MANHATTAN
*** Two cops investigating a car accident in lower Manhattan helped deliver a baby yesterday, police said.
Officers Kendra Herrera and Pedro Rivera, assigned to the 5th Precinct in Chinatown, were dispatched to White Street and Broadway at noon to handle an auto smash.
Suddenly, a man approached the cops and told them his wife, in a nearby car, was going into labor. The officers leaped into action.
At 12:06 p.m., Herrera and Rivera helped deliver a healthy baby girl.
*** A city correction officer was arrested in Harlem on weapons and menacing charges, police said yesterday.
Cecil Rivers, whose age was not available, was charged late Friday in connection with a domestic incident.
*** Detectives are hunting a gun-toting mugger who robbed two men in the East Village, police sources said yesterday.
The suspect – about 35 years old, wearing blue jeans and a waist-length blue jacket – approached two men, ages 21 and 24, at 2:12 a.m. Friday as the pair walked east on 13th Street toward First Avenue, the sources said.
After pulling a gun, he demanded cash from the men. They complied, and the suspect fled.
STATEN ISLAND
*** An unemployed teen was arrested on charges of grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property after a motorist twice spotted the suspect driving his car, sources said yesterday.
Andrew Wiggins, 18, was seen behind the wheel of a 1993 Honda Civic that he did not own on two different occasions last week, according to a criminal complaint.
The car’s owner, Isidro Trinidad-Romero, told cops he had not given Wiggins, a stranger, permission to drive the vehicle. Wiggins was arrested Wednesday, sources said.
Wiggins, of Simonson Avenue, was also charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, the complaint notes.
*** A man who tried to pass a bad check in a relative’s name has been busted on forgery charges, sources said.
Jonathan Argenziano, 32, is accused of writing a check for $980 on a closed checking account that belonged to a relative, sources said.
Argenziano admitted that on Oct. 6 he wrote the bad check, drawn on a Northfield Savings Bank account that had been closed for more than a year, court records show.
He then attempted to cash the check at Luke’s Copy Shop, on Hylan Boulevard, in payment for a purchase, the complaint notes.
Argenziano was also charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, petit larceny and issuing a bad check, according to the complaint.
BROOKLYN
*** Two men were being sought for a robbery yesterday morning in a Greenpoint commercial building, police sources said.
The duo entered Vendervort Trading International, at 96 Lombardi St., at 11:45 a.m. and sauntered into an office, where they drew guns on an employee before fleeing with $3,000 in cash.
QUEENS
*** An 81-year-old woman was critically injured by a truck in Cambria Heights, police said yesterday.
The victim, whose identity was not released, crossed in front of a parked bus at Linden and Springfield boulevards shortly after 7 p.m. Friday when the truck, heading south on Springfield in the center lane, hit her.
The woman was taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital. The driver of the truck was not charged with any infraction.
THE BRONX
*** A burglar is being sought for breaking into a Pelham Bay deli, police said yesterday.
The owner of Jason’s Deli, at 3211 Westchester Ave., arrived at his store at 7 a.m. Friday and saw his front gate open.
A further check revealed that the ATM and a cash register inside the premises had been broken into.