The Bronx
Two men beat and robbed a parking-lot attendant in the West Bronx, authorities said Sunday. The thieves entered a parking lot attached to an apartment complex on East Burnside Avenue near Valentine Avenue at around midnight Saturday — and one of the men tried to open the door of one of the vehicles, police said. The attendant approached one of the men and said he would call police unless the man left, not realizing that the accomplice had sneaked off to the lot’s office and was waiting to ambush the worker, police said. When the victim entered the office to call 911, the thug jumped him. The first man then joined in and stole the clerk’s money and cellphone. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with cuts to the face and head.
Brooklyn
Investigators have released new surveillance images of a person wanted in the sexual assault of a woman in her Bedford-Stuyvesant home. The creep trailed the 36-year-old victim into her apartment building near Van Buren Street and Lewis Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 27, according to cops. The sicko followed the woman into the stairwell, where he forced down her pants and sexually abused her, police said. He fled when the woman fought back. The suspect is believed to be about 19 or 20 years old and about 5-foot-6 with a thin build.
Two men wanted for shooting two teenagers — one fatally — during a botched robbery in East New York last year have been arrested, police said Sunday. Ajuul Manwaring, 20, and Shaquille Escalaona, 17, tried to rob the two victims as they were sitting in the back of a livery cab on McClancy Place in East New York at around 6 p.m. on Dec. 19, according to police. When Aaron Parkinson, 19, and his 18-year-old pal refused to turn over their cellphones, one of the thugs unloaded the pistol into the car before fleeing, cops said. The livery-cab driver raced the two injured teens to Brookdale Hospital, but Parkinson could not be saved. The other victim survived with a graze wound to the shoulder. Manwaring and Escalaona were charged with murder and robbery, according to police.
This took a whole “lotto” gall. A teenage tough swiped several lottery tickets from a Coney Island deli and threatened the life of a worker who tried to stop him, cops said Sunday. The thug walked into the A&T Grocery on Stillwell Avenue near Mermaid Avenue at around 3:15 p.m. on March 16 and started helping himself to the scratch-off tickets, officials said. When confronted by a 26-year-old clerk, the creep shoved him backward and threatened to kill him before running off, cops said. The thief is believed to be about 18 years old, 6-feet tall and 160 pounds.
Manhattan
Two armed crooks knocked off a Lower East Side bodega early Friday, authorities said. The men burst into the deli on East Houston Street at around 3 a.m. and pistol-whipped the 52-year-old clerk, cops said.
The bandits ordered the injured worker to stay on the floor as they grabbed cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets, police said. The two also snatched the clerk’s iPhone 4 before fleeing, according to authorities.
Queens
A man tried to break into the Maspeth office of an environmental cleaning firm last month, investigators said Sunday. A witness spotted the would-be burglar tampering with the garage door of Maspeth Environmental Corp. on 46th Street near 54th Road at around 10 a.m. on Feb. 22, cops said. When approached by the witness, the prowler ran off. Police determined the man was trying to short out the garage-door switch.
Staten Island
Authorities have identified a suspect in a New Brighton shooting that landed a 41-year-old man in the hospital. Jahcaiy Moore, 21, blasted the victim in the left leg on Jersey Street near Layton Avenue at around 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 30, according to police. Investigators did not disclose a motive in the attack. The victim was treated at an area hospital. Moore stands 6-foot-1 and weighs 180 pounds.