Brooklyn–Eight people were arrested after they allegedly beat and robbed a man for being in a Sunset Park bar with the wrong woman.
The 21-year-old victim was inside Cafe Mix Bar on 61st Street with a 20-year-old Asian woman shortly after 4 a.m. Thursday when several men began badgering him for being with someone of that race, sources said.
The gang attacked the couple outside, the sources said. Cops broke up the melee and arrested Jack Chan, 26, and seven others, said the sources.
Queens
* A limo driver was shot dead in an ambush outside his company’s Long Island City headquarters.
Jaroslaw Bielawski, 62, was sitting in a black Lincoln Town Car outside the offices of Cross Land Cooperate Transportation on 11th Street at 8 p.m. Friday when two men approached, said sources.
One of them fired a single shot, shattering the driver’s-side window and hitting Bielawski in the head, police said. The attackers fled in a car with Pennsylvania license plates.
* It’s the end of the road.
A gun-toting serial bandit was captured in Astoria after trying to escape police in a stolen car.
Victor Mendeng, 33, allegedly threatened a woman at gunpoint on 47th Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.
He took money and fled in a white BMW, sources said. Cops spotted the car near Northern Boulevard a short time later.
After a brief pursuit, he crashed the car and fled, said the sources. He was captured nearby.
Mendeng was slapped with robbery charges in three other heists.
* A teenager was arrested after he was caught on camera setting a fire inside Richmond Hill HS.
Stephen Lezama, 16, was caught on camera setting fire to a bulletin board in a hallway in the school on 114th Street at noon Tuesday, sources said.
When confronted with the video by investigators, he admitted he had used a lighter to start the fire, said the sources.
Manhattan
* A 25-year-old man was shot dead yesterday in East Harlem.
The victim, whose name is withheld pending family notification, was shot in the chest and legs on East 104th Street and Lexington Avenue after he got into a fight, police said.
“I heard five shots, silence, then screaming and crying,” said a witness.
The victim, who is believed to be the intended target, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital where he was pronounced dead. No arrests were made.
* Here’s a very tall tale.
Cops are hunting for a 7-foot bandit and his pint-sized companion following a string of armed robberies in Harlem.
The two were caught on camera robbing valuables and cash from several people inside a hair salon on West 125th Street at 6 p.m. Dec. 27, sources said.
On Dec. 31, the same two bandits robbed workers and customers inside a shop on Seventh Avenue, the sources said.
The duo last struck at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday when they swiped $1,000 from the register and took four cellphones from three employees and a customer at a nail salon on Third Avenue, police said.
One of the suspects is believed to be as tall as 7-foot-2.
His accomplice is about 5-foot-5.