Manhattan Cops nabbed a burglar who stole jewelry and clothing from a woman’s Upper East Side apartment early yesterday, police sources said.
A witness spotted Juan Ramirez, 34, climbing through the window of the victim’s first-floor apartment on East 83rd Street near York Avenue at about 2:45 a.m. while she was out, the sources said.
He allegedly rifled through drawers and stole jewelry, clothing, an iPod and a camera. He stuffed the items into a bag and fled, the sources said.
The witness called cops and Ramirez was busted nearby on a burglary charge.
A thief was charged with snatching a young man’s wallet on the Upper East Side, police sources said yesterday.
Pedro Vega, 31, grabbed the wallet of his 19-year-old victim on East 93rd Street and First Avenue at about 1:54 a.m. on July 4, the sources said.
As police arrived, they saw the two struggling and busted Vega on a robbery charge.
Two men were arrested after attacking a third man on an Upper East Side street, police sources said yesterday. Levi Ross, 27, and Joseph Notik, 26, punched and kicked the 48-year-old victim on East 73rd Street at Second Avenue at about 2:25 a.m. Friday, the sources said.
It was unclear what sparked the violence, but cops found a bag of marijuana on Ross, authorities said. He was charged with assault and drug possession.
Notik was charged with assault.
A Virginia man was busted for drunken driving after he crashed into a patrol car stopped at a red light in Hell’s Kitchen early yesterday, authorities said.
Quenton Scullark, 32, was driving a 1999 Lincoln Navigator on West 51st Street when he hit the patrol car stopped on Eighth Avenue at 5 a.m., police said.
Scullark allegedly then tried to drive away, but cops quickly caught up with him.
Scullark was given a Breathalyzer test that showed he was slightly over the legal limit, authorities said.
He was charged with DWI and leaving the scene of an accident.
The man who fell to his death from the sixth floor of an Upper East Side building Saturday afternoon was identified yesterday as Justin Peterson, 27.
The fall, from 301 E. 85th St., was accidental, cops believe.
Brooklyn Police yesterday identified the man who was killed while crossing a Brighton Beach street as Jack Leshnow, 59, who was hit after two cars collided at Ocean Parkway and Neptune Avenue on Saturday.
The tragedy unfolded when a 62-year-old driver crashed his Chevy Blazer into a Pontiac. Daniel Molina, who cops said was driving the Pontiac, with a suspended license, then hit Leshnow, cops said
Leshnow’s sister Carol said she received the news when cops used his cellphone to contact her by dialing the last number he called. “I thought it was my brother calling because his number popped up,” she said.
Leshnow was a Vietnam veteran who leaves three sisters.
“We just think this whole thing is a bad dream that won’t go away,” Carol said.
A man was stabbed to death on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street yesterday morning, authorities said.
The victim, who had no identification on him when he was found, was involved in an argument with a group of men at Marcy Avenue and Park Avenue at about 10:30 a.m., cops said.
One of them stabbed the 41-year-old man three times in the chest and took off.
The man was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An off-duty firefighter was arrested after beating a man during an argument in Bay Ridge yesterday afternoon, police said.
Shamus Connoly, 33, pushed and punched the victim at Third and Ovington avenues shortly after 1 p.m., police said.
Connoly, who is assigned to Ladder 105 in Brooklyn, was charged with assault.
The unidentified victim refused medical attention.
Queens Two thugs stabbed a man in the hand yesterday on a South Jamaica street.
The assailants attacked the victim, who is in his 20s, at 101st Avenue and Remington Street at 11:40 a.m.
Police were unsure what sparked the violence, but said it may have been a road-rage incident.
The wounded man was rushed to Mary Immaculate Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.