The Bronx
Two suspects mugged a man in the lobby of his Mount Hope apartment building, authorities said. The men approached the 56-year-old victim at about 8:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day. One pulled a gun and demanded cash, and the duo got $55 and fled in a white Mercedes. They were described as 20 to 30 years old. One stands around 5-foot-5 and was last seen wearing a beige, hooded snorkel jacket and a baseball cap. His partner is about 6 feet tall and was last seen wearing a black baseball cap, black pants, black jacket and sneakers.
Police are searching for a man who robbed a cabby at gunpoint in Mott Haven. The 57-year-old driver was in Yonkers at about 11:10 p.m. on Jan. 28 when he picked up the suspect (above), who asked to be taken to 141st Street and Willis Avenue. When the cab arrived at the destination, the passenger pulled a gun, took $100 and the hack’s cellphone and ran into a building, according to police. The suspect was described as about 5-foot-5 and 150 pounds and between 20 and 30 years old. He was wearing a dark bucket hat, law-enforcement officials said.
A correction officer was busted trying to sneak more that 60 grams of synthetic marijuana into the Rikers Island jail complex, officials said. Mohammed Suffian, 25, was about to begin his shift at the Anna M. Kross facility Wednesday when a drug-sniffing K9 cop near one of the jail’s screening areas smelled the fake weed, authorities said. Suffian was then searched, and officers allegedly found stuffed in his socks the fake weed wrapped in black electrical tape. Then a search of his home yielded several more packages of synthetic marijuana, law-enforcement officials said. Suffian had allegedly been paid $500 the night before to smuggle the contraband into the prison and was scheduled to collect more after making the delivery, investigators said. He was charged with bribe-receiving and promoting dangerous prison contraband, according to officials.
Four suspects assaulted a 50-year-old man at a Fort Greene bodega, police said. The victim confronted the suspects after they walked into Genuine Deli at Fulton Street and Grand Avenue and started acting unruly at about 3:35 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. The punks punched the man repeatedly, leaving him with facial cuts and bruises as well as an eye injury, cops said. The suspects fled on foot, and the victim was treated at Brooklyn Hospital.
Also in Fort Greene Wednesday afternoon, a letter carrier making his rounds was assaulted by a group of young thugs, authorities said. The victim was on Fulton Street near South Portland Avenue when the punks approached and beat him up, cops said. The victim suffered deep cuts and bruises. Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from that scene.
Manhattan
Police have arrested the hoodie-wearing suspect who exposed himself to two women on a subway train nearing Grand Central Station. Disean Tulloch, 25, was arrested for exposing himself on a 4 train at about 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 28. When the woman told him to get lost, the pervert walked to another car and dropped his trousers in front of another female commuter, cops said. Tulloch was charged with public lewdness.
Queens
Three suspects obtained bank-account information using skimmer card readers on ATM machines around the borough and ending up stealing more than $7,200 using cloned cards, authorities said. The illicit info was acquired between last Sept. 3 and Oct. 2, when the suspects used the skimming devices on ATM machines in Jackson Heights, Forest Hills and Corona. The victims’ bank information was then transferred to phony debit cards that were used to withdraw cash from their accounts and make unauthorized transfers, cops said.