The Bronx
A mugger stole more than $2,300 from a man in Melrose, cops said. The robber followed the 25-year-old victim out of a grocery store on 158th Street and Park Avenue around 9 p.m. on Feb. 11, cops said. He then pulled out a gun and demanded cash. The suspect was caught on surveillance footage wearing a blue hooded coat, a blue knit cap and jeans.
A mob of young thugs set upon a teen and stabbed him multiple times in Soundview, police said. The 17-year-old boy was accosted Wednesday on Ward Avenue near Westchester Avenue at about 4 p.m. as he was walking home from school. The group of thugs yelled “Where you from?” before throwing him to the ground and stabbing him repeatedly in the left side, according to police. The teen was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in serious but stable condition, and is expected to survive.
A masked pervert exposed himself to a group of children at a Hunts Point school, police said. Kids at the Hyde Leadership Charter School on Bryant Avenue were enjoying recess Monday when the fiend called four of them over to the edge of their fenced-in playground at about 12:50 p.m., cops said. He then dropped his trousers and flashed the 8- and 9-year-olds before fleeing south on Longfellow Avenue when the kids shouted for help, according to officials. The suspect was captured on surveillance footage wearing a face mask and a black hooded jacket.
Cops are trying to identify two men who robbed a Norwood drug store. The suspects barged into a Rite Aid near the southeast corner of Van Cortland Park around 3:40 a.m. on Feb. 20 and began shoving razors into their pants and backpacks, cops said. When a 26-year-old employee confronted them, one of the robbers asked him, “Do you want to get shot?” according to the police, who noted that no weapon was actually displayed. The employee backed away and the pair ran off with the razors. Cops described both suspects as about 5-foot-9, and 170 pounds. Surveillance photos show one clean-shaven man wearing a purple bubble jacket, light pants, and a red knapsack, and one bearded man in a blue hooded sweater.
Manhattan
Investigators who responded to a call about an an assault on the Lower East Side later learned that the victim and his pals had burglarized a nearby restaurant earlier in the evening, authorities said. The cops were called to help Kenneth Johnson, 23, after he was knocked out by someone who punched him in the head on Delancey Street at about 2 a.m. Wednesday. After the man was taken to the hospital, the same cops were called to investigate a burglary at nearby eatery Patacon Pisao on Essex Street, police said. When they reviewed the restaurant’s surveillance cameras, the cops saw Johnson and two pals enter through an unlocked door before stealing a couple of tablet computers and leaving around 1 a.m., cops said. Johnson was arrested, along with alleged accomplices Joallan Garcia, 25 and Christopher Durjan, 20. All three were charged with burglary and possession of stolen property.
Cops are looking for this suspect wanted for breaking into an Upper East Side restaurant. The burglar entered Hummus Kitchen on Second Avenue near East 84th Street through an unlocked front cellar door on Feb. 2 at about 3:40 a.m., cops said. While inside, the thief swiped $25 in cash and a bike worth $800. He is described as being around 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a multicolored jacket and a hooded sweatshirt with a baseball cap underneath, cops said.
Queens
A sex fiend struck a little girl’s buttocks and attempted to grab a teenager during separate incidents in Jackson Heights, authorities said. He approached a 17-year-old girl walking near the corner of 35th Avenue and 92nd Street and tried to grab her rear end on Feb. 17 at about 8 p.m., police said. The teen dodged the creep and called police, but the perv had already fled by the time cops arrived. He struck again days later when he smacked a 10-year-old girl’s butt near the corner of 37th Avenue and 99th Street on Feb. 23 at about 3 p.m., cops said. The suspect is described as being approximately 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket with fur trim and blue jeans.