Brooklyn
Police are asking for the public’s help finding three robbers who pistol-whipped a 52-year-old man during a vicious attack and assault.
The suspects jumped the victim on Roebling Street at around 3:20 a.m. on Oct. 1, pummeled him and pistol-whipped him before taking his Verizon cellphone and $ 1,100 in cash, cops said.
The attackers fled, and the victim was not seriously injured, despite the beating, officials added.
All three suspects are believed to be in their 20s, police said.
One is about 5-foot-8 and 170 pounds and was last seen wearing a dark jacket with striped sleeves and dark jeans.
The second suspect is also 5-foot-8 but stockier, weighing about 200 pounds, and was last seen wearing a red jacket with dark jeans.
The third suspect is 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds and wore a dark jacket with leather sleeves, dark jeans and a black baseball cap.
Police have a arrested a man in the fatal stabbing of his gay lover during an argument in their Canarsie apartment, authorities said.
Samuel Joseph, 27, allegedly plunged a steak knife into Ledaryl Burns’ neck, leaving the 31-year-old victim in a pool of blood on the living-room floor of their East 96th Street apartment just before 10 p.m. Friday, police said.
Burns was pronounced dead and Joseph was taken into custody immediately, according to police.
But he wasn’t formally arrested until late Saturday, after he had been charged with second-degree murder and weapon possession.
The couple had lived together for about three years, cops said.
Manhattan
A 24-year-old woman was punched in the face just a block from her Midtown West apartment by thieves who snatched her sunglasses, sources said.
The victim was on the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 33rd Street at around 2 p.m. Oct. 14 when a woman sucker-punched her and snatched her $ 500 Thierry Lasry shades, sources said.
The victim was not seriously injured.
The suspect has brown hair, freckles — and a very expensive pair of shades.
A couple of heartless thieves stole a pizza delivery guy’s bike while he was dropping off a pie on the Far West Side, sources said.
The 24-year-old Bronx man parked the $ 300 Fuji on West 26th Street near 12th Avenue at around noon on Oct. 17, brought the food order into the Starrett-Lehigh commercial building, and returned to find that his bike was gone.
This is guy’s a real meathead.
A 51-year-old man was caught shoving 12 packs of bacon and 10 packages of skirt and shell steaks into his shoulder bag at a Gristedes in Chelsea, police sources said.
Cornell Brown, of Harlem, also allegedly added one Goya spice jar to the mix before security inside the Eighth Avenue store nabbed him at 5 p.m., Oct. 17, cops said. He was charged with petit larceny.
The Bronx
Cops have made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of a 50-year-old man in the South Bronx.
Jorge Garcia, 33, was charged with murder, manslaughter and weapon possession in the death of Alfedo Caracena-Cambero, 50, whose body was found with several stab wounds in the Lozada Playground on East 135th Street between Alexander and Willis avenues at around 9 a.m. Oct. 16.
He was taken to Lincoln Hospital, but died on the way from wounds to his chest and the back his head, authorities said.
Neither of the two men had any prior arrests and it was not clear what led to the deadly attack.
Garcia was arrested early Sunday.
A 28-year-old man was shot to death in Belmont early Sunday, police said.
Jorge Reyes-Romero was struck in the torso after an unknown gunman opened fire on Crotona Avenue just before 1 a.m. Sunday, police said.
He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No suspect description is available and a motive wasn’t immediately clear, but the victim had been arrested 23 times for crimes that included pot possession and sale, burglary, robbery, assault and attempted murder, law-enforcement sources said.
Police released a photo of a third suspect in a robbery by a hammer-wielding trio who barged into a spa in Dongan Hills over the summer.
Marc Confessore and Tayeh Hashem were charged in September with robbery after allegedly entering the New Royal Spa on North Railroad Avenue at around 6:20 p.m. Aug. 20, and threatening an employee with a hammer before snatching $ 600.
The third man still has not been caught.
