Queens
*Cops say they’re hunting for two armed thugs wanted for holding up nearly a dozen pharmacies in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn over the past seven months.
The suspects — described as black, 20 to 30 years old, about 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds — typically enter the stores with their faces covered, flash handguns and stroll behind the counter or into back room, where they swipe prescription medicines and cash.
They began their spree in April and struck for the 11th time on Nov. 6 inside the Fair Deal Pharmacy in Jackson Heights.
*A thug wielding a box cutter slashed another man’s throat on a Corona street following a bar run-in, cops said.
Benjamin Cazares, 30, and another man, who was accompanying his girlfriend to the bar bathroom, bumped into each other Sunday.
Cazares, who sources believe may have hit on the woman during a previous incident, later approached the man in front of 103-11 39th Ave. at about 3:15 p.m. and severely cut his throat, cops said.
The victim was taken to a hospital, where he received 31 stitches, cops said.
A box cutter was recovered at the scene and Cazares was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon.
Staten Island
*A Bronx woman was busted for shaking her 2-month-old granddaughter because she wouldn’t stop crying, cops said.
Natalie Greene, 40 was baby-sitting the child at 37 Newark Ave. on Oct. 9, at about 3 p.m. when the infant wouldn’t stop bawling, sources said.
She then allegedly squeezed the baby, fracturing numerous ribs. When the infant still wouldn’t stop crying, Greene continued shoving the baby’s head into her stroller.
After beating the child, Greene then put a pacifier in her mouth, which ultimately stopped the crying, cops said.
When the infant’s parents returned home, they noticed a change in the baby’s behavior and took her to the hospital. She had five rib fractures and skull injuries but is expected to make a full recovery, cops said.
Greene was arrested and charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
*Blame it on the drugs.
A coked-up thief who stole a woman’s pocketbook from a Dongan Hills doctor’s office has finally been arrested nearly a year after his crime, authorities said.
Michael Martire, 45, of Snug Harbor, told cops his cocaine habit led him to bust into the office on Richmond Road near Forest Road last Dec. 27, according to court papers.
“I went into a doctor’s office and took a wallet,” he said. “I was addicted to cocaine; I did a lot of stealing.”
Martire swiped a woman’s pocketbook containing $300 in cash and several credit cards.
He was caught on camera, but it took cops nearly 11 months to find him. He was booked last Thursday.
*It was quite a wake-up call.
Cops busted up a drug den in Pleasant Plains, collared a man as he slept and confiscated his drug stash and shotgun with ammo, according to police reports.
Acting on a tip, cops woke up Michael Cahill, 18, at around 6 a.m. in his parents’ residence located on Pleasant Plains Avenue near Amboy Road, authorities said.
Narcotics detectives discovered a 12-gauge Mossberg shotgun with the serial number scratched off, 11 non-prescription pills and bags with a powdery residue.
Cahill told cops the drugs were pain pills for a knee injury before he admitted his girlfriend was his supplier.
*A motorist hopped up on Xanax and marijuana was caught driving with a suspended license after cops pulled him over, according to authorities.
Ralph Amato, 33, was seen speeding in his 2010 model Cadillac SUV on Iroquois Street and Fr. Capodanno Boulevard at 2:35 p.m. on Wednesday before being pulled over, cops said.
Police noticed Amato’s shifting eyes, slurred answers and his unsteadiness. Amato told the patrol unit he had taken a potent mix of drugs.
“I took one-and-a-half sticks of Xanax this afternoon and I smoked [pot] earlier,” he told authorities.
Along with the five rectangular pills and two joints cops found on Amato, they also found a gravity knife.
Brooklyn
*A pistol-packing bandit and his cohort were captured on camera swiping cash from a Bedford-Stuyvesant bodega, authorities said.
Corey Adolphus, 21, and an unidentified armed man tore into a grocery store located on Halsey Street near Throop Avenue at around 9 p.m. on Oct 29.
Adolphus allegedly announced a robbery before jumping the countertop and taking $500 from the register and a cigar box.
After the robbers ran off, the clerks called 911.
Adolphus turned himself in Thursday, allegedly telling cops, “I didn’t do it but [an accomplice] convinced me.”
Police are still looking for the accomplice.