The Bronx
Police have charged a ma n with robbing a liquor store, but are still looking for his alleged accomplice.
Santos Rivera, 33, and another man walked into the Gana Wine store on Westchester Avenue near the Bruckner Expressway Service Road in the Woodstock section at 11:55 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
The accomplice pulled a gun and ordered a clerk to the floor while Rivera took $1,200 from the register before the two fled, police said.
Rivera was arrested Saturday and charged with robbery, grand larceny, possession of stolen property and menacing.
Cops on Sunday identified the man killed while riding his ATV through the streets of Riverdale over the weekend.
Anthony Perez, 31, a former doorman living in Yonkers, was on the Yamaha four-wheeler going north on Broadway at around 5:30 p.m. Saturday when he tried to pass a 2014 Ford Explorer turning left into a parking garage, police said.
The 40-year-old Ford driver didn’t see the illegal off-road vehicle and smashed into it, cops said.
The driver remained on the scene while police and paramedics worked on Perez, who was the ground, suffered severe trauma.
Perez was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Yonkers, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Manhattan
An off-duty city sheriff’s investigator was allegedly so drunk that he fell asleep after crashing his car on the Upper West Side — and didn’t even wake up when the vehicle caught fire, sources said Sunday.
Vernon Edwards, 56, was found snoozing behind the wheel of his smashed-up vehicle on West 95th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues at around 6 a.m. Saturday, the sources said.
Firefighters discovered the dozing man after responding to a call about a car fire, law-enforcement sources said.
Police later allegedly found a gravity knife on Edwards’ belt.
Edwards, a fraud investigator, was charged with weapon possession and reckless endangerment, as well as drunken driving, police said.
The New York City Sheriff’s Office investigates civil and financial crimes. Records list Edwards as a fraud investigator.
A sneaky thief posing as a Manhattan theater cleaner cleaned out a famed movie house next to The Plaza hotel, cops said Sunday.
The thief walked into the Paris Theatre on East 58th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues at around noon May 17 and pretended to be a cleaner employed by the place, police said.
He roamed freely inside the movie house, known for its independent and foreign films, before waltzing into a manager’s office, cops said.
The thief snatched $6,239 from an unlocked safe there. He also grabbed a skateboard and a backpack full of cash and then fled, according to police.
The thief is believed to be in his 20s, about 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds.
The Paris Theatre is known for attracting intellectuals with its artistic and foreign films, including those by award-winning writer and director Federico Fellini.
Brooklyn
A man was shot dead in East Flatbush on Sunday.
Investigators believe that the 27-year-old victim was in a car with three men when the vehicle stopped at East 96th Street and Winthrop Street at around 6:15 a.m., sources said.
The victim got out of the car and had an argument with another man, who pumped several bullets into his chest, leg and hand.
Police responded to a call of shots fired, but before they arrived, the victim’s friends had gotten him back into their car and were racing to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Investigators are uncertain about what led to the killing because witnesses were not cooperating, sources said.
Queens
Cops are looking for four men who robbed and assaulted another guy outside a deli in Jamaica on Sunday.
The thieves walked up to the bodega on Rockaway Boulevard near 134th Street at around 2 a.m. and demanded cash from the 49-year-old victim who was outside the store.
They then snatched his cellphone and $400, beat him and fled, cops said.
The man suffered minor injuries, officials said.
All four thugs are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s.
The one who stole the victim’s belongings was wearing a red jacket and a red baseball cap.
Staten Island
A city math teacher swiped about $550 in clothing from the J.C. Penney in New Springville, police said Sunday.
Stacy Grant, 52, grabbed the garments inside the department store at the Staten Island Mall and tried to leave at around 4 p.m. Saturday without paying for them, cops said.
She was arrested and charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
Grant’s LinkedIn profile says she has taught math and classes for kids under in-school suspension for 25 years.