The serial stick-up artist pictured above has been targeting food cart vendors in the neighborhoods surrounding the Queens Center Mall, police said.
The brazen thug pictured above failed in his attempt to mug a man at a Coney Island bank, police said.
Manhattan
Police yesterday released the photo left of a robber who allegedly made off with $1,960 from a Kips Bay bank.
The suspect fled with the loot after passing a teller a demand note in the Capital One branch at 245 E. 34th St. at 9:50 a.m. on Feb. 15, cops said.
Brooklyn
The brazen thug pictured failed in his attempt to mug a man at a Coney Island bank, police said.
The would-be robber came up from behind and grabbed the 26-year-old victim at the Chase branch on West 17th Street at 3:50 p.m. on March 7, police added.
The hood punched the customer in the cheek and tried to pry cash from his hands, police said, but finally gave up and fled empty-handed.
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In this economy, people will do anything for money.
Take Devon Dawkins, 17, who allegedly made a $200 bet with pals and went streaking to win the cash.
He got completely naked and ran down a Bed-Stuy street, cops said.
He was busted for public lewdness.
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A Cobble Hill HS employee was arrested yesterday for groping a student, police said.
Frank Ocasio, 34, walked up to the student — an 18-year-old senior — and allegedly touched her inappropriately as she was making a phone call.
He was charged with forcible touching.
Ocasio, a community associate at the school, was suspended without pay, a Department of Education spokesman said.
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It’s hard to find good help these days.
A crooked deli employee stole $1,300 from his employer at a Clinton Hill bodega, cops said.
The suspect started a conversation with a fellow worker behind the counter of the King of Classon Avenue Deli & Grocery at 2:40 p.m. on March 1, but then swiped a paper bag full of money from a shelf above the register and strolled off, cops added.
Surveillance footage showed the worker — whose name wasn’t immediately revealed — taking the loot.
Staten Island
A speeding drunken driver slammed into two vehicles near Silver Lake before peeling off and eventually passing out behind the wheel, authorities said.
Kenneth Slizewski, 38, was behind the wheel of a ’95 Chevy when he allegedly sideswiped a Volvo and a Jeep on Victory Boulevard near Woodstock Avenue at around 5 a.m. Sunday.
He continued along Victory before his damaged car came to a halt in front of an apartment building, cops said.
Responding officers found Slizewski asleep and took him into custody on a DWI rap, cops added.
“I didn’t hit anything. I wasn’t drinking. My car was already damaged,” he allegedly claimed as cops slapped the cuffs on him.
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A drunken Great Kills man punched his wife and choked her after she asked him to stop blasting his music, authorities said.
Jamal Lavan, 35, allegedly slugged his wife and chipped her tooth at 1:45 a.m. yesterday in their home on Hylan Boulevard.
Her horrified daughter dialed 911 and Lavan was arrested for assault and criminal obstruction of breathing, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Queens
The serial stick-up artist pictured has been targeting food cart vendors in the neighborhoods surrounding the Queens Center Mall, police said.
The gunman began his robbery spree on March 2 when he robbed three vendors.
On March 5 he struck twice more.
The crook resumed his crime binge on March 10 and committed four more robberies, including the mugging of a 60-year-old livery driver at 90th Street and 56th Avenue in Elmhurst, police said.
He has committed nine known holdups so far, cops said.
No victim has been harmed, police said.