Manhattan
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A career thief is back on familiar ground — a holding cell — this time for allegedly breaking into lockers at a Kips Bay gym.
Workers at the New York Sports Club at 614 Second Ave. alerted officers at the 17th Precinct on Wednesday that a “locker creeper” was afoot.
A plainclothes officer said he witnessed Milton Brown using a screwdriver to pry open several lockers and swiping a total of $2,317 in cash.
Brown is also a suspect in the theft of $400 from 24-Hour Fitness, a gym at 153 E. 53rd St., cops said.
The 42-year-old’s racked up 49 arrests in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and other states — even as far west as Utah.
He is charged with burglary, petit larceny and possession of burglary tools and is being investigated in connection with other thefts within the precinct, authorities said.
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A man who met someone on the Internet and invited him to his Upper East Side home claims he was drugged and woke up to find his “friend” gone — along with his laptop, Social Security card, Blackberry and three credit cards, authorities said.
The unidentified man said he met up with Michael Hamrick, 38, on Jan. 7 and took him to his East 90th Street home at about 12:30 a,m.
Hamrick was arrested two days later and charged with grand larceny after allegedly making unauthorized purchases with the credit cards. Cops added that they found the missing laptop in his home.
Once in custody, Hamrick was also charged with assault for allegedly attacking a second man with a lamp last June 23, according to court records.
The Bronx
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A man was shot dead and his brother wounded when a dispute in Baychester turned homicidal.
An unknown figure opened fire at 5:15 p.m. Saturday, fatally hitting Pellumb Fusha, 39, in the torso after an argument in Cafe Serrata, on Hone Avenue.
Fusha’s unidentified 35-year-old brother, struck in both arms, was recovering last night at Jacobi Hospital, police said.
Investigators said it was not immediately known what sparked the argument.
Queens
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He was known to be armed and suspected of shooting a teenager in Far Rockaway — yet detectives found him hiding out at his mama’s place.
Daequan Peterson, 20, was busted Thursday for allegedly shooting an 18-year-old male in the hand and hip at 104 Beach 20th St. last May 12.
Found at his mother’s East Harlem home, Peterson is charged with attempted murder, assault, weapon possession and reckless endangerment.
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This NYPD custodial assistant needs to clean up his act.
Narcotics cops assigned to Rockaway Beach said they saw Shanti Fyall, 36, tuck what looked like marijuana into one his of jacket pockets while standing behind a home on Shore Front Parkway near Beach 81st Street.
The cops said they swooped in and recovered five baggies of weed.
Fyall confessed to a charge of drug possession but refused to take a drug test, the cops said. He also resigned from his job with the department, they added.
Brooklyn
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The professional baby sitter apparently needed a sitter of her own.
Lisa Lupia, 47, had worked for her 39-year-old Bath Beach employer for six years when she found an engagement ring and a wedding band so tempting that she scooped them off the bedroom dresser and proceeded to pawn the items for $4,865, authorities said.
Her unidentified employer said the rings disappeared between Jan. 5 and Jan. 9.
Lupia was caught on surveillance video selling the rings at a jewelry shop on 86th Street near Bay 29th Street, cops said.
She was arrested on Jan. 16 and charged with grand larceny.
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Quitting a motorcycle club can prove to be a painful decision, as a Midwood man found out, according to authorities.
Angry biker Clifton Matias, 48, showed up on the unidentified 44-year-old ex-club member’s East 2nd Street doorstep at about 6:25 p.m. on Jan. 14 to collect the club’s insignias, cops said.
What he noticed did little to calm him down. The stitched patches had been defaced, he barked at his former friend — who surprisingly offered to settle the argument out back, the cops said.
He should have known better than to expect a fair fight.
Matias allegedly pulled a handkerchief stuffed with lead weights and bashed him in the face, causing two huge welts, before fleeing.
He turned himself in two days later and was charged with assault and weapon possession.