A 15-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder near Crotona Park, and cops are looking for his assailant — who may be among those seen running from the scene in this surveillance photo (above). (
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The Bronx
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When cops smelled pot coming from a Williamsburg party bus, they transferred its 39 occupants to an empty MTA bus and then drove each of them in for questioning, police said.
Uniformed cops in an unmarked car first noticed the bus, parked on East 219th Street and White Plains Road, at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
When it was still parked there two hours later, the cops drove by to investigate — and recognized the aroma of marijuana wafting out the front door, police sources said.
But then the officers boarded the vehicle and found three loaded guns, the sources said.
And when several of the passengers tried to flee, the cops decided to hold all of them, grab a city bus and take the whole party in for questioning.
The slow-moving stoners said they planned to visit Times Square, but it was unclear whether they ever made it off the block.
The six people found closest to the guns were charged with weapon possession, three others were charged with pot possession and held on open warrants, and four more were issued summonses for pot possession and released, the sources said.
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A 15-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder near Crotona Park, and cops are looking for his assailant — who may be among those seen running from the scene in this surveillance photo.
The teen was at Boston Road and Jefferson Place at 8:50 p.m. Thursday when he felt a jolt in the left shoulder, police said. He was listed as being in stable condition last night at Lincoln Hospital.
The people seen fleeing the scene all appear to also be in their teens, and the victim is not cooperating with investigators, leading to a theory that the shooting may be gang-related, sources said.
Manhattan
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Champagne taste on a burglar’s budget will take you down every time.
Shawn James, 28, broke into a trendy Meatpacking District restaurant through a side door, went behind the bar and stole three bottles of bubbly at about 7:30 a.m. on May 13, a Criminal Court complaint says.
He was caught red handed — toting the bottles in a black bag — after leaving Catch, on Ninth Avenue off West 13th Street, and charged with burglary, according to the court papers.
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A New Jersey man snatched a wallet from a woman in a West Village speak-easy, found a debit card in it and tried to use it — in the same bar, officials said.
The woman noticed the theft when she went to pay her tab in Employees Only, a Prohibition-theme Hudson Street establishment, sources said.
She later discovered that Luis Nadal, 26, was allegedly trying to use the card there.
The transaction was denied, and Nadal was arrested and charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and attempted petit larceny, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Brooklyn
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Police are trying to determine the identity of a bicyclist who was fatally struck when he veered in front of a livery cab near the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Heights early yesterday.
He was eastbound on Eastern Parkway between Underhill and Washington avenues at about 1:15 a.m. when he tried to get ahead of the car, which was heading in the same direction, cops said.
The bicyclist, who was not carrying identification, was described as appearing to be in his mid-30s.
The driver stayed at the scene, and police said no criminality was suspected.
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They took their fight inside.
A man fired two or three shots into a Canarsie deli, then barged in and began swinging at a patron waiting for his sandwich, cops said.
“They started fighting . . . punching each other in the aisles,” said cashier Eduardo Leonardo, 52.
The men wrestled each other down to the floor until it suddenly hit the gunman that someone had likely called 911, whereupon he up and fled.
No one was shot or reported being injured, cops said, and neither the patron nor his assailant had been taken into custody as of last night.
Staten Island
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Twenty-one Yemeni nationals were charged with drug possession yesterday after a police raid of a Port Richmond bodega turned up 13 sandwich bags filled with marijuana and khat, police said.
Khat, a Middle Eastern plant chewed as a stimulant, is illegal in the United States.
Hady Ahmed, 46, owner of the Welcome Deli, was among those arrested.
His lawyer, Hank Greenberg, said, “This is a very weak case, and we intend to prove it.”
Each of the 21 men was arraigned in Staten Island Criminal Court and released on his own recognizance, and each of them declined to comment upon leaving the courthouse.
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