Brooklyn
A hulking hothead heaved a trash can through the window of a Coney Island cellphone retailer, according to cops.
At 3:20 p.m. on June 30, the suspect walked into Cell Phone Doctor on Mermaid Avenue near West 16th Street with a phone and asked an employee to activate it, police said.
The worker refused after a database flagged the device as stolen.
The suspect flew into a rage and chucked a garbage can through the window, causing $800 in damage, authorities said.
Three suspects robbed a 67-year-old woman at gunpoint in her Coney Island apartment building, authorities said.
The trio followed the victim into the building on Neptune Avenue at 8 p.m. on Sept. 9 and piled into the elevator with her, according to cops.
One of the thugs then pulled a gun and demanded the senior’s money, police said.
The crooks fled with the woman’s handbag containing $20 and her cellphone, said law-enforcement authorities.
The Bronx
A suspect was arrested on charges of stabbing a teen to death and wounding the victim’s brother outside a Mott Haven high school, police said Wednesday.
Christian Tucker, 20, fatally stabbed Joshua Acosta, 18, and wounded Acosta’s 20-year-old sibling outside Samuel Gompers HS near East 147th Street and Wales Avenue at about 3:45 p.m. Monday, authorities said.
The brothers were rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where Joshua died Tuesday from wounds to the torso, authorities said.
His older brother, who was stabbed in the back, was treated and released.
Tucker was charged with murder, manslaughter and weapon possession, cops said.
A 19-year-old man shot by police in Mott Haven after allegedly pointing a gun at officers has been charged, authorities said.
Patrol cops saw Damien Anderson firing a .22-caliber revolver near East 146th Street and College Avenue at 5:45 p.m. Monday, officials said.
Anderson then took aim at one of the officers, but an officer shot the alleged gunman in elbow before Anderson could get off a shot, authorities said.
Anderson then dropped the gun and bolted into his apartment in the nearby Patterson Houses, where officers found the wounded another loaded firearm, said law-enforcment sources..
Anderson was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, officials said.
Manhattan
She nearly ended up singing the blues.
A thief swiped a woman’s bag at a Greenwich Village karaoke lounge but was chased down by a club patron, police sources said.
Anthony Beacham, 33, grabbed the bag from the bar at Karaoke BOHO on West Fourth Street near Barrow Street at 1:40 a.m. last Friday and bolted for the door, sources added.
An intrepid club-goer saw Beacham fleeing with the bag and chased him down outside the lounge, sources said.
Cops responded and returned the bag containing an iPhone 4S and credit cards to the 23-year-old victim.
Beacham was charged with grand larceny.
Police released surveillance images of a sicko who sexually assaulted a woman in her Upper West Side apartment.
The suspect trailed the 36-year-old victim into her building near West 105th Street and Central Park West at 10:30 p.m. last Friday and told the skeptical woman he was meeting a friend, police sources said.
The victim went into her apartment but didn’t immediately lock the door behind her, and the 6-foot-2, 200-pound brute burst in and put the woman in a chokehold, according to sources.
He then fondled the woman and forced her to perform a sex act on him, said law-enforcement sources.
The victim received hospital treatment for scrapes and bruises.
The suspect, believed to be in his 40s, left behind a baseball cap that is being tested for DNA, law-enforcement sources said.