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Manhattan

A tenant was conned out of more than $6,000 after answering a Craigslist ad for an apartment on the Far West Side, police said.

The 60-year-old victim responded to an offer for an apartment on West 37th Street, near 11th Avenue, on May 28 and transferred a $6,425 deposit.

He showed up a couple of weeks later to move into Apartment 520, but was told by two doormen that no such unit exists.

No arrests have been made.

The Bronx

A man has been charged with killing his 19-year-old daughter inside the family’s Bedford Park apartment, authorities said.

Latia Taylor-Atkins was found unconscious in the residence on East 201st Street near Marion Avenue at 3 p.m. last Friday.

She was taken to Montefiore Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Taylor-Atkins’ death a homicide and police arrested her father, Andrew Atkins, 56.

Investigators believe he choked her to death during an argument.

The father was charged with murder and manslaughter.


A man is wanted for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl on the subway in Eastchester, cops said.

The suspect followed a 42-year-old woman and the girl onto a southbound No. 5 train at the Dyre Avenue station on May 11 at about 11 a.m., cops said.

The creep flashed the victims before bolting off the train at the Gun Hill Road station, cops said.

The suspect is believed to be in his 50s, 6-foot-6 and 245 pounds.

Brooklyn

Transit cops caught a 19-year-old swiping a student MetroCard at a Bedford-Stuyvesant train station and found a loaded .22-caliber revolver in his pocket, authorities said.

Officers stopped Michael Guzman on Tuesday night when they saw him enter the Gates Avenue station on the J/Z line using the card that didn’t belong to him, police said.

An identity check on Guzman showed that he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear on a summons, cops added.

As the fare-scammer was taken into custody, police searched him and found the revolver in his front pocket, officials said.

Guzman, of Canarsie, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and theft of services.

Staten Island

A thief swiped a wallet from the counter of an Eltingville deli after a customer left it behind, authorities said.

The crook saw the wallet sitting on the counter at Bagel Busters Deli on Arthur Kill Road near Cortelyou Avenue on June 1 at 7 p.m. and grabbed it, according to police.

He made off with the victim’s cash and credit cards, cops said.

The suspect is believed to be in his 20s and sports a tattoo that spirals around his right arm.

The suspect was spotted on surveillance video wearing a backwards black baseball cap and a black T-shirt with a large red logo.


A CVS employee made off with $9,971 after he failed to deposit the money into the Tottenville pharmacy’s safe, authorities said.

Joseph Lipari, 48, doctored logbooks and then failed to put the money in the Page Avenue store’s safe on May 1, a Criminal Court complaint states.

The following day, the manager realized the money was missing, records state.

Lipari was charged with grand larceny.


A Concord mother is charged with biting her 9-year-old son after getting a bad report from his school, authorities said.

Camille Frederick-Goode, 33, allegedly bit her son on the shoulder, arm and hand inside their home on Fayette Avenue on June 11 at about 5 p.m., according to a Criminal Court complaint.

Frederick-Goode got angry after reading a letter sent home by the boy’s school and allegedly attacked her son, sources said.

The bites left the boy with marks, pain and redness, records state.

Frederick-Goode was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, assault, and harassment.