Manhattan
A thieving housekeeper and a male accomplice were busted for stealing nearly $5,000 from a 97-year-old woman in a check scam on the Upper West Side, authorities said yesterday.
Fresia Montoya, 28, and Robert Coello, 42, were arrested last Thursday and charged with grand larceny, said a DA spokeswoman.
In May, Montoya was hired by the victim, Mary Weinman, to clean her apartment on West 89th Street near Broadway.
Weinman, a retired vendor for Saks Fifth Avenue, told The Post Montoya stole about 10 checks from her.
According to a court complaint, Coello forged the stolen checks totaling $4,900 and deposited them into his own account.
A shot and seriously wounded bouncer woke up weeks later from a medically induced coma and identified the alleged gunman, leading to the suspect’s capture, authorities said yesterday.
The bouncer broke up a fight involving suspected triggerman Jason Pagan, 21, outside a saloon at Avenue A and East 5th Street at about 4:10 a.m. on May 10.
Pagan left, but soon returned with a gun and shot the bouncer in the chest, sources said.
Bellevue Hospital doctors placed the victim in a medically induced coma for several weeks. When he awoke, he picked out Pagan in a photo array, and police arrested the suspect last Thursday.
A DA spokeswoman said Pagan was charged with attempted murder.
A Bronx man brutally beat an acquaintance with a cane on a Midtown street, authorities said yesterday.
James Wright, 40, allegedly clashed with Allen Duncan, 40, at West 34th Street and Eighth Avenue at 7 p.m. last Friday.
Wright pummeled Duncan, knocking him to the ground, officials said, then repeatedly whacked him on the head with the cane, sources said.
Wright was charged with assault and weapon possession.
Queens
Cops are hunting the suspect pictured above and a cohort who have knocked over a string of jewelry shops in Queens and Manhattan.
In eight robberies, the thugs stormed into the stores, smashed glass display cases with hammers and took off with cash and jewelry, sources said.
The team first struck in July at Cosmo’s Department Store on Northern Boulevard near 150th Place in Flushing.
A month later, they targeted the Carat N Karat jewelers on Main Street near 37th Avenue in Flushing.
In October, they moved into Manhattan, hitting Time Collection of New York on Sixth Avenue near West 47th Street, then returned to Carat N Karat.
They most recently struck at James and Co. Jewelry on Fifth Avenue near East 47th Street in Manhattan on June 7.
Brooklyn
Three muggers were arrested after they attacked a man in Sunset Park, authorities said yesterday.
Auro Bernabe, 22, Edgar Vasquez, 26, and Cesar Escobar, 22, set upon the 33-year-old victim at Fifth Avenue and 58th Street at 3:50 a.m. Monday, sources said.
The trio allegedly punched and kicked the victim and beat, then swiped his wallet and cellphone and dashed into a nearby apartment building.
As a cop searched the building, he noticed an apartment door ajar and the victim’s red wallet on a desk inside. The trio was charged with assault and robbery.
Two foul-mouthed hoodlums were arrested for throwing garbage at a cop and spraying him with water in Williamsburg, authorities said yesterday.
Daniel Still, 22, and Joel Reyes, 20, allegedly cursed a passing officer and tossed chicken bones and bottle caps from a third-floor landing at a South 10th Street building near Berry Street at 6 p.m. on May 29.
They also hurled a water balloon and splashed him, sources said.
The cop chased the suspects into an apartment, where he nabbed Reyes on charges of attempted assault and harassment.
Still escaped, but was captured Monday and hit with the same charges.
A reputed Bloods gang member was arrested in connection with the slaying of a 17-year-old girl in New Brighton, police said yesterday.
DaShawn Mitchell, 17, was arrested Monday and charged with murder stemming from the May 28 shooting at Carson Avenue near Westervelt Avenue.
Investigators said Mitchell was among several men who fired at Najea Smith’s home. The bullets tore through a door, hitting the girl in the neck. A friend, also 17, was struck in the buttocks. Smith died at Richmond University Hospital on June 3.
Sources said the intended target was Smith’s brother in an ongoing battle between gangs from New Brighton and Stapleton.
Mitchell’s alleged accomplice, Latiek Briggs, 17, was arrested on June 1 and charged with murder.