Manhattan
Detectives are hunting for a thief who made off with thousands of dollars from three Harlem banks.
The unidentified man struck March 8, 9 and 31, walking into each bank, passing a note demanding money and then making off with nearly $10,000 from two of the financial institutions. He failed to get cash from the third.
He struck at the Citibank at 2481 Seventh Ave., Bank of America at 106 W. 117th St. and Wells Fargo at 143 Lenox Ave.
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A pervert was busted after he molested a woman in the Financial District, police sources said yesterday.
Salvatore Ingrassia, 35, allegedly accosted the woman as she walked along Fulton Street at Cliff Street early Wednesday, sources said.
Ingrassia allegedly touched her buttocks and fled, but was captured the next day.
Queens
Three men shouting anti-gay slurs were arrested after beating up three people in Jackson Heights, authorities said.
Gustavo Rojas, 26, Abel Cabrera-Rojas, 31, and Luis Franco, 27, allegedly approached two women, ages 23 and 29, and a 28-year-old man after the Gay Pride Parade on Roosevelt Avenue and 78th Street at about 7 p.m. June 5, according to a spokeswoman for Queens DA Richard Brown.
The thugs called the victims “dykes and faggots” in Spanish while punching and kicking them, authorities said.
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A man was fatally shot inside his Far Rockaway apartment building, police said.
Yommaine Hunter, 23, was found with two bullet wounds to his head in the fourth-floor hallway on Beach 56th Street near Beach Channel Drive at about 2:50 p.m. Sunday, police said.
Brooklyn
Three thugs brutally beat a man after they insulted his girlfriend on a Sunset Park street, authorities said yesterday.
Juan Ramirez and two accomplices had poked fun at the woman as she walked with her boyfriend at Eighth Avenue and 61st Street at 8:10 a.m. Saturday, sources said.
During an ensuing argument, one of the cohorts bashed the boyfriend in the head with a crowbar, then punched and kicked him along with the other assailants. Police arrested Ramirez, but the other two got away.
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A 17-year-old boy showed up at Kings County Hospital last Thursday with stab wounds and a strange story.
The unidentified teen ambled into the emergency room at about 10:50 p.m. with two stab wounds to the back. Doctors called police, and the teen told cops he had been attacked by a knife-wielding stranger outside the Luna Park amusement area at about 6 p.m., a police source said.
The teen had not reported the attack and showed up at the hospital in a private vehicle, a police source said.
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Police arrested a thug in connection with a deadly Brownsville shooting.
Ronald McMikle, 57, was nabbed shortly after cops discovered the victim, whose identity has not yet been released, outside St. Marks Avenue near Saratoga Avenue at 3:05 p.m. Sunday.
Staten Island
A hothead was busted for slugging a cop outside the St. George police station and drunken driving, authorities said.
An intoxicated John Grady, 49, was causing a ruckus outside the 120th Precinct on Richmond Terrace near Bark Street at 1:21 p.m. Saturday when a cop asked him to leave, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Grady became irate and punched the officer, authorities said. Cops arrested him — and then realized they had seen him driving minutes before. They found an empty beer bottle, plus five more unopened beer bottles, in his car.
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A creep briefly held his wife hostage after slipping into her Tompkinsville home, authorities said.
Alex Desderio, 27, allegedly followed the woman from a nightclub on Bay Street to her home on Beach Street near Van Duzer Street at 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Staten Island DA.
He then grabbed her by the neck and forced his way inside before locking her in the bathroom for 10 to 15 minutes, authorities said. Police responded to a 911 call and arrested Desderio.