THE BRONX
* A teenager has been arrested in connection with last month’s fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Williamsbridge, and cops are searching for two more suspects. On March 18, Elvis Martin, 19, and two other teens accosted Kidan Johnson as he was walking home on 216th Street near Barnes Avenue at around 2:30 p.m., cops said. The teenagers allegedly pulled guns and shot Johnson in the chest, back and head. The suspects fled. Police busted Martin on murder charges Friday at the Crown Motor Inn. Ashari Forrester, 18, was arrested at the same inn when he was found with a .32-caliber gun and charged with weapon possession.
* A man discovered what appeared to be a human skeleton in Soundview Park yesterday morning. The medical examiner will try to determine an identity and cause of death. (lcf)
* A 66-year-old man leaped to his death from his building on the Grand Concourse near 163rd Street, cops said. The body of the man, who was not identified, was discovered in the courtyard shortly after noon. His death was an apparent suicide. (lcf)
QUEENS
* A man who tried to steal a Channel 7 news van from under the noses of a crew shooting a report outside Elmhurst Hospital was stopped by a cameraman who jumped into the moving vehicle and pulled the thief out yesterday, cops said. Manny Sanchez, of Brooklyn, was arrested. The news crew was taping a report about a hit-and-run victim who was a patient at the hospital when Sanchez allegedly sneaked into the van and turned on the ignition. He was charged with attempted grand larceny. (lcf)
* A Rikers Island correction officer was busted for grabbing a woman’s breast on a buffet line in a Flushing restaurant, police said yesterday. Nathan Robinson was charged with sexual abuse after getting collared at Master Grill International on College Point Boulevard at around 9 p.m. Saturday.
* An NYPD detective and an FDNY firefighter were arrested early yesterday on DWI charges in separate incidents, police said yesterday. Peter Feeney, assigned to Engine Co. 313, was nabbed at 12:30 a.m. at Northern Boulevard and Marathon Parkway in Douglaston after getting into a vehicle accident. No one was injured. About four hours later, Detective Sean McLaughlin, assigned to the 46th Precinct in The Bronx, was busted after he struck another car while driving west on the eastbound lanes of the Grand Central Parkway near Francis Lewis Boulevard in Holliswood, cops said. McLaughlin, who was suspended, had minor injuries.
BROOKLYN
* Police busted a hit-and-run suspect early yesterday after he allegedly struck and critically injured a motorcyclist in Sheepshead Bay. Matatov Mordechai, 20, was driving a 1992 Honda Accord north on Ocean Avenue at around 2 a.m. when he collided with a 26-year-old man riding a motorcycle at the intersection of Avenue R, police said. The man was tossed from his bike and suffered head injuries. The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. Mordechai took off in his car but was later arrested at Ocean Avenue and Avenue O. He was charged with leaving the scene of an accident.
* An NYPD detective was suspended after being arrested for allegedly stealing CDs from a Price Club store in Suffolk County, police said yesterday. Michael Derbyshire, assigned to Brooklyn North Narcotics, was charged with petit larceny.
MANHATTAN
* A man struck a teenager in the face and spewed anti-gay insults at him on a Harlem street before fleeing, police said yesterday. The assault occurred at around 4 p.m. Saturday on West 149th Street. The 17-year-old victim, who was not seriously injured, refused medical attention.