BROOKLYN
A cabby was arrested for pummeling a city bus driver in a road-rage attack in Sunset Park, authorities said yesterday.
Cabby Hamidullah Mucahit, 45, was allegedly driving erratically at 39th Street and 4th Avenue at 10:22 p.m. Tuesday when he cut off the bus driven by an unidentified 47-year-old person.
The suspect and the victim pulled over after the near-collision, cops said.
Mucahit started yelling at the victim and then punched him twice in the face, cops said.
Police arrested Mucahit, who was charged with assault and menacing.
A passenger choked a livery driver and attempted to rob him in Boerum Hill, authorities said yesterday.
Dwight Peters, 28, entered the livery car at an unspecified Brooklyn location at about 4:10 a.m. Tuesday and requested to be taken to Hoyt and Douglass streets, sources said.
En route, the driver asked for money up front. That sparked an argument which led to Peters allegedly reaching over, putting a chokehold on the driver and attempting to take money from his pocket.
The driver managed to pull over at Caton and Bedford avenues in Flatbush, where a passing cop intervened.
Peters was charged with attempted grand larceny and menacing.
MANHATTAN
An armed suspect, wanted in a string of store robberies, struck twice more in SoHo this week, bringing his spree to 16 heists in two months, police said yesterday.
The man tried to rob a jewelry store on Prince Street on Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. but fled empty-handed.
He had more success less than two hours later, when he stole cash from a clothing store on Mott Street.
The suspect, in his 30s, first struck Sept. 10, when he allegedly robbed an employee inside Yoyamart, a kids-clothing boutique on Gansevoort Street.
He’s also hit businesses in Greenwich Village, Chelsea and the Lower East Side, police said.
A parolee went to apply for a job at the Waldorf-Astoria but wound up swiping a woman’s wallet and roughing her up, putting him back behind bars, authorities said yesterday.
Jamel Dean, 31, who has served two stints in prison for attempted burglary, was indicted Tuesday on robbery and burglary charges in the bizarre theft at the posh Park Avenue hotel at around 11:25 a.m. on Nov. 7, sources said.
As Dean walked into the human-resources office to apply for work, he spotted a pocketbook belonging to a female employee, authorities said.
He allegedly removed a wallet containing $60 from the pocketbook.
The woman saw the theft and confronted Dean, who pushed her to the floor and ran, authorities said.
She chased Dean as hotel security joined in the pursuit. Dean tossed the wallet at the guards, who finally grabbed him, cops said.
A thief was arrested for swiping $400 from an acquaintance with whom he had made a deal to buy a cellphone, authorities said yesterday.
At 3:05 p.m. on Feb. 22, Charles Scriven, 24, brought the cellphone to a Dunkin’ Donuts at Lexington Avenue and 91st Street where the victim worked, sources said.
When the victim took out the cash, Scriven pulled a knife, grabbed the loot and fled, sources said.
The victim called police, and prosecutors added the theft bust when Scriven was nabbed Sunday on an unrelated drug rap in Brooklyn, sources said.
A spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s Office said Scriven was charged with robbery and weapon possession.
An East Harlem man sexually assaulted a woman as he threatened her with a boxcutter, authorities said yesterday.
Olukunce Awe, 49, allegedly threatened to slash the woman in his East 115th Street apartment at 4:30 a.m. Monday, then hit her in the head and forced her to perform oral sex, sources said.
The victim then escaped and alerted police.
Awe was arrested on charges of criminal sexual act and sexual abuse, the DA’s spokeswoman said.
STATEN ISLAND
Two thieves stole $20 from a fellow train passenger, but returned $8 when he passively submitted, authorities said yesterday.
Timothy Connelly, 17, and Danny Mayo, 18, confronted the 20-year-old victim aboard a southbound Staten Island Railway train between the Pleasant Plains and Princes Bay stations at 8:20 p.m. Saturday, sources said.
Connelly allegedly grabbed the victim’s wallet, removed the cash and gave it to Mayo, who returned $8 to the victim for not resisting, cops said.
The duo fled at Pleasant Plains, and the victim alerted a conductor. Police soon busted the teens, who were charged with robbery, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.