Manhattan
The mother of a 6-month-old baby boy found abandoned in a Harlem playground was charged with child endangerment, cops said Monday.
Kenyetta Rowell, 18, of Staten Island, admitted to officers that she had left her son bundled up against the cold and stocked with formula in his stroller in the Renaissance Playground near West 143rd Street and Eighth Avenue at around 9 p.m., Sunday, police said.
A good Samaritan, 52-year-old Michael Allen, spotted the child and notified police.
The baby was taken to Harlem Hospital in good health and turned over to the Administration for Children’s Services.
His father walked into the 32nd Precinct station house at 10 a.m. Monday, with Rowell following shortly behind, cops said.
After questioning, she was charged with failure to exercise control over a minor, reckless endangerment and falsely reporting an incident. Sources said the father had nothing to do with the crime.
Brooklyn
An off-duty NYPD school-safety agent pulled a knife on his ex-girlfriend’s new lover at a Downtown hotel, law-enforcement sources said.
Antonio Thomas, 33, went to the Hotel Indigo on Duffield Street at 11:30 p.m., Sunday to meet with his 23-year-old ex, but the woman’s new girlfriend showed up and things got out of hand, cops said.
Thomas started fighting with his new 19-year-old female rival and pulled a knife on her, police said.
He was slapped with charges of weapon possession and menacing
Staten Island
A junkie stole more than $17,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables from a former NYPD detective and his wife after the couple let him stay in their New Springville home, authorities said.
Christian Kempf, 26, snatched the retired detective’s duplicate shield, his iPhone and his wife’s engagement ring, wallet and other jewelry between January and Feb. 27, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
He even took the ex-cop’s daughter’s necklace, too, the papers allege.
Most of the valuables had been locked in a safe, according to the victim.
The theft was discovered when the junkie landed in the hospital after a vein burst and the ex-cop, delivering him clothes, found some of the family’s belongings in the suspect’s pockets, the court documents claim.
Other belongings had been sold to area pawn shops and jewelers, according to the records.
When confronted, Kempf allegedly stated, “I stole their property to support a heroin habit. I am completely ashamed for what I have done. I found a safe key and that is where I found most of the items I sold. I can’t even begin to express how sorry I am and I am willing to do everything I have to do to make this right.”
Kempf was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
A high-school bully gave another student a black eye while trying to rob him of his headphones on their way home from school in St. George, law-enforcement sources said.
The alleged bully, Zaquane Reid, 16, attacked the victim at 3:30 p.m. on March 18, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
The two had reached Winter and Westervelt avenues when Reid punched the other kid in the face and tried to yank off his headphones, the complaint claims.
Reid was charged with assault, attempted robbery, attempted petit larceny and attempted possession of stolen property.
A so-called friend snatched his buddy’s wallet, which contained nearly $4,000 in cash, while the two men grabbed some grub at a Tottenville pizza place, authorities said.
Nicholas Gibilaro, 24, was chowing down with his 21-year-year-old “pal” at Pino’s Pizza on Rossville Avenue at around 3 p.m., March 13, when the victim looked away and the thief snatched his wallet off the counter and slipped it into his jacket pocket, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
“I saw an opportunity and took his wallet,” Gibilaro allegedly confessed to investigators.
Surveillance cameras captured the dirty deed and cops arrested Gibilaro on charges of grand larceny, petit larceny and possession of stolen property, officials said.
The Bronx
A man standing next to his car with a gun in plain view was arrested on the spot, authorities said.
Edrick Anderson, 28, had the trunk of his 2013 Nissan Maxima open at Yates and Adee avenues in Laconia at around 12:55 a.m. Sunday, a Criminal Court complaint states.
That’s when a cop from the 49th Precinct noticed a Smith & Wesson in the trunk and a matching gun clip with 13 live rounds, the complaint states.
Inside the console compartment of the vehicle, which had Connecticut license plates, were several prescription pills and three joints, according to the records.
The pills were the painkillers oxycodone and Percocet, the papers say.
“This is my car and everything is mine,” Anderson allegedly told the cop, who charged him with possession of a weapon, ammo, controlled substance and marijuana.