Brooklyn
A hateful vandal spray-painted swastikas on a Hebrew-school bus in Mapleton, sources said.
The manager of the United Talmudical Academy made the disturbing discovery on one of the school’s buses at around 7:30 a.m. Dec. 30.
He spotted two gold swastikas scrawled across the right side of the bus, which was parked at 21st Avenue and 57th Street.
The culprit also tagged the bus with unintelligible writing.
A thief took advantage of a passed-out straphanger on a Brooklyn-bound subway train — but didn’t get away unnoticed, authorities said.
The phone he stole was equipped with an application that snapped his picture (right).
The phone’s sloshed owner, 23, had boarded the southbound No. 4 train at 101st Street in Manhattan at around 3 a.m. Dec. 8 and fell asleep on his journey home, cops said.
Somewhere along the way, The thief sat down next to the vulnerable victim and used a sharp object to cut open the man’s pockets, removing his wallet and cellphone, cops said.
When the victim awoke near the Borough Hall station in Brooklyn, he realized he had been pick-pocketed and called police.
Police have released the identity of an East Flatbush man who was gunned down in broad daylight while shoveling snow, authorities said.
Duane Lett, 34, was digging out his car near his home on Rockaway Parkway at 1 p.m. Saturday when the killer walked up and shot him four times in the head before running off, cops said.
Lett was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
A city sanitation worker was arrested for stealing merchandise while moonlighting at a Home Depot in East New York, authorities said.
Alexander Ortiz, 33, was working part-time at the home-improvement store while off-duty from his trash-collecting job and was apparently giving stolen items to family members, cops said. He allegedly altered inventory records to cover his tracks.
Ortiz was arrested Friday and charged with grand larceny, falsifying business records and possession of stolen property.
Police arrested a teenage gunman who opened fire on a group of rivals in Brownsville, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Kareem Hendricks, 16, was hanging out near the Brownsville Houses at Rockaway and Sutter avenues with a group of friends at noon Dec. 18 when he suddenly started shouting at other teenagers across the street, the complaint says.
Hendricks then allegedly pulled out a gun and started blasting at the teens, sending both groups scattering.
Hendricks tried to ditch the Jennings .22-caliber pistol under a parked car, but responding officers quickly found it and arrested him, the complaint says.
He was charged with reckless endangerment and possession of a weapon, according to the complaint.
Staten Island
An Arden Heights man drunkenly assaulted two guys and hit a woman with his car before fleeing, authorities said.
Anthony Fiore, 24, punched two men in the face during an altercation at East Service Road and Arthur Kill Road in Rossville at 3 a.m. Nov. 24, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Fiore then hit a woman with his 2013 BMW as he fled, authorities said. He also struck the victim’s car several times, the complaint alleges.
He was arrested more than five miles away, at Buffalo Street and Hylan Boulevard, after cops stopped him and found him allegedly intoxicated and reeking of alcohol.
Fiore refused to take a Breathalyzer test and was charged with DWI, assault and leaving the scene of an accident, according to the complaint.
The woman’s injuries were not life-threatening.
The Bronx
Three thugs brutally beat and robbed a man in the West Bronx, authorities said.
The unidentified victim was standing outside a building on East Burnside Avenue near Morris Avenue at around noon Nov. 16 when the men snatched his Samsung Galaxy cellphone from his hands, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
When the victim grabbed his phone back, the brutes punched him and beat him while he was on the ground.
The injured man attempted to run, but was chased down by the muggers and repeatedly punched and kicked, according to the complaint.
He was treated at an area hospital for cuts and bruises.
Christopher Vernon, 23, was arrested and charged with robbery, grand larceny and assault in the crime. The other two thugs are still at large, the complaint states.