Brooklyn
Well, he’s certainly no Romeo.
A brute punched a woman in the face — for rebuffing his advances in a Brownsville food store, cops said yesterday.
Frank Odom, 57, allegedly sought to chat up the 43-year-old stranger as she tried to enjoy her dinner in the shop on Rockaway Boulevard and Somers Street at 7:49 p.m. Saturday.
When she ignored him, an enraged Odom grabbed her, threw her to the ground and slugged her, breaking her glasses, cops said.
The woman immediately called 911, and Odom was arrested at the scene and charged with criminal mischief and attempted assault.
The woman was not seriously injured.
Staten Island
A contractor pocketed $120,000 by falsifying payroll records for a demolition job at the Howland Hook container terminal in Mariners Harbor, authorities said yesterday.
Richard Efferen, 53, the owner of Atlas Engineering and Maintenance, was hired to level buildings at the shipping port. The contract specified that he was to pay 25 union workers and forward funds for fringe benefits to the Mason Tenders District Council, according to court papers.
But a recently completed audit uncovered that between January and July in 2009, he allegedly kept the money that had been earmarked for the union.
He was arrested yesterday and charged with grand larceny.
Manhattan
A couple and an accomplice held up a Penn Station pharmacy, then divvied up the loot, authorities said.
On July 29, Christophe Gaillard, 37, and Damaryliz Gutierrez, 22, allegedly barged into the manager’s office at the underground Duane Reade in the Midtown transit hub, flashed what appeared to be a gun and fled with approximately $15,000.
The duo and Gaillard’s wife, Rhina Tavarez, 33, were arrested on Nov. 1 and charged with grand larceny, cops said.
Investigators found text messages on Tavarez’s phone warning her associates, cops said.
“Any guns in the house. Put the gun in the garbage but wrap it up. Delete our texts,” she allegedly wrote.
Tavarez confessed to police that Gaillard took the cash and divided it into three piles of about $5,000 each, court papers say.
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Two thugs have been arrested in connection with the brutal assault and robbery of an East Harlem man — after the crime-scene team pulled their prints off the carelessly discarded weapon, authorities said.
Investigators said Kurkwood Johnson, 31, David Brown, 30, and an accomplice forced the man into his apartment, on East 124th Street near Second Avenue, at 8:51 a.m. on Oct. 10.
They demanded that he give them the combination to his safe and then pistol-whipped him before heartlessly shooting him four times, cops said.
The trio then fled — but not before ditching a stolen cellphone and the BB gun in the hallway, police said.
The man was treated at Harlem Hospital for a collapsed lung and has since been released.
Johnson and Brown were picked up on Nov. 2 and charged with burglary, robbery, assault and kidnapping.
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A scam artist installed two ATM-card-skimming devices in an Upper East Side bank, authorities said.
A security camera captured Cornelius Doanca, 29, placing the illegal electronic gizmos on ATMs at the Chase branch on East 86th Street near York Avenue at 7 p.m. Nov. 1, according to court papers.
The devices record debit-card and PINs as account holders use the cash machines.
Doanca was busted later that night when he returned to retrieve the skimmers, cops said.
The bank estimated that at least 50 people used the ATMs in the two hours the devices were active.
Doanca was charged with burglary and criminal possession of forgery devices.
The Bronx
A 40-year-old man was discovered dead yesterday in his Bronxwood home.
Officers responding to a call regarding an unconscious man found him in his residence on Barnes Avenue near Williamsbridge Road at 10:30 a.m., police said.
The cause of death was not immediately clear.