THE BRONX
* Cops said yesterday they were hunting for the killer of a 22-year-old man who was found dead by his girlfriend inside his Morrisania apartment. On Monday, Chauncey Warren was discovered with multiple stab wounds and lacerations to his neck on East 165th Street near College Avenue, police said. No weapons were recovered.
* Cops swooped down on a Kingsbridge Heights home yesterday and busted a Massachusetts man wanted for murder. At around midnight, Massachusetts State Police notified 50th Precinct detectives that alleged killer Daniel Santos, 19, of Lowell, Mass., was staying with relatives on Kingsbridge Terrace near West Kingsbridge Road. Detectives executed an arrest warrant and took Santos into custody without incident.
* A woman was critically injured yesterday after a dispute turned violent in Morris Heights, police said. A man in his 30s allegedly struck the 38-year-old victim in the head with a hammer at around 1:30 p.m. inside an apartment building on East 177 Street near East Tremont Avenue. The attacker fled. The victim, whose name was not released, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical but stable condition.
QUEENS
* An off-duty NYPD captain was charged with driving while intoxicated yesterday after his car collided with another vehicle in Flushing, police said. Gerard Mines, who is assigned to the Queens Transit Bureau, was busted at around midnight at the intersection of 35th Avenue and Parsons Boulevard, cops said. Nobody was injured in the accident. Mines, a 29-year veteran, was suspended from the department.
* A gang of teenage thugs robbed and stabbed two young men in Long Island City, police said yesterday. The incident occurred Monday at around 7 p.m. at 14th Street and 31st Road, where five to eight assailants – one wielding a knife – approached an 18-year-old man and a 23-year-old man and demanded money, police said. One victim gave the suspects $150, but the other refused to hand over cash and was stabbed several times in the torso, cops said. The attackers fled. The wounded man was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in serious but stable condition.
* Two young men have been arrested for abducting a man in Flushing, police said yesterday. The incident began Sunday at around 7 p.m. on Union Turnpike and Main Street, where Jason Berrios, 28, and Arka Stanek, 26, forced the 34-year-old victim into their car and demanded money he owed them, cops said.
The suspects then drove the unidentified victim to Bergen County, where New Jersey authorities pulled them over for a traffic infraction on Monday, police said. Investigators observed the victim in the car and placed the suspects under arrest. Nobody was injured. Charges are pending.
* Three students at Bryant HS in Astoria – Chancellor Joel Klein’s alma mater – were slashed just around the corner from their school yesterday.
They were taken to Elmhurst General Hospital with superficial wounds.
Police arrested four men in the attack. It was not immediately clear if they, too, are Bryant students. (s, lcf)
* A drunken driver crashed into a man reading a newspaper in front of a store yesterday, then plowed into the storefront, police said.
The car jumped the curb and slammed into the front of the U.S. Deli on Woodhaven Boulevard near Myrtle Avenue, hitting José Lopez as he stood outside.
Lopez was in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital.
The driver, Robert Hiris, 40, was also taken to the hospital after hitting his head on the car’s windshield. He was charged with DWI, possession of marijuana and vehicular assault. (s, lcf)
STATEN ISLAND
* Two teenagers have been arrested for mugging a 14-year-old boy at the Prince’s Bay train station off Seguine Avenue, police said yesterday. Sgt. Mario Perez said Steven Glock, 17, and Thomas Rizzo, 18, swiped the boy’s gold chain and religious pendant on a platform around 7 p.m. Monday. As the muggers ran away, the victim boarded a train and reported the incident to the train’s operator, who radioed police, Perez said. The suspects were nabbed about a half-hour later.
MANHATTAN
Four robbers were arrested yesterday after snatching cash and jewelry from a man in the Flatiron neighborhood, police said.
The incident unfolded at around 1:30 a.m. on West 21st Street near Broadway, where the four assailants allegedly accosted a 34-year-old man in a parking lot after his friends drove off. One robber pulled a loaded 9mm handgun, and another acted as a lookout while the victim handed over $800 from his wallet, a watch, ring and diamond chain, police said.
The suspects fled into a subway station at West 23rd Street. Cops were called to the scene and nabbed two suspects inside the station. The other suspects jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into a tunnel. Police briefly shut down service and collared the third suspect at 14th Street Station; the fourth was arrested at the West Fourth Street Station.
Schamar Leggette, 20, Ian Emmanuel, 26, Emanuel Avent, 28, and Bernard Owens, 29, were all charged with robbery. (m)