Two crooks (above) are wanted for trying to rob a Kew Gardens Hills bank, police said.
The suspect (above) stalked the victim near Westchester and Metropolitan avenues at around 5:55 p.m. Monday and struck up a conversation with him, cops said.
Brooklyn
A bandit was busted after he held up a Brighton Beach grocery store, authorities said.
Jonathan Mansila, 23, went into the market on Brighton Beach Avenue near Brighton Fifth Street at 12:25 a.m. Monday and demanded cash, according to court documents.
The crook wore a black handkerchief over his face and pointed a boxcutter at the clerk saying, “Give me your money,” the court records claim.
He then allegedly shoved the man, held the blade up to him and grabbed cash from the register.
Mansila was arrested on a slew of charges, including robbery, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
Staten Island
A cashier at the Target in Charleston was busted for ripping off more than $1,500 from the store, authorities said.
Ellison Legall, 22, pulled his scam at the Veterans Road department store over nearly three weeks by either changing the value of items or simply not scanning them, court documents say.
He was caught on surveillance video four times starting Feb. 23, when he reduced the value of purchased items by $280, court records show.
He also struck on Feb. 28, March 4 and, finally, March 13, the court papers claim.
In total, he cost the store $1586.28, records show. Legall was arrested at the store Monday and charged with grand larceny, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
Queens
Two crooks (left) are wanted for trying to rob a Kew Gardens Hills bank, police said.
The suspects, in their 20s, went into the Chase branch on Main Street near 72nd Avenue at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday, and one passed a demand note to the teller, police said.
The other suspect hung back and waited at the customer- service area, cops said.
But the teller simply walked away, and the would-be robbers fled empty-handed.
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A hothead went berserk and attacked a good Samaritan in Ridgewood, authorities said.
The victim was trying to break up a fight between two men on Putnam Avenue near Onderdonk Avenue at about 4:45 a.m. March 15 when Joseph Cruz, 36, came up behind him and punched him in the back of the head, according to court papers.
Cruz was collared on charges of assault and harassment, records show.
The Bronx
A 14-year-old boy was sexually assaulted by a man who followed him into a Parkchester building, police said.
The suspect stalked the victim near Westchester and Metropolitan avenues at around 5:55 p.m. Monday and struck up a conversation with him, cops said.
When the boy entered an apartment building, the predator followed and viciously attacked him, police said.
The suspect, believed to be in his 20s, fled toward Westchester Avenue, with a long black umbrella in hand, police said. He is 5-foot-8, 180 pounds, and was wearing a black jacket, a brown hoodie, blue jeans, brown work boots, and a brown baseball cap with a yellow brim and a yellow Yankee logo.