Manhattan
Police are looking for this man (pictured) in connection with the vicious mugging of a straphanger in the Times Square subway station yesterday.
The suspect, seen here on surveillance video, struck up a conversation with a stranger in the station at 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue just after midnight — then sucker-punched him in the face, knocking him to the ground, ripped his cellphone from his hand, ran over to the northbound No. 1 train platform and escaped, police said.
He’s about 30 years old and 6-foot-3 and was wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, cops said.
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The body of a woman thought to be in her 60s was found floating in the icy waters off Inwood yesterday morning, cops said.
She was pulled to shore near the Columbia University crew team’s boathouse after a caller spotted her at about 8:30 a.m. in the Spuyten Duyvil Creek, which links the Hudson and East rivers at the top of Manhattan.
Investigators said that the woman was fully clothed and that there was no obvious sign of trauma.
They did not release her name but said the city Medical Examiner’s Office would determine the cause of death.
Brooklyn
A pregnant 17-year-old twice lured unsuspecting men to a Flatbush building — where her boyfriend and his brother held them up at gunpoint and even shot one of them, police said.
Dejemani Love is being held in lieu of $250,000 bail after confessing to escorting the men into the Clarkson Street building.
One victim, 27, accompanied her to the fifth floor at 3:05 p.m. March 16, but he made a run for it after spotting Treyvon and Dante Newman lurking in a stairwell, court records show.
One of the brothers allegedly shot him in the shoulder with a shotgun, and doctors at Kings County Hospital told him his arm may have suffered permanent damage, law-enforcement sources said.
Love lured another man into the building Feb. 17, and the Newmans stole his cash, jewelry and coat at gunpoint, the court papers state. That man did not report being injured.
Love is facing a slew of charges, including attempted murder, assault and robbery, but the Newmans remain in the wind, investigators said.
Queens
A man found fatally shot in a vacant St. Albans house that had been set afire was identified yesterday as James Minor, 35, an ex-con from upstate Poughkeepsie.
The body, shot once in the back, was discovered in the basement of the house on 146th Street and 119th Avenue at 9:35 a.m. Sunday after firefighters extinguished what is being investigated as a possible arson fire, police and fire officials said.
Minor’s 25 arrests were mostly drug-related, cops said.
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He just wanted to take the stolen BMW for a spin. He was going to take it right back. Honest!
That’s what cops say Vlad Iancu, 24, told them when they found him standing next to the vehicle on the LIE.
The BMW’s owner reported leaving his keys in the ignition after parking outside a Maspeth convenience store at 69th Street and Grand Avenue at about 10:45 a.m. last Wednesday. He said he called police after coming out and finding it missing.
Iancu allegedly put up a brief struggle as he told arresting officers, “I saw the car. It was a joy ride. I was gonna bring it back.”
He was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest.
Staten Island
A Park Hill man pulled over for speeding was also stoned and driving with a suspended license, according to court records.
Sherard Renaud, 26, was clocked doing 72 mph in a 50-mph zone at Bloomingdale Road and the West Shore Expressway, the documents say.
When arresting officers asked about the aroma of marijuana in the vehicle, Renaud allegedly told them, “I smoked weed — like an hour ago.”
A quick check uncovered he had eight prior drug-related arrests.
Make that nine. He was charged with DWI and aggravated, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.