The Bronx
Police are hunting for two crooks who allegedly robbed a 63-year-old taxi driver in Castle Hill. The cabby picked up the men at around 6 a.m. Feb. 13 at the Parkside projects at White Plains Road and Adee Avenue in Allerton, police said. He drove them to Castle and Randall avenues, cops said. Before getting out, one of the crooks pulled out a metal object and demanded money from the victim, police said. They snatched some cash and fled into the nearby Castle Hill Houses, cops said. Two suspects are 30 to 35 years old and about 5-feet-11. One wore a dark blue bomber jacket.
Brooklyn
A woman was shot and a man was stabbed in a brawl at a Bushwick nightclub, authorities said Saturday. The melee started when a 32-year-old man was stabbed in the stomach during an argument at around 1:30 a.m. Friday at Club Republic at Broadway and Vernon avenues, police said. Several more people jumped in and started swinging at each other when the fight spilled outside. Amid the chaos, someone fired a gun wildly into the crowd. A 20-year-old woman was hit in the leg. Both of the wounded are in stable condition at Kings County Hospital, cops said. Police are still investigating.
Police are searching for a creep who exposed himself on the subway. The pervert was spotted at about 7:35 a.m. Friday by a passenger aboard a Manhattan-bound 3 train at Henry and Clark streets in Brooklyn Heights. Upon seeing the man inappropriately touching himself, the straphanger snapped a photo, police said. The subway deviant sat with a duffel bag on his lap, they said. A suspect wore a gray parka and a black beanie.
An 18-year-old man was shot in the leg and torso in a Canarsie housing project Saturday, police said. A gunman opened fire on the man at around 3:10 a.m. as he walked down a flight of stairs at a building at the Bay View Houses at Shore and Rockaway parkways. The victim was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, according to police. No arrests have been made.
A man wanted for shooting dead a 45-year old man outside his home in Bedford-Stuyvesant in January was charged on Friday, police said. Harry Steadman on Jan. 11 squeezed off three bullets into the back, neck and left shoulder of Maurice Jones, 45. Police traced Steadman to Dayton, OH, where he was apprehended on Jan. 15 for a parole warrant on a January 1986 murder, also in Brooklyn. The next day, Steadman was transferred back to New York, where he was held on his parole warrant. He was ultimately charged with the more recent homicide on Feb. 26. Steadman, 48, was charged with second degree murder.
Queens
A Jackson Heights man has been charged with brutally beating his girlfriend, police said Saturday. Tomas Rivera, 30, pummeled his 35-year-old girlfriend in a home on 93rd Street near Roosevelt Avenue on Nov. 29, said cops. Investigators tracked Rivera to Knoxville, Tenn., and he was arrested Friday. He faces assault charges. The victim suffered severe head trauma in the attack but is now out of the hospital.
An enraged Rosedale man opened fire at a sports bar after he was barred from going inside, police said Saturday. The peeved patron wannabe was told at around 2:50 a.m. Feb. 15 that he couldn’t enter Sports Mania Bar at 144th Avenue and 243rd Street. Angry, the man fired several bullets into the front of the bar, cops said. Then he drove off in a white, four-door sedan. The shooter is 30 to 40 years old, weighs about 200 pounds and wore a dark-colored skull cap, police said.
Staten Island
A 250-pound woman used a fake ID to swipe a $2,800 designer dress from a UPS store in Travis-Chelsea, police said Saturday. The woman entered the business at Travis Avenue and Victory Boulevard at around 12:55 p.m. Dec. 30 and used the pilfered ID to take delivery of the dress, cops said. A clerk checked the ID, and handed over the goods. The woman is between 20 and 30 years old. She wore a black jacket and white T-shirt.