Brooklyn
Two nattily dressed thieves swiped four boxes of cigars from the Fort Greene cigar lounge run by Brooklyn Nets announcer David Diamante, cops said.
The two suspects broke into Diamante’s Brooklyn Cigar Lounge on South Oxford Street through its front door last Friday at around 4:45 p.m., about 15 minutes before it was set to open, according to police.
Video-surveillance footage shows one of the suspects in a cardigan sweater with an open, button-down shirt and white shoes, while the other was wearing a white sweater and a dark fedora.
A man stole a woman’s identity to score prescription painkillers in her name, police said.
He began to use the 55-year-old woman’s identity Dec. 5 at a pharmacy in Sheepshead Bay, cops said.
“Her doctor asked why she was receiving prescriptions for oxycodone, which he didn’t prescribe [to her],” a police source said.
The suspect would call in the prescriptions to various pharmacies in Brooklyn and Queens and pick up the medications in person using her name.
Manhattan
A 77-year-old man was randomly assaulted in Midtown, cops said.
The elderly man was standing on Eighth Avenue near West 40th Street on April 17 at about 4:20 p.m. when Devon Rhoden, 30, punched and pushed him, cops said.
The victim suffered shoulder and upper back pain.
Rhoden was charged with felony assault because of the victim’s age, cops said.
A man cashed nearly $10,000 in checks he stole from a bank customer in February, cops said.
The 50-year-old customer at a TD Bank on Feb. 7 when the suspect grabbed the victim’s checkbook when he wasn’t looking, police said.
Cops say the thief cashed three checks totaling almost $10,000 in a spending spree across Manhattan.
Police describe the suspect as in his 50s, 5-foot-8 with salt-and-pepper hair.
Queens
Two men are wanted for impersonating cops and then tying up their victims in a string of robberies, cops said.
The crooks hit three businesses between March 8 and April 1 in Flushing, Woodhaven, and Astoria, cops said.
They claimed to be cops while flashing guns and shields. They tied up their victims and fled with cash and electronics, police said.
Surveillance video from the Body Works Salon on Jamaica Avenue near 80th Street shows the robbers entering the shop March 12 at about 10:30 p.m., cops said.
The men can be seen putting on similar jackets beforehand and casing the area with a handgun drawn.
One of the robbers also is seen on video arguing with a victim and attempting to tie her up.
The robbers fled with a Samsung cellphone and $180, cops said.
On March 8, they robbed a business on Cherry Avenue near Union Street around 5:40 p.m., making off with two cellphones.
The men also hit the Charming Spa Salon on Steinway Street near 31st Avenue on April 1 at about 12:15 a.m. They fled with $200, three cellphones, an iPad and a laptop, cops said.
An FDNY firefighter was busted for allegedly choking his girlfriend in Flushing on Monday.
Michael Shields, 32, was charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment, police said.
The girlfriend suffered minor injuries, authorities said.
The Bronx
A man broke into a commercial vehicle in University Heights and looted it, police said.
The suspect entered the unlocked Ford van parked in front of 1639 Nelson Ave. on March 28 and made off with several checkbooks, a Samsonite briefcase, a masonry tool valued at $400 and a set of locks worth $175, cops said.