The Bronx
A woman stole a small scale from a Super 99 Cent Plus store in Fordham North, then beat up an employee who confronted her, police said. The thief left the 22-year-old female employee with multiple bruises on the face and also ripped a chain from the victim’s neck before fleeing. The suspect in the June 21 incident was caught on video. The heavyset, pony-tailed woman is described as a Hispanic in her 20s or 30s and about 5-foot-5.
Brooklyn
A son stabbed his father during a fight Monday at a Sheepshead Bay housing project, authorities said. Police arrived at the building on Nostrand Avenue near Avenue V after the boy’s mother placed a frantic call to 911 stating that her son had stabbed his father several times with a large kitchen knife around 12:40 a.m. The dad, 47, suffered stab wounds to the back and arm and was rushed to Lutheran Hospital in stable condition. Lamar Green, 19, was arrested at the scene and charged with assault and possession of a weapon, cops said.
A thief went on a $2,000 shopping spree with a woman’s stolen credit card, cops said. The victim, 40, lost her wallet on June 27 at a Fort Greene cafe and discovered that evening that the thief had used her card to buy clothing, accessories and beauty products at six high-end boutiques in Manhattan, police said. The suspect, captured on security cameras, was wearing thick-rimmed eyeglasses.
A 76-year-old man was pinned to a chair and robbed in his Borough Park home, cops said. After leaving a 49th Street synagogue Friday, the victim was followed home by two men who forced their way into his apartment on 50th Street and 15th Avenue around 9:30 p.m., police said. The suspects took a fax machine and $3, cops said. The victim did not suffer any injuries. One robber was wearing a white shirt, a black baseball cap and dark pants. The other was wearing a black T-shirt, a dark colored bucket hat and dark shorts.
A 60-year-old man nicked his girlfriend’s neck with a knife while fighting with the woman’s son, police said. The girlfriend was trying to break up the tussle between Raymond Soto and her 33-year-old son at Soto’s 7th Street home in Gravesend Sunday afternoon, police said. As she tried to get in between the two men, Soto, who was wielding a knife, accidentally cut her neck, causing a minor wound, according to police. Soto was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, menacing and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
Manhattan
A man was arrested near the Holland Tunnel for using a remote control device that shields his motorcycle’s license plate from the E-ZPass tolls, police said. Henry Pogue, 51, used a toggle that would retract his plate and then return it to its normal position, Port Authority Police said. The Roselle, NJ, man admitted to cops he had not paid the toll and cops found suspected marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia, according to the Port Authority.
Queens
Police are looking for a driver who struck a woman after she plunged from an elevated subway platform in Astoria, authorities said. The unidentified woman jumped from the Astoria Boulevard station and landed on the Grand Central Parkway service road on Sunday at about 11 p.m., police said. She was then run over by a vehicle that fled the scene, leaving her dead in the roadway. The woman’s purse was found lying next to the third rail. It’s believed she may have fallen through the station’s slotted roadbed when she jumped onto the tracks. Her identity was not released. Police could not immediately provide a description of the vehicle that struck her.
A 69-year-old man was pushed down the stairs at a Long Island City subway station, cops said. The victim was at the 36th Street station along the M and R lines when the thug came up behind him and shoved him last Wednesday at about 1:30 p.m., cops said. The victim tumbled down the steps and suffered a fractured knee but is in stable condition. The suspect is described as a 6-foot tall heavy-set bald black male in his late 20s.