Queens
This suspect groped two women and publicly pleasured himself in separate instances 10 minutes apart in Jackson Heights, police said Saturday. The man walked into a Laundromat on 108th Street at about 6:30 a.m. Friday and touched the buttocks of a 52-year-old woman, cops reported. Surveillance video shows him getting lewd and crude in the Laundromat. The victim moved away from him and the man ran out, police said. About 10 minutes later at 111th Street and 39th Avenue, the same man reached his arm under a woman’s skirt and touched her buttocks as he got lewd again, cops said. The man then ran off. He wore a short sleeved, buttoned shirt, blue jeans and black shoes.
Three gun-toting suspects pictured here mugged a man in a Ridgewood barbershop, police said Saturday. The suspects entered the shop on Seneca Avenue near Putnam Avenue at around 11:05 a.m. Friday and demanded property from the 40-year-old victim. They swiped his watch and jewelry and ran off, police said.
The Bronx
Cops have nabbed two brothers in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old man in Bedford Park last month, authorities said Saturday. Brandon Garcia, 21, and Gary Garcia, 19, who live together in Allerton, were arrested Friday in connection with the murder of Daniel Pena, police said. Pena, of Decatur Avenue, was knifed in the chest at least twice at around 7 p.m. on May 11 in the courtyard of a building on Decatur near Bedford Park Boulevard, cops said. Before Pena died, police tried to get him to identify his attackers, but sources said that as he gasped for breath, Pena told the cops: “F–k you.” Brandon has been charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. Gary was charged with murder.
A teenage boy was fatally shot and another man was critically wounded Saturday in Foxhurst, police said. Elwin Coste, 17, and a 21-year-old man were shot on Tiffany Street near East 165th Street at about 3:25 a.m. Coste suffered gunshot wounds to his stomach, arms and leg. He died at Lincoln Hospital. The other victim, who was shot in the torso and arms, remains in critical condition at Lincoln. Cops do not know what provoked the shooting and they have no suspects.
Police are on the hunt for two gun-wielding thugs who busted into a hair salon in Soundview and mugged an employee. The two suspects entered the Unisex Hair Salon on Bronx River Avenue near East 174th Street at around 4 p.m. Thursday and walked up to a 28-year-old man while brandishing silver-plated guns, according to police. The crooks snatched the victim’s iPhone and $300 and drove away in a gray BMW. One of the men was described as 5-foot-11 and sporting a ponytail. He wore a black baseball cap, black jogging jacket, black T-shirt, gray sweat pants and white sneakers, according to police. The other is 5-foot-8 with black hair, and wore a black hooded jacket, white T-shirt, black sneakers and black pants.
Brooklyn
A man grabbed a 13-year-old girl’s buttocks in Brighton Beach, police said Saturday. The girl was walking at Brightwater Court and Coney Island Avenue at around 7:40 p.m. Friday, when the suspect forcibly groped her, according to cops. He then ran off along Coney Island Avenue toward Brighton Beach Avenue. The suspect was described as about 50 years old, 5-foot-11 and 180 pounds, with straight, long, grayish hair. He wore brown work boots, blue jeans, a black T-shirt and a black coat, according to the victim and police investigators.