Brooklyn–A joint FBI-NYPD narcotics task force busted 11 men yesterday morning for running guns and drugs in a raid at the Louis Armstrong projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said.
Members of the gang were charged with selling heroin, cocaine and handguns to undercover agents 70 times over the past two years.
In addition to drugs allegedly found in the suspects’ possession, authorities recovered eight guns, ammunition, a machete, a police scanner and $15,000 in cash.
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Doing one’s tax returns can be a real pain.
Two foes got into a knockdown, drag-out fight when their paths crossed in a downtown Brooklyn H&R Block, cops said yesterday.
Ebony Owens, 25, spotted her 44-year-old nemesis in the Flatbush Avenue outlet in Fort Greene at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, police said.
Owens allegedly flew into a rage and hit her foe repeatedly with a shoe.
Owens fled but later surrendered to cops.
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This stupid remark will weigh heavily on him.
A Brooklyn man who made a crack about his girlfriend’s girth was painfully shown the door when she hit him on the head with a cabinet piece in Canarsie, cops said yesterday.
The 49-year-old victim clashed with Cynthia Melville, 47, in her apartment on East 93rd Street near Flatlands Avenue at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, officers said.
Melville allegedly shoved the victim into a cabinet, breaking off a door.
The unhinged woman then grabbed the unhinged door and bloodied him with it, leading to an assault rap, cops said.
Manhattan
The armed thief pictured here is sought in a string of ATM and store robberies in Greenwich Village and Chelsea.
The crook began his crime spree on Nov. 26, when he struck at ATMs and a deli.
In each case, he allegedly robbed his victims at knifepoint.
Between Jan. 9 and Monday, he struck five more times at businesses in the West Village and Chelsea, using a gun in the latest heists.
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Three burglars attacked a deliveryman in Morningside Heights, authorities said yesterday.
Alisher Mulkaidarov, 20, Dyussengal Abzal, 22, and Madi Kenjebayev, 23, allegedly ransacked a commercial truck at Eighth Avenue and West 118th Street at 2 a.m. last Friday.
The victim, making a delivery nearby, returned to his truck and confronted the suspects, who assaulted him with a hand truck.
Police soon rounded up the would-be thieves.
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It was a brutal “park” row.
A crazed motorist beat a rival for a parking spot on the Upper East Side, cops said yesterday.
Joseph Whelan, 40, cut across four lanes of traffic on First Avenue to snag a parking spot near East 72nd Street at 7:20 p.m. on Jan. 16, sources said.
The victim, who was also vying for the spot, lost out to the aggressive foe, sparking a shouting match, cops said.
Whelan kicked and punched the victim, sending him to the hospital with serious injuries, sources said.
The assailant fled, but a witness jotted down his plate number and gave it to police, cops said.
Whelan was tracked down Monday and charged with assault.
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An eagle-eyed restroom attendant helped capture a thief rummaging through stolen purses in a SoHo club, authorities said yesterday.
The club employee spotted Craig Connelly, 17, with two handbags in the men’s room while the victims were partying in Greenhouse at Varick Street near Spring Street at 4:40 a.m. last Thursday, cops said.
The attendant contacted cops, who quickly busted Connelly.
Staten Island
A car thief was nabbed after police spotted him rifling through vehicles in Tottenville, cops said yesterday.
Police busted Greg Valez, 20, on Joline Avenue at 11:45 p.m. Tuesday after a brief foot chase, sources said.
He had allegedly stolen a white Ford Expedition on Jan. 18 and a black Nissan Pathfinder on Nov. 26.
A witness spotted the stolen Ford with Valez at the wheel Monday and alerted cops.
Sources said a fingerprint Valez left on the Pathfinder also tied him to that theft, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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A thief threatened his parents with a knife and swiped more than $25,000 of their jewelry, cops said yesterday.
Christopher Pantaleo, 32, allegedly brandished the knife and threatened his folks at their home on Russek Drive in Arden Heights at 9 p.m. last Thursday.
Two hours later, he allegedly broke into their safe and swiped necklaces, an engagement ring and a Rolex watch.
The parents discovered the theft and reported it, leading to Pantaleo’s arrest.