STATEN ISLAND
*** An 82-year-old woman has disappeared and the NYPD is asking for the public’s help in locating her.
Eleanor West was last seen at 3 p.m. Wednesday near her residence at 1150 Castleton Avenue, in New Brighton.
She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue sweat pants, a visor and a fanny pack around her waist.
THE BRONX
*** Detectives are probing the apparently drug-related slaying of an Alabama man who was gunned down in the Kingsbridge section, sources said.
Corey Moore, 20, who resided in Birmingham but had been staying with his grandmother in The Bronx, was shot four times in the chest on Fort Independence Street at 4:26 a.m. Friday, police said.
He was taken to Columbia Presbyterian’s Allen Pavilion Hospital, where he was declared dead.
A police official said that Moore appeared to have been the intended target and that he was in the possession of more than 100 bags of crack cocaine when he died.
MANHATTAN
*** A man found trespassing in a Washington Heights apartment building was arrested for drug possession – and then hit with a charge of bribery when he tried to buy his freedom by offering to pay off two cops, authorities said.
Two cops assigned to the 33rd Precinct, Rafi Hernandez and Richard Santiago, spotted Argentle Santos, 24, inside a staircase at 2104 Amsterdam Ave. at 10:55 p.m. Friday, and he was arrested for alleged marijuana possession and trespassing.
A further search yielded 30 bags of crack cocaine and more than $1,000 in cash, a police source said.
Santos made matters worse for himself when he offered the two cops the cash and drugs in return for his release, officials said. He was then charged with bribery.
*** Cops are looking for burglars who broke into a jewelry store on the Upper West Side and escaped with an undetermined amount of loot.
The caper unfolded at 4:30 a.m. Friday when a ringing alarm at the Roslyn Jewelry Store, at 276 Columbus Ave., brought a security guard from the alarm company to the premises, and he called police.
BROOKLYN
*** Cops have arrested a teenage boy for the knifepoint mugging of a fellow 15-year-old, police said yesterday.
Police said the victim had been standing near the token-booth clerk in the Shepherd Avenue subway station in East New York at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, talking on his cellphone, when the teenage thug approached and tried to grab the phone.
When the victim attempted to wrest back his phone, the assailant produced a knife before running off with the phone.
A passing cop saw the mugger fleeing and arrested him, recovering the knife and the phone.
The suspect, whose name is being withheld because of his age, faces robbery and weapons-possession charges as a juvenile in Family Court.
*** Anti-Semitic graffiti has been found in a Brighton Beach building, police said yesterday.
Police were summoned to 211 Brighton 15th St. at 10:16 a.m. Friday after a caller found a swastika and “SS” written in a hallway.
QUEENS
*** The death of a child whose body washed up on the shoreline of the Rockaways in February has been declared a homicide, police and the medical examiner said.
The boy, believed to have been between 3 and 4 years old, was found on Feb. 5 on Rockaway Beach near 112th Street wrapped in a Mickey Mouse blanket.
The body had been stuffed inside a canvas duffel bag that may have once had a drawstring on top of it.