Brooklyn
A 3-month-old Crown Heights infant was kidnapped from her home at gunpoint by her father yesterday, cops said.
An Amber alert was issued after Shamiece Fariera was snatched from the apartment she shares with her mother at 5:40 p.m.
The girl’s father, Shawn Fariera, 20, had gone there to fight over visitation rights, sources said.
They were found about six hours later in an East New York building, where the father was arrested.
Shamiece appeared OK but was taken to a local hospital for examination.
A woman was arrested for assaulting two Midwood supermarket employees during a robbery, authorities said yesterday.
Lori Haddad, 48, allegedly swiped bills from an open register while a cashier was assisting a customer in the market at Avenue J and East Third Street at 11:55 a.m. Monday.
The female cashier tried to stop Haddad, who knocked her to the ground, cops said.
Haddad ran, but was pursued out to the street by another employee, cops said. Haddad allegedly bit the employee on the arm but was captured.
Manhattan
Two brothers gave a petty thief a dose of his own medicine when they used the same ruse he pulled on them to get back their cellphone, authorities said yesterday.
Aaron and Andrew Fisher were partying in a Madison Avenue apartment at East 28th Street at 3 a.m. on March 6.
At one point, Aaron placed Andrew’s cellphone on a counter and plugged it into a charger, cops said.
Michael Findley, 28, asked if he could use the phone to make a call and Aaron gave him permission. But Findley allegedly took off with it.
On April 11, the two brothers spotted Findley in Club Bungalow 8 on West 27th Street, cops said.
They asked Findley if they could borrow his phone, authorities said.
Findley handed a cellphone to Andrew, who realized it was the one stolen from him.
Findley was arrested on petit-larceny charges.
A cellphone thief was captured after he tried to extort $50 from his victim in the West Village, authorities said yesterday.
Joseph Hernandez, 28, allegedly swiped a woman’s phone in a Second Avenue nightclub on Sunday.
Later, the woman called the phone and Hernandez answered it, telling her he would return it in exchange for $50, according to a court complaint.
She and a friend allegedly met Henderson at Christopher and Hudson streets.
Perhaps sensing a police set-up, Henderson handed the phone to a friend, bolted to a nearby subway station and tried to hide under a platform, authorities said.
But cops found him, and he was charged with grand larceny, a DA’s spokeswoman said.
A gun-toting thug assaulted a Washington Heights woman caring for her grandkids during a push-in burglary, authorities said yesterday.
On April 9, Juan Herrera, 27, and a cohort allegedly confronted the 60-year-old woman as she was entering her West 184th Street apartment with her grandkids, ages 1 and 3.
Herrera allegedly pushed his way inside, threatened to kill the grandmother and struck her on the head with the gun.
The woman suffered two broken fingers as she raised her hand to deflect the blows.
As she screamed, Herrera and his cohort allegedly fled empty-handed.
Two days later, the grandmother spotted Herrera at a bodega and called cops.
Herrera was arrested and charged with assault and burglary.
Queens
Police yesterday were searching for the gun-toting thief pictured above who has robbed four Queens banks.
Between Feb. 11 and April 4, the suspect targeted the Apple Bank at 43-73 Kissena Blvd,, Flushing Bank at 44-43 Kissena Blvd., Queens County Savings Bank at 254-09 Horace Harding Expressway and HSBC Bank at 44-04 Kissena Blvd.
In each case, the robber confronted a teller, pulled a silver pistol and got away with cash.
The Bronx
Cops are asking the public for help to find the 14-year-old girl pictured above who disappeared in Mount Hope.
Ruth Flores, 4-foot-9 and 120 pounds, was last seen leaving her Marcy Place apartment at Jerome Avenue at 4 p.m. last Thursday, police said.
She was dressed in a red hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and a black leather jacket.
Staten Island
Police arrested a vandal who slashed tires on five cars in West Brighton, authorities said yesterday.
Cops received a call of a man puncturing tires near the West Brighton Houses on Castleton Avenue at 12:45 p.m. Monday.
Armed with a description from the tipster, police found Jeffrey Bevel, 27, hiding under the staircase in a nearby building.