MANHATTAN
* A man has been arrested in connection with five Midtown bank robberies, and one attempted robbery, that netted him approximately $4,000 in cash, police said yesterday. Jimmy Carswell, 58, was nabbed Tuesday by a patrol officer who observed him slip a note demanding money to a teller and walk out with loot from Greenpoint Bank at One Penn Plaza, Commissioner Ray Kelly said. The officer followed Carswell, who finally turned around and said, “You got me.” Carswell also allegedly struck at various banks’ branches in an area bordered by Lexington and Sixth avenues and 26th and 42nd streets from Jan. 24 to last Friday. Charges are pending.
* The medical examiner has ruled a homicide the death of a woman whose skeletal remains were found in the concrete floor of a Hell’s Kitchen building. A construction worker discovered the woman’s skull in the basement of a West 46th Street building last Monday around 4 p.m. The ME’s office said the woman died of asphyxiation. Police are trying to identify her.
* A homeless man was arrested yesterday when he tried to flee a Midtown bank with stolen cash, police said. Plainclothes Anti-crime Unit cops staking out potential robbery targets were in the Greenpoint branch on Sixth Avenue near 47th Street around noon when Philip Hoyt, 42, allegedly walked inside and slipped a teller a note demanding money. After the teller complied, she signaled to cops, who made the arrest. Charges are pending.
* Three men – one wielding a gun – robbed a woman in Central Park, police said yesterday. On Tuesday, the 41-year-old woman was jogging at West 103rd Street and West Drive at 4:30 p.m. when three men, ages 15 to 20, accosted her. One of them pushed her the ground, pulled a gun and demanded money. The thieves fled with $20 in cash and a MetroCard. The victim was not injured.
* A man was struck and injured by a subway train yesterday after he jumped or fell to the tracks at the 125th Street Station on the Lexington Avenue line, police said. A northbound No. 6 train hit the 51-year-old man and partially severed his hand. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
THE BRONX
* An off-duty hospital security officer was busted on a pot charge yesterday in Port Morris, police said. A detective arrested Miguel Jimenez, 38, after observing him with what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette on East 149th Street and Prospect Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Jimenez, assigned to Lincoln Hospital, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana.
* Police yesterday identified a Kingsbridge man who apparently diedfrom carbon monoxide poisoning while warming up his car. The body of Cruz Espindola, 23, was found in his car near his home on Claflin Avenue and West 197th Street around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
BROOKLYN
* Ten swastikas and two Stars of David were scrawled in the stairwell of a Bensonhurst subway station in a presumed bias incident. A subway supervisor discovered the vandalism Tuesday at around 9 a.m. in the 18th Avenue station.
STATEN ISLAND
* A man was arrested for menacing his son-in-law with a shotgun in Arden Heights – and not because the snow blocked him in, as was originally reported, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. On Tuesday, Robert Vega, 64, allegedly pointed a 12-gauge Winchester shotgun at his son-in-law, Kenneth Torgersen, in front of 30 Gary Court. A sanitation worker who was driving by saw the incident and contacted cops. Police responded to the scene and arrested Vega on menacing and weapons-possession charges.