The Bronx
Police have released this sketch of a man suspected of groping two women in University Heights.
The creep followed the first victim into an apartment building at East 190th Street and University Avenue at around 1 a.m. Dec. 5 and grabbed her as she was walking up a stairwell, cops said.
The 20-year-old woman scurried away from him and ran into her apartment.
The struck again a few minutes later, this time groping a 40-year-old woman, cops said.
Both victims were unharmed.
A day-care worker stole a pair of gold earrings from a toddler in Hunts Point, authorities said.
Desire Santiago, 21, removed the bling from the ears of an 18-month-old child she was watching on Dec. 5, cops said.
When the girl’s mother brought her home, she noticed the hoop earrings were missing.
Police then checked the day-care center’s video surveillance and saw Santiago allegedly removing and pocketing the items.
She was arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a weapon.
Manhattan
A gun-toting thief attempted to rob a GameStop store in Hamilton Heights, authorities said.
The suspect walked into the store on Broadway near 145th Street at around 9 p.m. Nov. 26, pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded cash, cops said.
The would-be thief eventually fled the store empty handed and was caught on video surveillance entering a nearby subway station, cops said.
He is described as standing about 5-foot-10 and weighing 200 pounds.
A man swiped a credit card from someone at a supermarket on the Lower East Side and spent hundreds of dollars on a shopping spree in East Harlem, cops said.
The crook first snatched the credit card from a Fine Fare supermarket on Clinton Street sometime on Nov. 10 before making his way to Target on East 117th Street and Pleasant Avenue later that day, cops said.
The thief used the stolen card to buy more than $700 worth of merchandise, according to police.
The suspect was caught on video surveillance leaving the store with shopping bags nearly three hours later.
Two transit cops busted a pair of teenage fare beaters at a Jamaica subway station before finding a loaded gun on one of the men, authorities said.
Bo Bannister, 16, and Daquan Monroe, 17 were entering the Jamaica Center station at around 1 p.m. Tuesday when they both walked through the turnstile on a single MetroCard swipe, cops said.
The two observant officers quickly grabbed the teens before allegedly finding a loaded Bryco Jennings 9mm handgun in one of their bags.
Bannister and Monroe were charged with possession of a weapon and theft of services
This coldblooded thug violently snatched an elderly woman’s purse in Harlem, authorities said.
The 76-year-old victim was coming out of her apartment in a building at West 141st Street and Lenox Avenue at around 11:30 a.m. Dec. 4 when the suspect came up to her, pushed her to the ground and ripped the bag from her shoulder, authorities said.
The thief, whose image was caught by a surveillance camera, fled the building with the bag, which contained around $500, cops said.
Staten Island
Police have identified the suspect who they believe murdered a man in New Brighton, authorities said.
Christopher Harrell, 24, allegedly shot Anthony Pollard, also 24, as the victim sat in the driver’s seat of a parked car with a woman on Forest Avenue at around 4 a.m., Dec. 1, authorities said.
Harrell is believed to have pulled up next to Pollard’s vehicle, got out and blasted him in the chest before speeding away in a white Audi, according to cops.
The victim’s stunned companion called 911, and Pollard was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he died.
Harrell is described as about 6-feet-tall and approximately 180 pounds, according to authorities.