The Bronx
AÂ suspect broke into a Claremont restaurant in the early-morning hours of Jan. 18 and swiped $1,500, authorities said. The burglar kicked in a window-mounted air-conditioning unit and entered A & R Cafeteria Corp. on East 174th Street near Eastburn Avenue at about 4 a.m., cops said. Surveillance video shows the break-in artist slipping through the window, flicking on the lights and grabbing the cash from behind a counter. He is believed to be about 45 years old, authorities said.
Brooklyn
A touch-and-go creep groped a woman walking with her boyfriend in South Slope early on New Year’s Day, cops said. Police said the 38-year-old victim and her partner were near 19th Street and Fifth Avenue at about 5:20 a.m. when the suspect approached from behind and grabbed the woman’s front and rear. He then took off, sprinting north on 19th Street, said law-enforcement authorities.
Manhattan
A suspect boosted three bottles of cologne from an Upper East Side cosmetics store and flashed a weapon at a worker who tried to stop him, cops said. The sticky-fingered stinker slipped the fragrance bottles into a plastic shopping bag at the Sephora on East 86th Street near Lexington Avenue at 6:05 p.m. on Jan. 22, then made a beeline for the exit, police said. When a security guard tried to intercept him, the shoplifter revealed what appeared to be a gun and dashed out the door, authorities said. The suspect is believed be in his 30s and stands about 6 feet tall, said law-enforcement authorities.
Queens
Law-enforcement officials have announced an arrest in the borough’s first homicide of 2015. Shyron Kearse, 34, allegedly gunned down 30-year-old Troy Grant at an apartment on 71st Avenue in the Pomonok Houses in Fresh Meadows at about 2:35 a.m. on Jan. 2, authorities said. When Grant, who lived in another building in the complex but was spending the night with an acquaintance, answered a knock on the door, Kearse allegedly shot him in the head twice and dashed off, police said. First responders pronounced Grant dead at the scene. Kearse, who also lives in the Pomonok Houses, was arrested Friday on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon, said law-enforcement authorities.