Queens
A friend who agreed to help a family out by baby sitting has been busted for allegedly abusing her 1-year-old charge.
Ana Rodriguez, 48, was watching the little girl on Dec. 28 in a home on 248th Street in Douglaston when she placed a large stuffed animal over the tyke’s face, court papers state.
And on Jan. 5 she hit the baby in the face with a pillow and repeatedly lifted her off the couch by just one arm, the court records add.
All this was caught on a hidden camera, investigators say, leading to Rodriguez’s arrest on Feb. 22.
She is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, although the little girl was not seriously injured, cops said.
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It took 11 weeks, but two suspects who allegedly broke a man’s jaw as he left a high-school basketball game in Astoria have been slam-dunked by investigators.
Mark Evangelista, 25, and Ernani Deleon, 26, allegedly jumped the man outside Frank Sinatra HS, on 35th Street, at 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 4. The man underwent reconstructive surgery at a local hospital.
Evangelista and Deleon were picked up on Feb. 22 and charged with gang assault.
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A woman has been arrested and charged with fabricating employment letters in an attempt to rent a Fresh Meadows apartment, authorities said.
Tamica Ford, 35, allegedly inflated her $15-an-hour salary at Corbin Family Dental Arts to $40 an hour in forged documents turned over to a real-estate agent at Loubriel & Associates on Feb. 5.
The suspicious agent contacted Dr. Bruce Corbin and his brother, Dr. Richard Corbin, who confirmed that the letter was indeed fake, court papers state. Ford had also produced a fake reference from a “landlord,” according to the court records.
In addition, Ford, who had been employed by the dental office since last August, sent a manager there a series of disturbing phone calls and texts, cops said.
She was charged with forgery, falsifying business records and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney Richard Brown.
Manhattan
Police are seeking the public’s help in locating an elderly man (pictured) who vanished from a street in Morningside Heights, cops said.
Jorge Castro-Garcia, 70, was in poor mental health when he was last spotted on West 102nd Street near Broadway at 4 p.m. last Thursday. He had on a black peacoat and black sneakers.
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An unlicensed motorist in a stolen luxury sedan plowed into three cars and left a pedestrian requiring treatment for a leg injury, cops said.
Yadwinder Singh, 26, was zipping along in the Audi A6 with pal Lal Avtar, 21, when he crashed into a minivan, injuring one of its occupants, on West 179th Street near St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights at 9:50 p.m. on Feb. 28, court records show.
The Audi next hit a parked Jeep and rear-ended a Toyota Camry, which was sent careening into a pedestrian crossing the street, court papers say.
Officers on patrol nearby rushed after the Audi and collared Singh along with his passenger, authorities said.
A check of DMV records reveals that Singh’s license had been revoked after a DWI conviction in 2007 and that the $50,000 Audi was stolen, according to the court papers.
Brooklyn
A young man was fatally shot inside a Fort Greene housing project last night.
The 20-year-old victim, struck once in the chest, was found around 9:20 p.m. in the third-floor hallway of a building at the Whitman Houses on Carlton Avenue, police said. The victim, whose name was withheld, was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital where he died.
Staten Island
A 16-year-old punk who goes by the nickname “Dirty Mike” pulled a gun on an acquaintance on a city bus and stole his cellphone, only to turn around and sell it for a measly $35, authorities said.
“If you don’t walk off, I’m gonna shoot you!” Michael Conley allegedly snarled after removing the .25-caliber pistol from one of his shoes on the S48. He borrowed the T-Mobile phone just minutes earlier and refused to return it, cops said.
Investigators said Conley told them that he later sold the phone to someone in a deli on South Avenue in Mariners Harbor.
Conley was arrested and charged with robbery and assault, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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A man was nabbed red-handed buying drugs behind a Graniteville shopping plaza, cops said.
Michael Santangelo, 35, was seen in his car completing the transaction with a second person behind the stores on Richmond Avenue near Lander Avenue at 10:50 p.m. last Friday, the cops said.
The suspected drug dealer fled, but Santangelo was caught with a large quantity of prepackaged marijuana, the painkiller Suboxone, the steroid Nandrolone and six hypodermic needles, according to court papers.
He was arrested on various drug-related charges.