The Bronx
Cops are looking for this man, who snatched a woman’s smartphone in a Subway sandwich shop in Fordham, police said Sunday.
The thief walked into the store on Jerome Avenue near Fordham Road at around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, grabbed the 26-year-old victim’s iPhone and fled, according to police.
No injuries were reported.
Manhattan
The cellphones of two young out-of-town kids were stolen at the International Auto Show, sources said Sunday.
One victim, a 12-year-old boy realized his phone was gone after checking out several hot-rods and sports cars April 19.
When his mom dialed the number, a man answered and told the woman to meet him on Chambers Street at West Broadway, police sources said.
The mother went downtown and waited for more than an hour, but the thief never showed with the iPhone 5, the sources added.
Another victim, an 11-year-old boy, reported his phone stolen at around 6 p.m. the day before.
An underage woman, hellbent on getting into a trendy Chelsea nightclub, threw a fit when she was denied entry, law-enforcement sources said Sunday.
Aisha Batista, 20, tried to get into the Marquee on Tenth Avenue on April 25 with a fake New Jersey ID card, the sources said.
When bouncers told her she would not be admitted, Batista began yelling obscenities at the them, authorities said.
When she allegedly refused to leave after they told her to get lost, cops were called.
Batista gained prompt and free entry into Manhattan Criminal Court, where she was arraigned on charges of disorderly conduct.
A pickpocket lifted a Louis Vuitton wallet from a woman in Chelsea, sources said Sunday.
The 46-year-old victim was on West 23rd Street near Tenth Avenue at around 5:30 p.m. April 23, when someone plucked the $600 wallet from her purse, the sources said.
In addition to the wallet, the thief made off with $100 in cash and an American Express card, they said.
A man who allegedly urinated in front of a subway entrance in Chelsea was hit with several charges after arguing with cops and trying to record them on his cellphone, law-enforcement sources said Sunday.
Joshua Nahas, 40, was busted at Eighth Avenue and West 16th Street on April 19.
When cops tried to bust Nahas, he tried recording them and then made so much noise that a crowd gathered, the sources said.
As he was being cuffed, Nahas also resisted arrest and went limp in an attempt to break the hold that the officers had on him, according to the sources.
He was charged with obstruction of governmental administration and disorderly conduct.
A 46-year-old man living in the Chelsea Houses told cops his windows were shot at several times by pellet-gun-wielding neighbors.
The most recent incident, he told them, occurred April 26.
It appears the pellets had been fired from across the street, sources said.
A man’s high-end briefcase and iPad were stolen while he dined at a sidewalk café in Chelsea, sources said Sunday.
The 32-year-old victim was at Cookshop on Tenth Avenue near West 20th Street at around 10 p.m. April 12.
When he got up to leave, he noticed that both items had vanished.
Brooklyn
A man was shot in Brownsville on Sunday morning, police said.
The victim was struck once in the leg at 360 Mother Gaston Blvd. near Pitkin Avenue at around 2:30 a.m., cops said. The man, whose name and age were not released, was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
The motive for the shooting was unclear.
A Department of Education employee was charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing her car in Crown Heights, police said Sunday.
Deon Jones, 29, was driving at around 8:30 p.m. Saturday, when she smashed her car on Dean Street near Bedford Avenue, cops said.
When police arrived, officers noticed she had bloodshot and watery eyes, as well as alcohol on her breath, authorities said.
She allegedly refused to take a Breathalyzer test and was charged.
It was unclear what she does for the DOE.