered minor injuries.