By JAMIE SCHRAM and PHILIP MESSING
Posted: 4:53 am
November 12, 2008
Brooklyn
Police are searching for the Flatbush bank robber pictured above.
The suspect, who was wearing a bright yellow rain jacket, entered the WaMu branch on Nostrand Avenue near Church Avenue at 2:45 p.m. on Oct. 29 and passed a demand note to a teller.
The teller handed over an unspecified sum of cash and the crook fled.
Two men were shot, one fatally, in an apartment building near Prospect Park, last night.
An unidentified man, who was shot in the head at the Woodruff Street building, was pronounced dead at the scene just before 10 p.m. The other victim, a 20-year-old man who was shot in the torso, was in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
A man was arrested for slashing a teen in Brownsville as they argued, authorities said yesterday.
Leal Mathias, 25, clashed with the 18-year-old victim over how the teen was treating Mathias' sister, sources said.
The dispute escalated into bloodshed at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 6 at Newport and Hinsdale streets, where Mathias allegedly pulled a knife, slashed the victim's left forearm and ran off.
Police arrested Mathias Sunday.
Manhattan
An armed robber was nabbed just moments after a stick-up at a Midtown jewelry store yesterday, police said.
The gun-brandishing bandit walked into the Plaza Watch and Jewelry Exchange on West 57th Street near Seventh Avenue shortly before 4 p.m., robbed the place and then escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash and jewels, cops said.
Witnesses were able to give cops a description of the getaway vehicle - a Honda with Pennsylvania plates - and officers stopped the car on West 54th Street at 12th Avenue, where they arrested the robbery suspect. He was not immediately identified.
Two thugs attacked a man in lower Manhattan, police sources said yesterday.
At 2:20 a.m. on Saturday, Wilsor Emmanuel, 22, and Jerome Edwards, 20, allegedly punched and kicked the man in front of 359 Broadway.
Police nabbed the suspects at the scene. The victim suffered minor injuries.
A pervert was busted for groping a woman outside a Midtown nightclub, police sources said yesterday.
Jamel Davis, 26, squeezed the buttocks of a 20-year-old woman outside BB King's on West 42nd Street near Eighth Avenue at 1:20 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
The victim called police, who busted Davis.
A deliveryman swiped two laptop computers from a Gramercy Park apartment, police said yesterday.
Omar Peralta, 17, was making a delivery at a 12th-floor apartment on East 21st Street near Third Avenue at about 1:40 p.m. on Sept. 27 when he noticed that someone had left their keys in the door of another apartment, authorities said.
He allegedly went inside, swiped the computers and fled. The resident, a 22-year-old woman, reported the theft to police, who, after reviewing building video surveillance tapes, arrested Peralta last Thursday.
Two additional suspects have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Pennsylvania man in his car on the Upper West Side, police sources said yesterday.
Anthony Ramos, 30, and Elvin Muņoz, 20, were captured last Thursday, according to court records.
The pair, along with Wilfredo Rivera, 44, and Luis Galeano, 46, fatally shot Marvin Stevens, 28, in the head while robbing him on West 91st Street near Columbus Avenue on Sept. 21, sources said.
Stevens, of Williamsport, Pa., died at St. Luke's Hospital. Rivera and Galeano were arrested three days later.
Staten Island
Two men were shot in the parking lot of a restaurant near the Staten Island Mall last night, police said. The shootings took place on Richmond Avenue at 10:30 p.m. The conditions of the victims weren't immediately known.
A couple was arrested on drug charges after cops found a large quantity of PCP within arm's reach of a 5-year-old in an apartment in St. George, authorities said yesterday.
Tamieka McCombs, 27, her boyfriend, Alafia Rodriguez, 34, and his young son were in their apartment on St. Marks Place near Hamilton Avenue at 5 a.m. Friday when cops executed a search warrant.
The officers found PCP, drug paraphernalia and approximately 500 .22-caliber bullets, sources said.
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