Cops are looking for the armed hood pictured above who robbed three women this week at Laundromats in Corona and Jackson Heights.
Manhattan
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A homeless man molested a sleeping female vagrant in Penn Station, authorities said yesterday.
Douglas Bates, 48, grabbed the woman’s breast in the West 34th Street transportation hub at about 10 p.m. Friday, court records state.
Bates also allegedly touched her crotch.
The victim alerted cops, who arrested Bates on a sex-abuse rap.
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A serial shoplifter was collared after a drugstore security guard recognized him from surveillance footage, authorities said yesterday.
Richard Rodriguez, 36, swiped nine bottles of shampoo and 19 bottles of facial products in Duane Reade stores on the Upper East Side between June 15 and last Friday, court documents state.
He allegedly robbed three DR outlets, at 852 Second Ave., 1191 Second Ave. and 1235 Lexington Ave.
A guard at the first location recognized him from video, telling police Rodriguez had been given a trespass notice in October barring him from the premises, cops said.
Rodriguez was arrested Friday on charges of burglary, petit larceny and possession of stolen property.
Brooklyn
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A shopper who used a bogus ID to obtain credit was busted in a second scam attempt at one store in Fort Greene, cops said.
Julio Vargas, 43, allegedly used a fake North Carolina driver’s license to obtain a Best Buy credit card and, on June 5, bought almost $2,000 worth of electronics from the outlet in the Atlantic Center Mall.
He was cuffed a week later when he went back to the store to purchase more merchandise, cops added.
The Bronx
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An honest but dumb suspect told cops he had cocaine when they busted him for driving in Marble Hill with stolen license plates and a suspended license, authorities said.
Richard Feliciano, 46, was behind the wheel of a Subaru Legacy at Bailey Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road at about 3:20 a.m. on June 20 when a cop ran his plates and learned they had been stolen, court papers state.
Feliciano had previously lost his license for failing to pay a summons, cops said.
“I have a tin foil of cocaine under the driver’s seat,” he admitted before being cuffed, according to court papers.
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A woman drunk on booze and high on drugs set fire to an acquaintance’s Claremont Village apartment, authorities said.
Samantha Santiago, 21, allegedly drank booze and smoked angel dust at 10:30 p.m. on June 21 before letting herself in at the Jennings Street home of a man who owed her money, cops said.
“I basically blacked out and . . . set his vest on fire,” she later confessed, according to court papers.
Santiago fled after sparking the blaze, and returned to find firefighters dousing the flames, court papers add. She was arrested for arson and reckless endangerment.
Queens
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This crook keeps making a clean getaway.
Cops are looking for the armed hood pictured who robbed three women this week at Laundromats in Corona and Jackson Heights.
The suspect first surfaced Sunday, holding up a 56-year-old woman at 2:30 p.m. in a business on Astoria Boulevard near 95th Street.
The next day, he targeted a 55-year-old victim in a 3 a.m. heist in the Laundromat on 103rd Street near 37th Avenue.
On Tuesday, he pulled a gun on a 41-year-old woman in the Laundromat on 37th Avenue near 101st Street.
In ever instance he fled with cash.
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A bandit being sought for the armed stickup of a Dunkin’ Donuts in Jamaica last month has been linked to two more gunpoint robberies, police said.
The crook (pictured) targeted two gas stations on Hillside Avenue, on May 21 and June 3.
He scored cash in both holdups.
He first struck on May 18, running off with dough from a Dunkin’ Donuts on Hillside Avenue.
Staten Island
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Cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and marijuana were discovered in a Stapleton apartment during a drug raid, authorities said.
The narcotics were stashed in baggies strewn about the Targee Street pad of Damian Rice, 39, who was arrested Tuesday at 6 a.m. along with Vigil Holman, 46, according to court papers.
Also nabbed for selling cocaine to undercovers in separate operations were Sean Witted, 32, Wornyonwon Jeffrey, 30, and Jay Daniel, 29, cops said.
All five were slapped with various drug-related charges, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.