Brooklyn
A bandit stole a bike from the stairwell of a Williamsburg apartment building, authorities said.
The suspect plucked a 41-year-old man’s Trek bicycle from the residence on North Fifth Street near Driggs Avenue on at 8:50 p.m. July 14, according to police.
Surveillance video caught the thief bringing the boosted bike into the building’s elevator.
He was wearing a black T-shirt, blue jeans and red sneakers.
The red-headed suspect, believed to be in his 20s, stands about 5-foot-10, weighs about 200 pounds, and has tattoos on both arms.
A school safety agent allegedly tried to set her husband on fire Tuesday in a fetid Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment where their four children were also present, cops said.
Roniece Watson, 33, placed an open flame on her husband’s knee at about 3 a.m. and police soon arrived at the uninhabitable apartment, which had rotting food in the refrigerator and rooms in disarray, cops said.
Police took custody of the kids and put them in the care of Child Protective Services, officials said.
Watson was charged with attempted assault, weapon possession and four counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
A graffiti artist was caught while he defaced property in Fort Greene, authorities said.
David Self, 43, spray-painted the message “Self love is the answer” on a building on Vanderbilt Avenue, near Myrtle Avenue, at 12:20 a.m. Monday, a court complaint states.
About 15 minutes later, he was caught around the corner, at Myrtle and Clermont avenues, painting the same words with a stencil, the records claim.
He was arrested and charged with making graffiti, possession of graffiti instruments and criminal mischief, said a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn DA’s Office.
Queens
A thug terrorized a 90-year-old man in Woodside and forced the victim to drive him to ATMs, where he made withdrawals from the victim’s account, cops said.
The suspect approached the elderly victim as he walked to his car, which was parked outside Stop & Shop on 48th Street last Friday at about 10:45 a.m., police said.
The brute grabbed the man by his neck and forced him to drive to two ATMs and reveal his PIN so that he could withdraw cash, cops said.
It wasn’t immediately clear how much cash the thief scored.
The crook is believed to be in his 30s and he wore his hair in braids.
Manhattan
Police charged a Bronx man in the triple shooting that left one man dead in East Harlem.
Raheem Barnes, 18, killed Terry Nathaniel, 23, with a shot to the torso during a robbery on Lexington Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. on July 15, cops said.
Barnes approached Nathaniel’s 2004 Honda Accord near East 121st Street and said, “Give me everything you got” before opening fire on Nathaniel and a 27-year-old man, police said.
The second victim, whose identity was not released, was shot in the leg, authorities said. A third man suffered a gunshot wound to the forearm.
Both survivors were taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where they were in stable condition.
Barnes is charged with murder, attempted murder, assault, weapon possession and robbery.
Get a room, you two!
A man and woman were busted during a sexual encounter on a public street in the Meatpacking District, police sources said Tuesday.
Kim Charles, 39, was performing a sexual act on Umar Khan, 23, at Little West 12th Street and Washington Street at around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, when patrol cops spotted them and quickly put them in cuffs, police sources said.
Both were charged with public lewdness.
What a “pee” brain.
James Cartwright, 42, was busted for urinating on the L train platform in the Eighth Avenue/14th Street station at about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, police sources said.
Cops frisked him and found a bag of marijuana, a knife and two bent Metrocards, the sources said.
Bent Metrocards are commonly used to illegally swipe commuters through turnstiles.
Cartwright was charged with criminal possession of a weapon and marijuana possession, and was issued a violation for public urination.