Queens
A patient escaped a Queens Village mental hospital Tuesday by jumping a fence but was nabbed Wednesday, cops said.
Clifford Brown hopped a chain-link fence on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Facility on Winchester Boulevard near Union Turnpike at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, and fled into nearby Alley Pond Park, officials said.
Brown, 27, who suffers from schizophrenia, was found in good health Wednesday, cops said.
Manhattan
Feds busted the “Gatsby Bandit” bank robber Tuesday after a relative alerted cops, authorities said.
Patrick Considine, 48, was taken into custody and charged with knocking off the HSBC branch at 101 W. 14th St. in Greenwich Village last week, officials said.
He’s also being investigated in connection with two other bank robberies, both in Queens, at the Santander branch at 83-20 Roosevelt Ave. in Jackson Heights and the Investors branch at 31-01 Broadway in Astoria.
The robber in those cases donned a 1920s Gatsby-style cap.
A Considine relative “had seen a news report on recent bank robberies, and identified Considine as the individual depicted in some of the surveillance photographs in that news report,” according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Kevin Coughlin.
Considine allegedly copped to those robberies to the relative in a chat they had last Thursday, Coughlin wrote.
The family member gave investigators Considine’s cellphone number, and authorities traced it to cell-transmission towers near the HSBC branch before and after the robbery, according to the affidavit.
The HSBC robber had slipped a teller a handwritten note that read, “This is a robbery,” and got away with $1,267.
A thief stole an air conditioner and the drapes from a Kips Bay apartment, cops said Wednesday.
The 44-year-old tenant noticed her air conditioner missing from her window the morning of May 28 as she was cleaning and preparing to move out of her apartment on East 25th Street near Second Avenue, cops said.
The thief took her A/C, curtains, a can of paint and other items, cops said.
The woman also reported that the lock on her mailbox had been tampered with, cops said.
A woman was choked by her older brother at the Union Square subway station, cops said.
The 28-year-old victim was waiting on the platform for an L train when she got into an argument with her sibling, Sydney Aime, 29, of Brooklyn, at about 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, police said.
Aime was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment, cops said.
Brooklyn
A hammer-wielding burglar smashed a jewelry-store window in Brighton Beach and stole $15,500 worth of valuables, cops said.
The man was caught on surveillance video walking up to the Jewelry Expert on Brighton Beach Avenue near Brighton 3rd Street holding a hammer in his right hand and breaking the storefront window on May 28 at about 10:30 a.m., sources said.
The suspect removed four bracelets from the display case and then hopped into his Mitsubishi Lancer, which had a broken rear window, and took off, sources said.
Staten Island
Two men pulled over on a driving infraction were caught with stolen credit cards and burglary tools, a Criminal Court complaint states.
Gregory Velez, 24, was driving a 2005 Chevrolet Malibu with Jason Rodriguez, 25, in the passenger seat when they were pulled over for failing to signal a right turn Monday morning on Shafter and Dewey avenues in Great Kills, the complaint states.
Velez, who was driving with a suspended license, also was busted for having two stolen credit cards in his possession that linked him to a theft from the previous day, the complaint said.
Rodriguez, who also had two stolen credit cards from the same theft, spewed obscenities at the officer and said, “This is my house . . . you can’t do this,” the complaint states.
The credit cards were stolen from a BMW on Monday at about 10:30 a.m., the complaint states.
Rodriguez and Velez had burglary tools in their possession, the complaint said.
They were charged with criminal possession of stolen property and attempted petit larceny.
In addition, Velez was charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
Rodriguez also was charged with obstructing governmental administration and disorderly conduct.