Queens
A sexual predator raped a woman in Corona on Tuesday night, police said.
The 32-year-old victim was on her way home just before midnight when the fiend came up from behind on 46th Avenue near Junction Boulevard and ordered her to “keep walking,” cops said.
When the predator got the woman to the corner, he sprayed her in the face with an unknown substance, cops said.
The woman bit the attacker before he fled, according to police.
The victim was treated at a hospital and released.
The rapist is believed to be in his 30s, about 5-foot-6 and wore his hair in a ponytail.
Manhattan
A Parks Department worker attacked his wife and choked and punched his 11-year-old son on a bus in Stuyvesant Town after they woke him when they reached their stop, police said.
Maintenance worker Luis Freytes, 30, was fast asleep on the bus around 1:20 a.m. Saturday when his wife tried to rouse him near First Avenue and East 14th Street, cops said.
As Freytes exited with his family, he shoved his wife and she fell to the ground, police added.
The boy tried to intervene and Freytes choked his son and punched the child in the face and stomach before fleeing, cops said.
Cops found him nearby and hit him with a slew of charges, including assault, criminal obstruction of breathing and endangering the welfare of a child.
The woman sustained a cut on her face, but the boy had no immediate signs of serious injury, police said.
The Bronx
A thief and her accomplice plucked a woman’s wallet from her purse while she was grocery shopping in Melrose, police said Wednesday.
The suspect and her pal hovered around the customer’s cart while examining produce until the shopper turned her back, police said.
The sticky-fingered shopper snatched the wallet while her pal acted as a lookout inside the Associated supermarket on Third Avenue, near East 167th Street, surveillance video shows.
The duo ran from the store after the heist, which occurred June 20 at about 3:45 p.m., cops said.
The first suspect appears to be in her mid-30s, around 5-foot-4, 130 pounds with dark skin and long black braids.
She was wearing white glasses, a tan blouse and white pants.
The second suspect is about 5-foot-5 and 150 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a black Yankees cap, black glasses, a green checkered button-down shirt, white cargo shorts and white sneakers.
A teen gunman who fatally shot a 24-year-old rival and wounded the victim’s 17-year-old pal in Belmont has been arrested, authorities said.
Deyshawn Pantoja, 18, faces murder and assault charges for gunning down Leonard Hines and wounding the victim’s pal on East 187th Street, near Bathgate Avenue, at 10:45 p.m., June 4, officials said.
Both victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital. Hines, of Yonkers, died from a gunshot wound to the chest. His buddy, whose name has not been released, was grazed on the right arm by a bullet.
Brooklyn
A thug snatched a woman’s pocketbook in a Dyker Heights Dunkin’ Donuts and pulled a knife when she resisted, authorities said.
The 25-year-old victim was seated at a table in the coffee shop on Seventh Avenue near 64th Street on June 19 at 10:45 p.m. when the suspect walked by and swiped her bag from the tabletop, cops said.
The plucky woman grabbed the crook’s arm as he tried to flee, but he whipped out a knife and threatened her, police said.
The woman relented and the mugger escaped with the purse, which contained credit cards and cash, officials said.
The victim was not harmed, cops said.
The suspect was last seen wearing a red New York Giants cap, a gray T-shirt, and blue jeans.
A man was gunned down in Bedford-Stuyvesant, officials said.
Anthony Jackson, Jr., 27, was shot once in the chest in front of a building on Willoughby Avenue on Tuesday at about 10:50 p.m., officials said.
EMS pronounced Jackson dead at the scene.
The victim has a history of arrests that include contempt, forgery and possession of stolen property, sources said.