MANHATTAN
Investigators are hunting for this bandit (pictured right) who is believed to have held up seven bank customers in the last week, cops said.
The suspect, identified as James Palmer, 37, has allegedly stuck up ATM users at bank locations in Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and Midtown.
He first struck last Saturday at a Chase Bank at 109 Delancey St. and then robbed a different victim each day until Thursday when he held up a woman at a Washington Mutual Bank at 1260 Broadway.
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A man was found dead in an East Side subway tunnel early yesterday, police said.
The 40-year-old man, whose name was not released, was seen running south on the No. 6 line trackbed at the 59th Street/Lexington Avenue station at 1 a.m.
Moments later he was found lying alongside the tracks in the tunnel with one hand on the third rail and the other on the running rail, authorities said.
BROOKLYN
Cops are searching for this thug (2nd image) who abducted a 15-year-old girl and raped her in an alleyway in Brownsville , police said yesterday.
On Wednesday at about 5:30 a.m., the man walked up behind the girl and grabbed her near the intersection of Dean Street and Saratoga Avenue, where he sexually assaulted her before running off.
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An off-duty city firefighter was busted in Bay Ridge after brawling with a city marshal over his car, authorities said yesterday.
Robert Speziale, 30, allegedly got hot under the collar while arguing with the marshal about his vehicle parked on 100th Street near Third Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.
Cops were called to break up the fracas and told Speziale to take a walk around the corner, calm down and deal with the car the following day, authorities said.
A few minutes later he came back and continued fighting, law-enforcement sources said.
Speziale, assigned to Engine 226 in Boerum Hill, flailed his arms and struggled while being arrested.
He was charged with menacing, official misconduct, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
THE BRONX
Two people were shot dead and one man was critically injured in a drug-related robbery in Claremont, police said.
Daniel Newton, 34, and Ludmildy Rosado, 20, were executed inside Newton’s apartment on the Grand Concourse near East 170th Street last Thursday night, cops said.
The survivor, 31-year-old Kevin Russo, was rushed to Lincoln Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, police said.
There was no forced entry into the second-floor apartment and authorities said Newton and the surviving victim were suspected drug dealers.
Cops found a kilo of cocaine in the refrigerator as well as heroin, $5,000 and three handguns inside the apartment.
QUEENS
Three teens were nabbed for swiping a phone from two youths in Flushing, authorities said.
Anthony Dryden, 17, allegedly accosted the two victims, an 18-year-old and 16-year-old, at the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue and Bowne Street at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday.
The younger teen was using his older pal’s cellphone when Dryden crept up behind him and snatched the device out of his hand and ran, law-enforcement sources said.
The 16-year-old chased Dryden, but was stopped when Jensen Blackman, 18, stepped in front of him.
Dryden then jumped into a car with Samuel Chadwick, 18.
Cops pulled over the car five minutes later and arrested the trio.
The three are charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
STATEN ISLAND
Four people were arrested when cops raided a room at a Midland Beach motel, authorities said.
Ella Lindsey, 32, Vincent Tranchina, 40, Nicole Enea, 30, and Salvatore Enea, 43, were collared at the Midland Motor Inn on Midland Avenue near Patterson Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
Detectives found seven bags of crack and three crack pipes in the room.
The four are charged with drug possession, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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A boozed-up Florida man plowed his car into a light pole in Arlington, law-enforcement sources said.
Suleyman Fidan, 31, of Orlando, blew through a red light before he crashed a 2001 Audi on Forest Avenue near Dwarf Street at 2:49 a.m. Thursday, the sources said.
When cops tried to pull over Fidan, he kept driving and slammed into a parked car, a fence and finally a light pole, authorities said.
Fidan was charged with drunken driving, driving while impaired and reckless driving, a Donovan spokesman said.
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A Midland Beach man held his mother hostage until she gave him money, authorities said yesterday.
Michael Smith, 29, allegedly shoved his 51-year-old mother, taped her mouth shut, threw a blanket over her head and would not let her leave their Midland Avenue home near Moreland Street at 6 p.m. Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.
He finally let her go after she gave him $50, the sources said.
Smith was charged with robbery, criminal possession of stolen property, assault and unlawful imprisonment, said a Donovan spokesman.