Manhattan
Two thugs have been arrested for stabbing an East New York store clerk more than 25 times, nearly killing him, authorities said yesterday.
Clark Harris, 19, and Raymond Prince, 36, demanded cash from the victim in a candy shop on Van Siclen Avenue near Stanley Avenue on July 12, cops said.
Prince pulled a knife and repeatedly stabbed the victim in the torso, while Harris choked a witness with a chain, cops said. The assailants fled, empty-handed, but Prince was quickly nabbed by responding officers, cops said.
Harris was arrested Wednesday after the victim ID’d him. Both suspects were charged with attempted murder.
Two men who brutally attacked a Coney Island store employee were nabbed after they showed up at the same hospital as their victim, cops said yesterday.
Daquan Smith, 18, and Christopher Brown, 30, had argued with a man outside a bodega on Mermaid Avenue near West 16th Street at 9:10 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
The fight spilled into the bodega, where the duo set upon the 26-year-old employee, punching him in the face and biting his arm, cops said.
The victim was rushed to Coney Island Hospital.
The suspects went to the same hospital because Brown was injured in the scuffle, police said.
Officers who were there with the victim spotted the suspected thugs, who were nabbed for assault.
Manhattan
A burglar placed an empty cash envelope on top of a bed after swiping $3,000 from a Greenwich Village apartment, police said yesterday.
The 46-year-old victim had left the apartment on Thompson Street near West Houston Street at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 12.
When he returned that night, he noticed there had been no forced entry and the envelope, minus the cash, was sitting on top of his bed.
A thief swiped $685 after slipping into a SoHo cafe, police sources said yesterday.
The unidentified man jimmied a sliding glass door in the back of the restaurant on Thompson Street near Prince Street at 6:08 a.m. Wednesday.
He smashed a register, took the money and fled.
Crime doesn’t pay — or, at least, it hardly does.
A female thief made off with just $4 during the robbery of a Murray Hill woman.
The crook confronted the 28-year-old victim as she opened the front door to her building on Second Avenue near 35th Street at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
The bandit grabbed the woman’s purse, but found only $4 inside. The crook complained about the paltry score, then bolted.
Staten Island
Sometimes people are just too honest.
Rizmon Axhijaja, who was caught driving while whacked out on drugs, admitted to police that he had ingested Xanax and smoked pot, authorities said yesterday.
Cops spotted Axhijaja, 25, driving erratically and pulled him over on Todt Hill Road at Todt Hill Court at around 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
Officers noticed Rizmon reeked of booze and was slurring his words as he confessed, “Today, I took a Xanax and smoked marijuana,” sources said.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Axhijaja was charged with driving while impaired by drugs.
Queens
Maybe he was hungry.
A would-be thief was busted after he tried to push open a kitchen window at a Corona home, cops said yesterday.
Alexander Martinez, 22, allegedly tried to push open the win dow at the home on 48th Avenue near 108th Street at 8:50 p.m. on Nov. 15.
A witness spotted him and called cops.
Martinez was soon under arrest and charged with at tempted criminal trespass, a spokes woman for DA Rich ard Brown said.