When the perpetrator (above) walked into the booze emporium at 3604 Riverdale Ave. at 11 pm. on Feb. 20, the employee immediately recognized him from a theft two weeks earlier, cops said.
Police are hunting the four bandits (above) who raided a Fort Greene storage facility.
Manhattan
A well-groomed groper is prowling the Upper East Side for victims, police said.
Surveillance footage shows a nattily dressed suspect (pictured) nonchalantly strolling down the street chatting on his cellphone before looking back over his shoulder.
The sicko squeezed the inner thigh of a 33-year-old woman near East 62nd Street and Park Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
He also grabbed the buttocks of a 19-year-old woman walking near Second Avenue and East 62nd Street at 1:55 p.m. Monday.
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A bank thief in his 60s fled empty-handed from a branch on the Upper West Side, cops said.
“This is an armed robbery, give me all the money you have,” the thug growled at a teller in the Bank of America on Broadway near West 110th Street at 1:13 p.m. Monday.
But seconds later, the suspect, sporting salt and pepper hair and wearing a denim jacket, ran off with no cash.
The Bronx
A Riverdale liquor-store clerk recognized a shoplifter from an earlier robbery — and the crook stole the keys of the clerk trying to hold him for cops, police said.
When the perpetrator (pictured) walked into the booze emporium at 3604 Riverdale Ave. at 11 pm. on Feb. 20, the employee immediately recognized him from a theft two weeks earlier, cops said.
A tussle ensued, and finally the crook snatched keys from the worker’s pocket and fled.
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A 17-year-old youth was stabbed to death in a Belmont apartment yesterday, cops said.
The teen, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was knifed in the torso in a fifth-floor apartment on Clinton Avenue near East 182nd Street.
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A Poughkeepsie man died when he lost control of his car and barreled into a pole near Van Cortlandt Park, police said.
Kwame Awtwi, 51, was driving a 2010 Toyota Venza northbound on Jerome Avenue early yesterday at about 2:20 a.m. when he crashed at East Gun Hill Road.
Brooklyn
Police are hunting the four bandits (pictured) who raided a Fort Greene storage facility.
An employee was locking up iStore Green on Hall Street at 5:30 p.m. Saturday when the suspects approached, cops said.
One perpetrator indicated he had a gun and forced the victim to let him and his cohorts in, cops added.
The hoods then went floor by floor and took 5,000 counterfeit brand-name handbags, which were loaded into four waiting trucks, cops said.
The victim was finally cut loose at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, and the suspects fled.
Staten Island
A 78-year-old driver was hospitalized after a drunken motorist high on drugs slammed into the victim’s car in Great Kills, authorities said.
Rory Cahill, 22, was behind the wheel of a 2007 Mercury when he crashed head-on into the victim’s vehicle on Wilson Avenue at 1:40 p.m. Sunday, court papers state.
“I had one beer,” said Cahill, who blew a .11 on a Breathalyzer, above the legal limit of .08, cops said.
He had also ingested the generic version of the antidepressant Zoloft, cops added.
The elderly driver suffered a broken leg and pelvis, and was at Staten Island University Hospital.
Cahill was charged with vehicular assault and DWI, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Queens
A hothead driver dragged his wife along a Corona street while she desperately clung to his SUV, authorities said.
Freddy Rodriguez, 46, was in a 2008 Infiniti FX at a red light on 108th Street at 8:45 p.m. on Feb. 18 when he started arguing with his 26-year-old wife standing outside the vehicle, court papers state.
The woman was holding onto the door handle when Rodriguez hit the gas and blew a red light, dragging her before she fell to the pavement and suffered minor injuries, cops said.
Rodriguez was nabbed on Feb. 22 and charged with assault, leaving the scene of an accident and reckless endangerment, said a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.