Queens
A woman was raped and robbed while on her way home from a Richmond Hill ATM machine early yesterday, cops said.
A man with a silver gun jumped the 18-year-old victim and forced her to the back of a building on 103rd Avenue at 1:45 a.m. She was taken to Queens General Hospital for observation. Police said they don’t believe the attack was related to a series of sex assaults that have taken place in southern Queens since November.
A motorcyclist was killed in a hit-and-run incident on a South Jamaica street, police said yesterday.
Intiaz Hussain, 29, was riding east on 116th Avenue near 141st Street just after 7 p.m. Sunday when a white sedan made a U-turn in front of him.
Manhattan
He crashed into the car and was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he died. The driver fled, police said.
A gun-toting thief has been busted in a string of street-vendor robberies on the Upper East Side, authorities said yesterday.
Gerald Hutchinson, 30, first struck at about 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 12 on Lexington Avenue at East 84th Street, cops said. He allegedly pulled a gun and demanded money from a fruit vendor, who turned over an unknown amount of cash. Three days later, the suspect allegedly confronted a vendor at East 89th Street and Lexington Avenue. Brandishing a gun, he removed cash from the vendor’s pants. Hutchinson next struck at East 60th Street and Second Avenue last Thursday, but did not get any money, authorities said.
Police saw the attempted cash grab and arrested Hutchinson, who was charged with robbery and attempted robbery, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s Office said.
A woman was arrested for stabbing a fellow straphanger with a pen aboard an East Side subway train, authorities said yesterday.
Angeline Hodge, 22, was sitting next to the female victim on a Brooklyn-bound No. 4 train heading toward Grand Central at around 1:40 p.m. last Wednesday, sources said. For no apparent reason, the suspect started cursing the woman and slashed her in the left arm and upper body, cops said.
When the train arrived at Grand Central, the victim alerted subway officials, who contacted cops.
Police said the suspect and the victim – who was not seriously hurt – had not known one another.
Hodge was charged with assault and weapon possession, the DA’s spokeswoman said.
Staten Island
A Queens man slashed his ex-girlfriend at her Eltingville apartment after he conned his way into her house, sources said.
Jason Corso, 25, showed up at the 26-year-old victim’s house on Richmond Avenue near Figurea Avenue early Friday. He knocked on the door and identified himself as a friend – and she let him in. As soon as he got through the door, Corso allegedly approached the room where her children were sleeping.
The worried victim picked up a knife and stepped in front of him, fearing for their safety. After a struggle, the suspect grabbed the knife, pointed it at her and screamed out an obscene threat. Corso was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and menacing, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
A bungling burglar was busted in Clifton after a witness caught him trying to break into a house, authorities said yesterday.
George Bullock, 40, allegedly first broke into a building on Fulton Street near Warren Street on Aug. 19 and made off with a laptop, digital cameras, a video-game console and cash.
On Sunday, a witness spotted the suspect busting into a house next door and called cops, authorities said. Bullock, who is known to stay in vacant houses around the neighborhood, confessed to the first break-in, sources said.
He was charged with burglary, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to the DA’s spokesman.
Brooklyn
A knife-wielding suspect threatened to cut up two volunteer church employees in Boerum Hill, authorities said yesterday.
Norman Betts, 61, approached the two victims, who hand out food to the needy outside New Baptist Church at Schermerhorn and Nevins streets at 10 a.m. Saturday, cops said. The workers gave a bag of canned goods to Betts, who then asked for more food. When the workers refused, the suspect allegedly took out a kitchen knife and threatened to slice them.
Cops were called and arrested Betts, who was charged with menacing and weapon possession.
A teenager punched a 55-year-old man in the eye on a Canarsie Street yesterday morning, cops said.
Dashawn NuÑoz, 18, got into a conversation with the victim on Rockaway Parkway near Foster Avenue at about 3 a.m. The man objected to something the teen said and started walking away – at which point, NuÑoz allegedly slugged him. The victim rode around with cops and spotted the suspect, who was busted on charges of assault and menacing.
A man fondled a woman and assaulted her boyfriend in a Park Slope bar, authorities said yesterday.
Denis Lanza, 36, allegedly grabbed the woman’s buttocks in the saloon on Fifth Avenue at 17th Street at 1 a.m. Monday. The victim’s boyfriend saw the incident and confronted Lanza, who allegedly slugged him in the face. The woman called cops and Lanza was charged with assault and forcible touching.