MANHATTAN (lcf)
* A subway token booth clerk was arrested yesterday for allegedly selling stolen MetroCards to commuters at the Midtown station where he worked.
Joseph Campbell, 52, was arrested at the 34th Street and Eighth Avenue station yesterday after allegedly buying the stolen cards from an unknown accomplice and selling them to unsuspecting commuters, police sources said.
Transit authority officials did not return a request for comment.
* Two men were showered with bullets while standing on a Harlem street corner last night, cops said.
The men, 16 and 26, whose names were withheld, were at 131st Street and 5th Avenue at about 9 p.m. when the shooter unleashed a barrage of gunfire, cops said.
The 26-year-old was hit four times, taking bullets in the back, neck and leg. He was taken to Harlem hospital where he was listed in critical condition. The 16-year-old was hit once in the leg. He was in stable condition.
BROOKLYN
* A Bedford-Stuyvesant woman was arrested for beating her ex-boyfriend with an umbrella, authorities said yesterday.
Sources said Xiomara Worm, 43, confronted her 62-year-old former boyfriend at Lexington and Tompkins avenues at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, angry that he had moved from the home they were sharing. Worm allegedly whacked the man in the head and body and snatched his gold chain.
* A bandit was arrested for roughing up a storeowner and stealing money and merchandise from a Brownsville bodega, authorities said yesterday.
Richard Morgridge, 28, walked into the Y&N Rutland Deli Grocery on Rutland Road at 1 p.m. Wednesday while two accomplices stood outside , sources said.
Morgridge allegedly grabbed a beer from the refrigerated display case, put it on the counter and told the 34-year-old storeowner he was not paying for it.
In an ensuing argument, Morgridge allegedly three several packages of stockings at the storeowner, hitting him in the face, kicked him and hit him in the head with a stick.
During the attack, the accomplices stepped inside and one of them took $80 from the register. The other swiped several cakes.
Police were called and arrested Morgridge a short time later. The accomplices were at large.
* Two teenagers were arrested after damaging property and tossing eggs at pedestrians while driving recklessly in Gravesend, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, when Eldar Golan, 16, and Yaniv Hanimov, 17, kicked the front door at the East Third Street residence of a 15-year-old male acquaintance, breaking the door frame, sources said.
The parties had been involved in a longstanding argument over money, the sources said.
After the acquaintance called cops, Golan and Hanimov allegedly sped away in a Toyota sedan and hurled eggs at pedestrians.
Police spotted the pair near East Eighth Street and Avenue Y and followed their Toyota, which drove through a red light and ran several stop signs, the sources said.
Finally, the two stopped the vehicle and were arrested.
QUEENS
* A pimp was arrested for trying to force three prostitutes to have sex with an undercover cop in Flushing, authorities said yesterday.
Faustino Hernandez, 47, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with promoting prostitution, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
* An alleged pervert was arrested after an MTA custodian caught him masturbating in a bathroom at a Flushing subway station, authorities said yesterday.
Diego Pinos, 36, was busted on Tuesday and charged with public lewdness, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
Pinos was caught in the act Tuesday by the MTA custodian in the restroom of the 71st/Continental Avenue station on Queens Boulevard, sources said.
THE BRONX
* Police yesterday identified the man whose bullet-ridden corpse was found sprawled on a stairwell off the Willis Avenue Bridge in Mott Haven.
A sanitation worker found Richard Cabrera, 27, of East Harlem, with three gunshots in his back on the stairwell leading down to Bruckner Boulevard at 8:05 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Police sources said Cabrera possessed no ID, but were able to identify him through his fingerprints.
STATEN ISLAND
* A woman was arrested on child-endangerment charges in Stapleton after she got drunk and left her young grandchildren unattended, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday, when a city correction employee saw a 2-year-old boy standing in the rain outside his grandmother’s house at 63 Gordon St., sources said.
When the employee went to investigate, he found Ruth Lott, 51, drunk and semi-conscious inside her residence.
The worker also discovered a 9-month-old girl in a crib.
Both children were left unattended, but were apparently not injured. The worker called police, and Lott was arrested.
Sources said the children live with the grandmother, who told cops their parents were at work at the time.
* Three masked gunmen shot and critically wounded a man during an apparent robbery yesterday in his Mariners Harbor home, police said.
The assailants, wearing dark clothing and ski masks, shot Ricardo Rodriguez, 35, in the head in his Lake Avenue home, according to sources.
Cops later searched his home and reported finding three bricks of crack cocaine worth about $32,000 in a safe, along with a gun.