Cops are looking for the man in this picture (above), who they say beat and robbed a 69-year-old woman in Crown Heights.
Queens
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A man suspected of being the hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian in Briarwood early Saturday was arrested yesterday, police said.
Carl Alvear, 34, allegedly barreled into Latrisha Been, 31, near a Best Western hotel on the Van Wyck Expressway and 87th Avenue shortly before 4:50 a.m.
An unconscious Been was rushed to Jamaica Hospital suffering from severe head trauma, but doctors pronounced her dead on arrival, cops said.
Alvear, who was tracked down through his driver’s license, which he had left at the hotel, was charged with manslaughter, police said.
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A man is wanted for questioning after allegedly groping a woman in a Jackson Heights subway station, police said.
He is suspected of grabbing her buttocks as she exited an elevator in the Roosevelt Avenue subway station at 7:25 p.m. July 17, police said.
Investigators released the surveillance-video photo yesterday and described the suspect as standing about 6 feet tall and weighing approximately 200 pounds.
They added that he has a scar or some kind of skin condition on his left shoulder.
Brooklyn
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An off-duty traffic agent has been arrested and charged with assault for beating up her niece’s ex-boyfriend on a Williamsburg street, sources said.
Lucille Rodriguez, 42, allegedly attacked the 27-year-old on July 23. She was taken into custody Saturday and charged with assault.
Investigators said it was not immediately known what led up to the confrontation.
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Cops are looking for a man, who they say beat and robbed a 69-year-old woman in Crown Heights.
The victim was in an elevator in a building on St. John’s Place at 6:20 p.m. Friday, and when the door opened on the second floor, the suspect shoved her to the ground and began kicking and punching her, police said.
He then took off with her rings, chains and pendants, cops said.
The stocky suspect was described as about 5 feet, 9 inches in height and weighing approximately 185 pounds.
Staten Island
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An off-duty firefighter was busted for moonlighting — as a drug dealer, police said.
Christopher Lynaugh, 40, was spotted allegedly selling pills on Richmond Avenue near Travis Avenue in New Springville at 10:45 p.m. Saturday.
After officers cuffed him, he was found to be in possession of 105 oxycodone tablets and three Xanax pills.
He was charged with possession of a controlled substance and criminal sale of a controlled substance, cops said.
The Bronx
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A 22-year-old man has been arrested and charged in an early-morning mugging outside a Tremont lounge, police said.
Daquan Casserme allegedly jumped the 21-year-old victim on Carter Avenue at 3:30 a.m. July 13, punched him about the face and head and stole his backpack.
He was charged with second-degree robbery.
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A 34-year-old man is under arrest in the mugging of a stranger on his way to work in Highbridge, authorities said.
Jamel Bryant, 34, approached the victim at West 167th Street and Sedgwick Avenue at 9 a.m., Tuesday, a Criminal Court complaint says.
He grabbed the man’s hand, said, “I need the money,” and reached into the man’s pocket, court papers state.
When the startled man resisted, Bryant repeatedly punched him in the face, knocking him to the pavement, according to the court documents.
He then grabbed the man’s wallet, took out his cash and angrily threw the billfold on top of his vanquished prey, the records show.
Bryant was charged with robbery, grand larceny, assault, possession of stolen property and, perhaps because of the billfold toss, harassment.