Queens
An 18-year-old man’s Fourth of July plans were ruined when cops raided his Ozone Park pad and confiscated his stash of illegal fireworks, police said Saturday.
Officers executing a search warrant at Jameel Dissoongyal’s home uncovered more than $3,000 worth of fireworks Monday, according to police.
The haul included 16 boxes of flaming balls, two boxes of artillery shells, battery shots, fire candles, Roman candles and grenade crackers, cops said.
A Queens Village man threatened to blow up police precinct station houses because he was upset about a few summonses he received, cops said Saturday.
Richard Bolton, 30, dialed 911 at 3:20 a.m. Friday and told a dispatcher he was strapped with a bomb on 165th Street in Jamaica and planned to blow up a precinct headquarters nearby, police sources said.
Bolton told the dispatcher he was prepared to head out to Long Island and bomb a few more police station houses there, cops said.
Nassau police arrested him at home, cops said.
Brooklyn
A man snatched electronics from three people exiting Williamsburg trains, police said Saturday.
The thief last struck June 20, when he swiped a Samsung Galaxy smartphone from a straphanger’s hands at midnight at Grand Street subway station near Christie Street, according to police.
The thief also snatched an iPod 2 from a woman at the northbound Graham Avenue subway station near Metropolitan Avenue at around 12:15 a.m. June 17, and the next day, another Samsung Galaxy phone on the southbound side of the same station, cops said.
Manhattan
This was one rough dance-off.
Cops on Saturday released video surveillance of a thug who beat a man to a pulp after an argument over a dance competition in Gramercy.
An Asian man in his early 20s approached the 18-year-old victim after the two quarreled over a dance-off on East 23rd Street near Third Avenue at around 9:40 p.m. May 10, according to police.
The thug clocked the victim in the jaw, fractured his eye socket, and left him bloodied with multiple lacerations to the head, cops said.