Manhattan
Three intruders tied up a woman and swiped money and electronics from her Inwood apartment during a terrifying late-night home invasion, cops said yesterday.
The trio barged into the apartment on Bogardus Place near Hillside Avenue at 10:50 p.m. Friday after the 46-year-old resident answered her door.
They pushed her inside, threatened to shoot her and tied her up, sources said.
The thugs were wearing latex gloves, authorities said.
One of the creeps also brandished a screwdriver.
The robbers swiped $3,000, a cellphone and a laptop before fleeing.
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She wasn’t very sharp.
A Brooklyn woman carrying knives and flare guns was busted at the Penn Station subway stop, police said yesterday.
Deeta Sinclair, 51, was in the subway station at around noon Friday when a cop saw her with a boot knife and stopped her, police said.
The officer searched Sinclair and also found two gravity knives, two loaded flare guns and two serrated knives, authorities said.
Police later also recovered a medieval sword and an air gun from Sinclair’s Bedford-Stuyvesant home.
She was charged with multiple counts of weapon possession.
Brooklyn
Search me! I dare you!
A Bedford-Stuyvesant man tore off his clothes to prove to two intruders that he didn’t have anything to steal, police sources said yesterday.
The 37-year-old man, his wife and baby daughter were at home when the gun-toting perps forced their way into their apartment on Gates Avenue near Malcolm X Boulevard at about 4 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
At first, the male victim opened his dresser drawers and closets to show he didn’t have anything.
When that didn’t work, he took off his clothes
Still not satisfied, the perps continued their futile search until they finally left.
No one was injured.
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An armed bandit made off with more than $15,000 after robbing a worker who was counting the weekend take in the office of an East Flatbush store, police sources said yesterday.
The thief pointed a silver 9mm gun at the head of the employee in the office at Proline Car Stereo on Utica Avenue near Linden Boulevard at about 9:30 a.m. Monday, authorities said.
The thug ordered the worker to his knees, removed $15,600 from a register, and demanded that the victim count to 20 before coming out of the office.
After the robber fled, the victim told workers in another part of the store what had happened, and they started chasing the thief. They stopped their pursuit when the creep told them he had a gun.
Bronx
A pack of wild thugs viciously assaulted a teen and his uncle as they were walking to a relative’s home in the South Bronx, police sources said yesterday.
The gang accosted the 16-year-old boy and his 26-year-old uncle on Westchester Avenue near Prospect Avenue at 2:03 a.m. Sunday.
One assailant snarled at the teen, “Give me your belt or I’ll stab you!”
When the teen refused to hand over the belt, one of the combatants stabbed him in the forearm, sources said.
The uncle suffered a possible broken nose during the attack.
Both were treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.
The assailants fled.
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A motorist is lucky to be alive after he was carjacked by three gun-wielding thugs in Morris Heights, cops said yesterday.
The 55-year-old victim was driving along the Grand Concourse near 182nd Street at 2 a.m. Monday when he pulled over and a gunman jumped into his car and barked, “Do what I tell you to do!” police said.
The thug instructed him to drive to 150th Street and Walton Avenue, where they picked up the perp’s two accomplices.
The ringleader put a gun to the victim’s stomach and ordered him out of the car, and all three drove off, police said.
The car was recovered on East 101st Street in Manhattan.
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Whoa, baby!
An apparently pregnant woman slashed a female straphanger during a nasty fight on a subway train in Mott Haven, police said yesterday.
The assailant, in her late 20s, clashed with the 24-year-old woman on a northbound No. 4 train at 138th Street/Grand Concourse at 8:15 p.m. Sunday, authorities said.
The older woman slugged her rival in the face, and the other woman retaliated by pulling a folding knife and slashing the victim’s left arm.
The attacker then fled.