Brooklyn
Police arrested 13 gang members involved in a citywide drug and gun ring, authorities said yesterday.
Undercover cops purchased more than $40,000 of crack and powder cocaine and seven guns in their probe of the so-called Miller Time Bloods, police said.
The gang acted as wholesalers, selling drugs to street-level dealers in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Canarsie as well as in Queens and upper Manhattan, police said.
Among the arrests, police this week busted Harold Stevenson, 42, Corey James, 40, and Joshua Middleton, 27, ranking members of the New York Bloods, authorities said.
They will be charged with federal drug conspiracy and firearms trafficking, authorities said.
Queens
A 4-year-old child was killed in a four-car collision in Laurelton, police said yesterday.
The horrific crash occurred on Laurelton Parkway at Francis Lewis Boulevard at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
A 26-year-old driver in a 2006 Ford heading south on the parkway slammed into the back of a 1992 BMW carrying Jacinda Stevens, police said.
The child was critically injured when her safety belt broke loose. Two cars then hit the BMW.
The child was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she died, cops said.
No charges were filed against any of the drivers.
A barber shot during a robbery in St. Albans last Friday has died, police said yesterday.
Raheem Greys, 33 was shot in the chest by two masked bandits in the barber shop on Farmers Boulevard near 110th Road at 8:30 p.m.
Greys was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he died Tuesday, cops said.
Manhattan
Cops are hunting for a Chinatown predator who approached two young girls with offers of money, police said yesterday.
On Sept. 23, the man walked up to a 10-year-old girl entering her Henry Street apartment building and offered her money, cops said.
The girl screamed and the creep ran off, sources said.
He was described as 5-foot-9 and heavyset, with a potbelly, brown eyes, brown hair pulled back and a goatee, police said.
On Sunday, the man, behind the wheel of a green Jeep, pulled up to a 9-year-old girl on Pike Street and offered her money, cops said.
The girl shouted and the man sped off, sources said.
Two thieves beat and robbed a livery driver in Greenwich Village, authorities said yesterday.
Jason Velasquez, 23, and an accomplice approached the driver at Christopher and Greenwich streets at 2:30 a.m. Monday, sources said.
When they asked to be taken to Brooklyn, the driver refused.
A fight ensued and Velasquez reached through a window and grabbed the driver’s eyeglasses, cops said.
When the driver jumped out, Velasquez allegedly socked him in the face.
The victim called 911 and Velasquez was soon busted and charged with robbery, a DA spokeswoman said. The accomplice fled.
A Manhattan burglar who swiped cash and credit cards in three incidents has been captured, authorities said yesterday.
According to a court complaint, Andrew Mateu, 30, began his crime spree at the NBC Experience store at 30 Rockefeller Center at 2:40 p.m. on Aug. 2.
Mateu allegedly slipped inside a restricted area, forced open a door to the cash room and swiped $2,700 from an open safe.
On Sept. 9, he allegedly broke into a restricted basement area of The Eatery at 798 Ninth Ave.
After about 15 minutes, cops said, an employee spotted him and he fled. He later struck at a restaurant on Lexington Avenue near East 62nd Street, swiping a woman’s wallet containing Victoria’s Secret and American Express cards, cops said.
Images of Mateu were captured on video surveillance, leading to his arrest Sunday on charges of burglary and grand larceny, a DA spokeswoman said.
Staten Island
A couple swiped a neighbor’s washing machine and assaulted her in Grasmere, authorities said yesterday.
On Sept. 24, Tatiana Garcia, 18, allegedly broke into her neighbor’s ground-floor apartment on Kramer Street near Norway Avenue, cops said.
She carted away the machine and stashed it in her own third-floor apartment, sources said.
On Sept. 29, the neighbor arrived home to find Garcia and her boyfriend asleep on her couch, the sources said.
When she confronted the couple, the man threw her against the wall and punched her in the face, court papers allege.
Garcia was arrested on charges of burglary, assault and criminal possession of stolen property, said a spokesman for the DA Daniel Donovan.
Her boyfriend was at large last night.