Staten Island
A New Dorp department-store manager was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a clerk.
On several occasions, most recently on Aug. 18, John Devivo, 57, grabbed the woman and pressed up against her, police said.
Devivo and the woman worked at the TJ Maxx on Hylan Boulevard.
The victim initially made her allegations to store officials, who forwarded the complaints to the NYPD.
Devivo was arrested Thursday and charged with forcible touching and sexual abuse, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Two men were busted for selling crack to an undercover cop in West Brighton, authorities said yesterday.
Stacey English, 37, and Dayrell Johnson met with the cop Wednesday evening at Broadway and Winegar Lane, sources said.
They handed over three small bags of crack in exchange for $60, police said.
The suspects were charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Two drug dealers were arrested for car theft, police said.
Christine Curcio and Ramon Rodriguez, both 28, called the cops and claimed to have been robbed by two men at Hoyt and Forrest avenues in West Brighton shortly before 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 5, sources said.
They claimed that the robbers stole two cellphones and $200 at knifepoint, the sources said.
Curcio and Rodriguez were taken into custody on Wednesday after cops caught them in a stolen car, authorities said.
When grilled, the duo came clean and confessed to 13 other car thefts and admitted they had lied about the earlier robbery, sources said.
They later said they were selling crack to two men when one of the buyers put a knife to Rodriguez’s neck and demanded the drugs and the cash.
Curcio and Rodriguez were charged with 14 counts of car theft and other charges.
Cops are hunting for the serial prowlers pictured above who struck twice at a Dunkin’ Donuts shop in New Dorp.
Police said the crooks struck in the early-morning hours of Aug. 18 when they forced open the front door of the shop on Hylan Boulevard near Allison Avenue and slipped away with cash.
They returned on Sept. 28, allegedly prying open the back door and slipping inside shortly after 3 a.m.
The same thieves are suspected in a break-in at the Dollar Tree store on Hylan Boulevard near Ross Avenue the same day.
Manhattan
A staredown between two groups of teens on a street in Washington Heights sparked a deadly confrontation that left one dead and another wounded, police said.
Brian Maldonado, 17, was stabbed once in the chest during a scuffle with several men at Audubon Avenue and West 187th Street shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
A 16-year-old pal was stabbed in the right arm and the back, cops said.
The teens were taken to Harlem Hospital, where Maldonado died.
The other teen remained in stable condition yesterday. Police believe the attackers fled in a dark-color minivan.
Cops are hunting for the man pictured above, who is allegedly behind a recent string of bank robberies in Gramercy Park and on the Upper East Side.
Cops identified the man as Harold Gilmore, 38. They said he demanded cash from a teller at the Chase branch on First Avenue near East 15th Street shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 7.
About four hours later, he allegedly pulled a heist at the HSBC branch on Third Avenue near East 68th Street.
Gilmore is responsible for three other robberies in the area since then, cops said.
He allegedly struck most recently on Wednesday, demanding cash from a teller at the Wachovia Bank on Broadway near West 57th Street shortly before 4 p.m.
Brooklyn
A man was gunned down near a Red Hook housing project early yesterday, police said.
Cops responding to a call reporting gunfire on Bush Street near Clinton Street, near the Red Hook East Houses, at 12:30 a.m. discovered the 30-year-old unidentified victim shot in the chest and stomach.
He was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where he died.