The man in this picture is wanted for breaking into a cellphone store in Edenwald, police said.
Manhattan
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A 67-year-old pedestrian struck by a Jeep on the Upper East Side was in critical condition last night — as the hit-and-run driver was released on bail after turning himself in, authorities said yesterday.
William DiNapoli, 47, of Hauppauge, LI, allegedly left the victim, from Queens, bleeding from his ears at 78th Street and Lexington Avenue at 6:20 a.m. Tuesday and fled in his black Jeep Cherokee, a Criminal Court complaint states.
DiNapoli surrendered to cops late Tuesday, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and made his $50,000 bail, according to the city Department of Correction.
The unidentified victim was in critical condition with a massive brain injury at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
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A man iis a suspect in the subway-station mugging of a 50-year-old straphanger in Washington Heights, police said.
The suspect asked the victim for the time on a staircase leading to the C-train platform at West 163rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue at about 11:30 a.m. on March 21, cops said.
The thug then punched the man in the face, grabbed his iPhone and ran, police said.
Brooklyn
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A 16-year-old girl confessed that she and a pal targeted three Ditmas Park businesses and stole cash and electronics, authorities said.
Dorothea Montillo was arrested yesterday in connection with a break-in at a Laundromat on Newkirk Avenue at about 9 p.m. on April 3 and the theft of $2,000 from its cash register, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
She and her buddy, who has not been apprehended, also allegedly broke into a Foster Avenue physical-therapy office at about 8 p.m. on March 30 and took a laptop computer.
But the burglars left behind three knives and a screwdriver, cops said.
The suspects are also believed to have struck at about 8:30 p.m. on March 24 at a Newkirk Avenue grocery store, making off with $1,600 in cash as well as lotion and pain relievers, the complaint says.
Montillo was charged with burglary, grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and trespassing, the complaint states.
Queens
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Five Hurricane Sandy relief workers suspected of stealing more than 80 iPads from a Rockaway Beach school are under arrest, law-enforcement sources said.
They were picked up Tuesday and accused of taking the tablets from Scholars’ Academy on Beach 104th Street near Rockaway Freeway last October, sources said.
Romulo Orellana, 52, Edgar Orellana, 23, Michael Orellana, 16, Flavio Orellano, 47, and Luis Calle, 51, were charged with burglary, the sources added.
Police have recovered just 18 of the iPads.
Staten Island
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An ex-con pistol-whipped his girlfriend in West Brighton, authorities said.
Charles Lloyd, 31, was in a building on North Burgher Avenue near Henderson Avenue at 8:30 a.m. Monday when he allegedly went berserk.
According to a Criminal Court complaint, he smacked the woman in the face with a loaded .40-caliber firearm.
Responding cops found a baggie full of marijuana in Lloyd’s pocket, the complaint says.
He was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of marijuana, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Lloyd, whose record includes a stint in prison for a 1999 Bronx robbery, was being held last night on $15,000 bail, according to the city Department of Correction.
The Bronx
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A man is wanted for breaking into a cellphone store in Edenwald, police said.
He allegedly cut a hole in the roof of Laconia Wireless, at Laconia Avenue and East 229th Street, between 2:30 and 3:15 a.m. on March 7 and literally dropped into the store.
The burglar rummaged through the shop and pocketed an unknown number of Virgin Boost phones before fleeing, police said.
He was estimated to be in his late 20s to early 30s and about 5-foot-10 and was last seen wearing a gray-and-black North Face jacket and a black Pittsburgh Pirate baseball cap, police said.