Manhattan
The Apple-picking robber pictured above stole an iPad and a MacBook Pro from a Harlem apartment, authorities said.
The suspect slipped into the apartment on West 126th Street through a window at about 4:40 p.m. on July 27, police said.
He grabbed the tablet and the laptop computer and fled, cops said.
The suspect, Carlos Orozco, 37, was arrested Tuesday on charges of burglary, grand larceny, possession of stolen property and petit larceny, police said.
A small-time Kuwaiti film director was robbed after summoning a hooker to his Midtown hotel room and arguing with her when she looked nothing like her advertised picture, police sources said.
The 29-year-old man had made arrangements via a Web site to have a woman come to his room at the Westin on 43rd Street near Eighth Avenue at about 3:15 a.m. on July 23, sources said.
When a tall woman arrived to provide a “body rub,” he complained that she wasn’t the one he had selected from an online picture, police sources said.
The woman responded by taking out a pepper-spray canister and threatening trouble from men who she claimed were waiting outside if he didn’t hand over his valuables, sources said.
The woman fled with $800 in cash and a watch she had grabbed from the customer, sources said.
She was caught on elevator surveillance video with clutching the money in her hand, one source said.
Cops said they weren’t releasing the man’s name because they consider him a victim.
The Bronx
A man was fatally shot execution-style in Eastchester, cops said.
The 49-year-old victim was found with a bullet wound to the head in front of a house at Hunter and Tillotson avenues at about 5:20 a.m. Tuesday, according to authorities.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are looking for the triggerman.
The identity of the victim is being withheld pending family notification, officials said.
The man pictured above made a futile bid to rob a Hunts Point sandwich shop, police said.
He pulled a gun in the Subway outlet on Longwood Avenue at about 10:25 p.m. Saturday and demanded cash from an employee, according to cops.
Something went awry and he fled empty-handed. No one was hurt.
He was described as 5-foot-8 with a black beard and short black hair.
He was last seen wearing black pants and a right-arm compression sleeve normally used in the course of medical treatment, according to investigators.
Brooklyn
Two thugs shot a man in the leg on a Bushwick street, authorities said.
The victim, 27, was found by police with the gunshot wounds on Schaefer Street near Wilson Avenue at 10:50 p.m. on July 18, according to cops.
The victim was rushed to a hospital in stable condition.
One of the suspected assailants was last seen wearing a dark T-shirt and white sneakers.
His accomplice wore a white T-shirt and tan shorts.
Queens
A burglar was arrested for swiping jewelry from a College Point home, and cops are investigating the suspect’s possible connection to dozens of other neighborhood break-ins, authorities said.
Songyang Zou, 39, allegedly entered the residence near 14th Avenue and 124th Street through a back door at 7:30 p.m. on May 8 and stole the valuables, according to police.
Zou was apprehended Monday and charged with burglary and criminal possession of stolen property, cops said.
Authorities had previously classified the break-in as part of a pattern in the neighborhood along with at least 24 other burglaries, though Zou has not been charged in any of those incidents.