Brooklyn
A thief is wanted for at least two gunpoint robberies, authorities said.
The crook first barged into the Sip & Chat restaurant on Avenue D in East Flatbush shortly after midnight last Thursday with a gun in each hand and ordered all of the workers into a back room, cops said.
He fled empty-handed after becoming agitated.
The next day, he knocked off Carrasco’s Grocery Store on Flatbush Avenue in Ditmas Park at around 3:30 p.m., again toting guns in both hands, cops said.
The gunman made off with about $600.
A quick-thinking woman snapped a photo of a man (right) who allegedly burglarized her Fort Greene apartment after she spotted the suspect on the street wearing her boyfriend’s stolen clothes, cops said.
The suspect broke into the couple’s Adelphi Street pad through a rear window and grabbed some items at about 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 15, according to police.
The victim was inside a Myrtle Avenue deli near her apartment sometime after the burglary when she recognized the clothing the thief was wearing as her boyfriend’s.
She snapped a candid photo of the suspect and gave it to police.
A woman was raped and four others robbed at gunpoint after a group of men forced their way into a Bedford-Stuyvesant tattoo parlor, cops said.
The three suspects asked to be buzzed into the building on Ralph and Jefferson avenues around 2 a.m. last Friday. Once inside, they forced their way inside the shop and herded the victims into a back room and made everyone lie down on the floor, cops said.
The thieves stole all of their valuables, including wallets, cash, cellphones, a gold chain and watch, and multiple credit cards, police said.
One of the intruders then grabbed the female victim and raped her, according to police.
One of the attackers was wearing a grey hoodie and blue jeans, cops said.
Another had short hair and wore a beige and orange sweatshirt with purple, yellow and red sneakers.
The third suspect was armed with a silver pistol and is described as being in his 20s, standing about 5-foot-9 and weighing about 170 pounds.
No arrests have been made.
Manhattan
A 19-year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a yellow cab driver in Chelsea, authorities said.
The boozed-up woman was in and out of consciousness near 12th Avenue and West 26th Street around 5:15 a.m. Tuesday when she was in the cab, according to police.
She told investigators she woke up in a Hess gas station with her pants down and the driver on top of her, sources said.
She was able to fight off her attacker and quickly jumped outside where she spotted an on-duty sanitation worker who helped her as the cabby fled, cops said.
She was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital, cops said.
Sources said the victim was later being uncooperative with cops. The driver of the yellow cab has not yet been identified, but police are still searching for him.
The Bronx
A punk is wanted for pepper-spraying an elderly man in Mott Haven, authorities said.
The attacker was seen on surveillance video pacing back and forth near the corner of East 149th Street and Brook Avenue at around 11:45 a.m. Monday before approaching an 87-year-old man and spraying him in the face and eyes, cops said.
The suspect then walked away before coming back to spray him a second time.
The victim was treated and released from an area hospital for minor injuries, cops said.
The suspect is believed to be in his late teens, stands around 5-foot-8 and weighs approximately 200 pounds.