MANHATTAN
Police are asking for the public’s assistance in finding the elderly Queens man who vanished in Chinatown.
Yuet-tam Chung, 74, was last seen on Lafayette Street near Canal Street at 2:45 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
Yuet-tam, a Woodside, Queens, resident, was wearing a gray jacket, blue jeans, white sneakers and a black cap.
Police are looking for help in collaring a callous criminal who pushed a pregnant woman down a flight of stairs and stole her bag at Grand Central terminal.
The thug, described to be between 35 and 40 years old, approached the 41-year-old woman from behind while she was walking up steps to leave the station shortly before 4 a.m. Friday, cops said.
He then grabbed her purse from her shoulder, which caused her to fall down the stairwell, police said.
Cops say the thug wore a black hat, blue jeans, and a waist-length jacket.
QUEENS
A Bayside woman bought $1,800 worth of food from a fast-food chicken joint using bad checks, authorities said yesterday.
On nine occasions between Dec. 24 and Feb. 1, Alicia Bunkem, 47, allegedly forged checks to have Boston Market feasts delivered to her 217th Street home.
A manager for the chain discovered the checks were bad and authorities soon discovered the account holder had closed that account four years ago, the sources said.
Bunkem was charged with nine counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument and grand larceny, a Brown spokesman said.
STATEN ISLAND
Detectives were investigating the stabbing death of a man in Tompkinsville early yesterday.
Kenneth Lewis, 36, was discovered with knife wounds on Pine Street near Stanley Avenue at 7:15 a.m., police said.
Lewis was rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
A man was collared for pot possession after cops spotted him talking to a man carrying a gun in Port Ivory, authorities said yesterday.
Michael Bailey, 24, was arrested at Richmond Terrace and Holland Avenue at 8:32 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
Cops saw Bailey chatting with a man packing heat, and when they approached the armed man ran off, the sources said.
Bailey, who had a marijuana cigarette in his possession, gave police a fake name and birth date and struggled when they tried to arrest him.
He was charged with resisting arrest, marijuana possession and false personation, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
A Great Kills man was arrested during a traffic stop when cops discovered the car he was driving was one he had rented two years ago and never returned, authorities said yesterday.
Police pulled over Patrick Ladley, 38, on Arthur Kill Road near Muldoon Avenue in Fresh Kills at 2 a.m. Friday.
A check of the 2006 white Lincoln Town Car’s license plate revealed that Ladley allegedly rented it from Avis for three days in May 2006 and then reported it stolen.
Officers also found a bag of crack in his shoe.
Ladley was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, drug possession and unauthorized use of a vehicle, a Donovan spokesman said.