Brooklyn
An off-duty NYPD detective with 28 years on job was caught boozing behind the wheel in Bensonhurst, cops said.
Detective James Nash, 53, was at Quentin Road and West Fifth Street at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday when he got into a minor accident with another vehicle, according to police.
Arriving officers suspected that the Brooklyn South Homicide detective had been imbibing, and he refused to take a breath test, cops said.
Nash was charged with DWI and refusing to take the Breathalyzer, cops said.
No one was injured in the fender-bender.
The Bronx
A naked body was found floating in the Harlem River by Roberto Clemente State Park in Morris Heights Thursday, near where a man wearing no clothes had been seen jumping into the water last Saturday with a bouquet of roses clenched in his teeth.
Witnesses and authorities said that before the man entered the water, he left behind his clothing and a large urn etched with the name of someone who had died in June 2007.
The body was found floating at about 8:30 a.m., cops said. There were no immediate signs of trauma.
Cops were waiting for the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine a cause of death and confirm the victim’s identity.
Cops released photos of a man who allegedly shot a strip-club patron as the victim was making his way from a brawl in Mott Haven.
After two rival groups came to blows inside the Sin City Cabaret on Park Avenue near East 138th Street just before 3 a.m. on May 7, bouncers booted everyone from the jiggle joint, police said.
The violence escalated outside the club when the gun-slinging suspect pulled a weapon and opened fire, hitting a 26-year-old man walking away from the fracas, cops said.
The victim was struck in the left thigh and torso, officials said. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
The suspected gunman is taller than 6 feet and stocky, and was wearing a black jacket.
He is believed to frequent the River Park Towers housing complex in Morris Heights, authorities added.
Cops say two men broke into the boiler room of an apartment building off Pelham Parkway and swiped saws, floor sanders and drain cleaner.
The crooks sneaked into the building on Cruger Avenue near Brady Avenue just after midnight Saturday and made their way to the storage room, police said.
One of the burglars is believed to be in his 40s and was wearing a Mets cap, a light-colored T-shirt and dark pants.
His accomplice, also in his 40s, was wearing a light-colored baseball cap, glasses, a light-colored T-shirt and dark pants.
Queens
Two heartless thieves, a man and a woman, knocked down an elderly lady pushing a grocery cart in Jamaica and grabbed her purse, police said.
But feisty 73-year-old victim Patricia Tomitz later told friends she would have fought back if she hadn’t been so shocked.
“She said she could have beaten the girl up,” said Tomitz’s neighbor and friend, Eleanor Caldwell.
The brazen Tuesday- afternoon attack at 153rd Street and 88th Avenue was recorded on surveillance video.
It shows a young man and a young woman following Tomitz, then the man punching her and his accomplice grabbing away the purse containing a cellphone and $100.
An off-duty NYPD detective was nearby and chased the suspects, but couldn’t manage to overtake them.
Tomitz was treated at Jamaica Hospital for an ear laceration and arm abrasions, according to authorities.
Thieves held up an Ozone Park resident near his home and got away with his 2014 Range Rover, $25,000 Rolex watch, $500 in cash and iPhone, cops said.
The 47-year-old victim was walking toward his house at about 11:30 p.m. on April 24 when two men pulled up in a silver Dodge minivan, police said.
One of the men pulled a gun on the victim, and the robbers demanded his Range Rover keys, watch, wallet and phone, cops added.
The victim complied, and he was not injured as the robbers fled, police said.
The two were wearing black masks, black jackets and blue jeans.