The Bronx
A woman swiped a customer’s wallet from a drugstore checkout counter in Fordham Manor, authorities said.
The thief spied the unattended wallet at Duane Reade on East Kingsbridge Road near Jerome Avenue last Friday morning, police said.
She grabbed it and left the store pushing a blue “granny” cart before the 45-year-old female victim noticed, cops said.
The suspect is believed to be between 50 and 55 with black hair, and was last seen wearing glasses, blue jeans and a gray coat.
Manhattan
A robber has been knocking off banks all over town, striking nine times since the beginning of this year, authorities said.
The spree began Jan. 25 when the suspect passed a teller a demand note and fled with an undetermined amount of cash from a Chase Bank on Barclay Street in the Financial District, cops said.
The thief robbed six more banks in Manhattan and one in The Bronx over the next two months, cops said.
His most recent heist occurred Tuesday at about 5:30 p.m. when he scored about $1,500 from a Capital One bank on East 34th Street.
A thief swiped a pack of cigarettes from a West Village gas station and stabbed a worker who chased after him, authorities said.
The man grabbed the smokes and dashed out of a Mobil station on Eighth Avenue near West 13th Street on Monday at about 1:45 a.m., police said.
An 18-year-old male employee pursued the thief, who pulled out a knife during the chase and stabbed the worker in the left hand, cops said.
The victim was treated at an area hospital, officials said.
The suspect is believed to be about 35 years old, 5 feet 10 and 200 pounds.
He was last seen wearing a dark hoodie, blue jeans and black shoes.
Queens
An employee at a Best Buy in Long Island City discovered a trove of child pornography on a customer’s computer after the creep dropped it off for repair, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Michael Murray, 61, brought his laptop to the Northern Boulevard store on March 26 and left it with the computer repair team, court records state.
When a technician booted up the laptop days later, he found several of the vile images, including a screensaver of multiple images of young girls posing provocatively or engaging in sexual acts with adult men.
The employee alerted his supervisor, who then called police, according to a criminal complaint.
Officers arrested Murray at his East Elmhurst home Wednesday, hitting him with several kiddie porn-related charges.
Murray allegedly admitted that he had been exchanging such images online for about five years.
Authorities are searching for a mentally challenged Richmond Hill man who disappeared from Mount Sinai Hospital.
Israel Jardinez, 24, was last seen leaving the East Harlem hospital Monday at about 5:45 p.m., police said.
Jardinez, who has the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, is 5 feet 7 and 220 pounds, officials said.
He was last seen wearing a black jacket with a Mi Raza logo, tan pants, a black and white hoodie and sneakers.
Jardinez has a partially closed left eye.
An elderly Springfield Gardens man who went missing last weekend was found dead in the waters off Nassau County, authorities said.
William Braxton, 83, was last seen leaving his 173rd Street home near 143rd Road at about noon on Saturday, police said.
His body was found floating in Head of Bay near Inwood, LI, approximately five miles from his home, on Wednesday at about 3 p.m., officials said.
It was not immediately known whether Braxton had a history of wandering or mental illness, according to cops.