Brooklyn
Investigators released this sketch of a knife-wielding creep who mugged two women on separate occasions in East New York. At 9 p.m. on April 14 at Atlantic Avenue and Linwood Street, the thief pressed an object to the back of a 72-year-old woman, pushed her to the pavement and ran off with her purse, cops said. On April 21 at 5:55 p.m. with knife in hand, he approached a 64-year-old woman near the same intersection and demanded to know if she had any money, police said. He then slugged the victim on the side of the head and took a swing at her with the blade, cops said. The woman blocked the blow with her hand, sustaining a minor slash wound. The suspect, described as 5-foot-6 and 170 pounds, fled empty-handed.
A braces-wearing gang-banger robbed a young boy of his Jordan sneakers in Williamsburg, police sources said. The 13-year-old victim agreed to meet the red-headed, pimply-faced suspect at Lorimer Street and Broadway at about 7 p.m. Tuesday to sell the kicks, sources said. When the victim pulled out the special Valentine’s Day-edition Jordans, the bully, 16, demanded that the victim turn them over without payment. The boy refused and the goon allegedly barked, “You making me tight! You know I’m a Crip, right?” Sources said the teenage tough then sprayed the victim in the face with an unknown chemical as an accomplice punched the kid, and the pair fled with the $180 shoes. One of the suspects, whose name is known but was withheld because of his age, was described as about 5-foot-4 and 130 pounds.
A suspect knocked over a Cypress Hills bank Monday morning, according to cops. Police said the crook approached a teller at the Chase branch on Fulton Street near Hemlock Street at about 10:30 a.m. and passed a demand note. The staffer forked over $780 and the robber fled, authorities said. The bespectacled suspect is believed to be in his 30s and stands about 5-foot-7.
A couple used a credit card that had been reported missing by its owner in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The 29-year-old victim reported to cops that he noticed his wallet missing after exiting the G-train station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues at about 9 a.m. on March 25. By that point, however, it was too late. The suspects were seen on surveillance video using the man’s credit card the day before at a Western Beef grocery store on Staten Island, and at the California Wine Merchant stored in Manhattan, authorities said.
The Bronx
A man broke into a Morris Heights deli and made off with $48,000 in cash and $1,276 worth of cigarettes, according to police. Via the owner’s remote surveillance video, the suspect was spotted inside OJ Deli Grocery at about 3 a.m. on April 6, cops said. The suspect entered the East 174th Street shop near Weeks Avenue through a side ally and cut a hole in a metal gate to gain entry, police sources said. He then busted open two safes and grabbed the cash and smokes, said law-enforcment authorities.
Manhattan
A quick-thinking groping victim snapped a cellphone photo of the suspect aboard a subway train in Midtown, said law-enforcement authorities. The suspect allegedly grabbed the 31-year-old woman’s rear with both hands aboard a Brooklyn-bound 4 train near Grand Central Station at 5:50 p.m. on April 21. They alleged assailant and the victim exited the train at the same stop. The grabby straphanger is believed to be in his 40s, 5-foot-9 and 185 pounds, with salt and pepper hair.