THE BRONX
* Police are seeking information about the death of a Morris Heights father-of-two who disappeared three weeks ago.
Police yesterday identified Vernal Colin Scott (above) through dental records after his body was found in the trunk of a Toyota Camry with Maryland license plates that had been parked on Wright Avenue in Eastchester for weeks.
Police hope someone may have seen him before he vanished. The cause of death was not known. (lcf)
* Detectives busted another member of a gang that terrorized a Mott Haven housing project after tracking him to his cousin’s Connecticut home, authorities said yesterday.
Cops from the 40th Precinct along with FBI agents, broke down the door of the Bradley Avenue residence in Waterbury at 7 a.m. Tuesday, arrested Nelson Martinez, 32, and charged him with federal drug conspiracy.
Sources said police had tracked Martinez’s cellphone calls.
MANHATTAN (s, lcf)
* An Inwood mother was arrested yesterday, two weeks after she abandoned her 6-month-old baby in the stairwell of a housing project, cops said. Police charged Ana Della Vives, 20, with child abandonment and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly leaving the baby girl in a stroller under a stairwell at 685 Academy St. The child now lives with a foster family.
BROOKLYN
* An East Flatbush man was arrested for stabbing his live-in girlfriend after she ignored his request to hand over the TV remote control, authorities said.
On April 10, Steven Davis, 37, allegedly used a kitchen knife to stab a 49-year- old woman who shared an East 91st Street apartment with him.
The woman, who received seven stitches to close a wound on her arm, was too scared to report the incident to police, but told her landlord on Tuesday. The landlord notified cops who arrested Davis.
* A 34-year-old man was shot and critically wounded yesterday at a Brownsville housing project, police said.
James Wimms, of Queens, was playing dice with a group of men outside the Glenmore Houses at 109 Christopher Ave. about 12:10 a.m. when a dispute erupted, police sources said.
One of the men pulled a gun and shot Wimms in the back and stomach, cops said.
* A teenager has been arrested for slashing a man in a gang attack on a Crown Heights street, authorities said yesterday.
At 7 p.m. on Feb. 17, Lahme Perkins, 18, and about six accomplices confronted their 22-year-old victim at McKeever Place near Montgomery Street, sources said.
After a struggle in which he was cut on the hand, the victim fled and contacted police. Perkins was captured on Tuesday.
* Two men were shot on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street, police sources said yesterday.
The victims, ages 17 and 22, clashed with a 23-year-old suspect, with whom they are acquainted, on Howard Avenue about 5:30 p.m. Monday.
The assailant pulled a gun and fired about three shots, hitting the victims in the feet. The wounded men were rushed to Woodhull Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.
QUEENS
* An Ozone Park car-dealership employee and his neighbor were charged with grand larceny on Tuesday after cops busted their stolen-car sales ring.
Police served two warrants at the houses of Yahshik Macoon, 31, and Richard Jagram, 33, on 130th and 131st streets in Ozone Park, where they seized eight stolen cars, cops said.
STATEN ISLAND
* A 29-year-old man was arrested for beating his girlfriend and threatening to slash her with a knife in his Port Richmond home, court records show.
A criminal complaint said Carlos Rosa slugged his girlfriend in the face in his Harrison Street residence about 8 a.m. Tuesday.