Queens
The knife-wielding thief pictured here is being sought for choking a man and swiping his cellphone in an elevator at a Far Rockaway apartment building, cops said.
The suspect followed the 45-year-old victim into the elevator at the building on Caffrey Avenue near Davies Road at 2:50 a.m. on April 10, police said.
The thug shoved and choked the man, then snatched his cell and cash at knifepoint before fleeing, cops said.
The thief, about 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, was wearing a black jacket with orange writing on the back.
Bronx
A hooker was arrested for soliciting an undercover cop in Wakefield, police said yesterday.
Shirley Dasilva, 31, sauntered up to the officer on the corner of Matilda Avenue and East 242nd Street at about 3 a.m. Thursday, cops said.
She allegedly offered the cop sex in exchange for $100. The undercover alerted back-up police, who busted Dasilva.
Brooklyn
A Brownsville man was busted yesterday after police found him with a gun — and bullets attached to a powerful firecracker, authorities said
Ramon Lopez, 53, got into an argument with his 49-year-old wife at about 1 a.m. in their residence on Howard Avenue, cops said. A 13-year-old was there at the time.
Police responded to a call of a domestic dispute and discovered the revolver, along with an M80. Nine bullets, some of them .22-caliber, were taped to the explosive, police said.
Lopez was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
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A Bedford-Stuyvesant woman came home to find burglars ransacking her place, police sources said yesterday.
The burglars had used a baseball bat to smash a basement window and slip into the building on Kosciusko Street near Tompkins Avenue on Friday afternoon. They then headed to the woman’s top-floor apartment.
The woman arrived to see at least one of the intruders at her door.
Realizing they had been spotted, the crooks fled with money and items such as a TV. The TV was later recovered in the back yard.
One suspect, an unnamed 16-year-old boy, was later brought to the 81st Precinct by a relative and charged with burglary.
Manhattan
Fast-acting police nabbed two muggers who snatched a cellphone from a man in Greenwich Village, cops said yesterday.
Romaine Graham, 19, and Kervenson Pierre, 18, confronted the victim, 21, on Broadway at Ninth Street at 2:30 a.m. Thursday, police said.
The pair allegedly snatched the victim’s phone and ran off. Nearby cops dashed after the duo and quickly grabbed them.
The suspects were charged with attempted robbery.
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Two women have been busted for smashing another woman in the head with a glass in an Upper West Side bar, police said yesterday.
For unknown reasons, Ruby Johnson, 27, and her accomplice, 25, accosted the 25-year-old woman from behind in the saloon on Amsterdam Avenue near West 80th Street at 2:45 a.m. April 12, cops said.
The pair threw the woman to the ground and hit in the face with the glass, causing lacerations that required stitches, police said. The pair then fled.
The alleged accomplice was caught Tuesday and charged with assault. Her name was not available.
Johnson was apprehended the next day on the same charge.
Staten Island
A boozy motorist was busted after he pulled up to the toll plaza at the Verrazano Bridge, cops said yesterday.
Leon Karpinski, 22, drove a 2001 white Ford up to the plaza at around 1:30 a.m. Friday, when police noticed he reeked of booze and had bloodshot, watery eyes, cops said.
He was given a Breathalyzer test, which he failed, blowing more than 1½ times the legal limit, law-enforcement sources said.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Karpinski was charged with DWI.