Manhattan
A nimble vandal scaled a locked fence at the Atlah Church in Harlem and spray-painted “God is gay” on its message board, police sources said.
The vandal climbed over the gate on West 123rd Street near Lenox Avenue at around 12:25 a.m. Saturday, removed the board’s letters and then left his graffiti, police said.
A trucker was arrested after crashing his oversized rig trying to get onto a ramp to the George Washington Bridge and snarling traffic in Washington Heights, officials said.
Mahamadi Quedraogo, 46, was driving his tractor-trailer past the bus terminal on Broadway and West 178th Street to get onto the ramp for the westbound upper level of the bridge at around 11:25 a.m. Wednesday when the incident occurred, police said.
His truck was too wide and hit a light pole, which crashed onto a parked Toyota Highlander and Dodge Caravan, according to the Port Authority police. Both vehicles were empty, and no injuries were reported.
When cops arrived, Quedraogo, who was driving a 2012 Freightliner, gave them his Georgia license, and investigators discovered he had five suspensions in five states, including New York, officials added.
Quedraogo was charged with unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, according to Joseph Pentangelo, a PA spokesman.
The tractor-trailer was impounded.
A New Jersey man partying in lower Manhattan on St. Patrick’s Day was arrested after crashing his car on the way out of town, officials said.
Timothy Faistl of Colts Neck was going through the Holland Tunnel in his 2014 Jeep Commander at around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday when he lost control and flipped the vehicle, according to cops.
Port Authority police officers who responded to the scene found Faistl and a 24-year-old woman trapped in the Jeep and helped them get out through a window, authorities said.
The driver smelled of booze, swayed and had bloodshot eyes, police added.
He failed sobriety tests and was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, according to the PA police.
A hulking woman attacked her mother and trashed the family’s apartment after waking up on the wrong side of the bed in Marble Hill, authorities said.
Bianca Santiago, 20, awoke in her mom’s apartment on West 228th Street near Broadway at around 9:30 a.m. March 17, and for no apparent reason, began screaming before throwing a punch at the older woman, cops said.
The 5-foot-9, 200-pound Santiago then grabbed her mother and shoved her around until the victim fled the home to call police, a Criminal Court complaint charges.
When the mother returned, her irate daughter screamed, “Come! Come and see what I did to your apartment!” the documents allege.
The victim found her framed art, mirrors and bathroom shelves shattered on the floor, the records claim.
A house plant had been yanked from the window sill and thrown around the room, leaving piles of soil on the floor and couches, according to the documents.
The mom’s stereo lay broken on the floor and her dresser was in pieces.
When cops arrived, the daughter yelled, “I’m going to kill that bitch! She’s going to be six feet under,’’ and, “Yeah, I broke everything, start from the ground up,” law-enforcement sources said.
The mother suffered a cut to her finger and pain to her right arm.
The daughter was charged with assault, criminal mischief, menacing and harassment.
The Bronx
A man choked his girlfriend until she blacked out, authorities said.
Andrea Georges, 24, grabbed the woman’s neck and squeezed until she lost consciousness at around 10 a.m. March 17 inside the home on South Oak Drive near Barnes Avenue in the Allerton section, a Criminal Court complaint states.
Georges also stole the woman’s debit card, according to the records.
When cops went to pick him up near the home at around 11:30 a.m., they found 24 bags of marijuana on him, the documents state.
“I have weed,” Georges allegedly confessed.
He was charged with grand larceny, assault, petit larceny, obstruction of breathing, harassment and pot possession.
Queens
At least two people were shot in an Astoria courtyard early Sunday, police said.
Investigators are unsure what sparked the shooting outside the Queensboro Houses on 12th Street at around 2:45 a.m.
One victim was struck in the foot, and the other was hit in the knee.
Police were trying to determine whether a third victim was taken to an area hospital.