The Bronx
A holdup man robbed a Parkchester deli at gunpoint, police said. The suspect was seen on surveillance video waving a gun at a worker behind the counter at Mike and Andy Mini Mart on Guerlain Street and White Plains Road at 2:50 p.m. last Friday, cops said. He swiped $500 from the register, grabbed two iPhones and fled, according to police. The suspect appears to be in his late 20s to early 30s and was carrying a large blue duffel bag.
Brooklyn
Two suspects robbed a Bushwick home after prying open a basement door, police said. The thieves entered the home on Putnam Avenue between 6 p.m. on Feb. 20 and 7 a.m. the next day and stole an iPad, MacBook, purse, five screw guns and other valuables, cops added. The suspects were seen on surveillance video near the scene of the crime, police said. Both are believed to be in their late 40s with thin builds.
Cops slapped cuffs on two alleged subway hip-hop pole dancers on a Brooklyn Heights train, police sources said. The suspects, Robert Mathews and Aldeno Wright, both 16, and a third teen were busting moves when transit cops came by at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station at about 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday, the sources said. Officers grabbed Mathews and Wright, but the third suspect managed to flee, the sources said. Mathews and Wright were charged with reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and loitering, police said. Wright has four prior arrests for allegedly pulling the same stunt, the sources said.
Manhattan
Three speedy burglars busted through the wall of a jewelry store on the Upper East Side and stole more than $150,000 in about six minutes, police sources said. The masked men entered Torino Jewelry on Lexington Avenue near East 60th Street at 1:06 a.m. on Feb. 23 after carving a large hole in a wall, according to police sources. The men set off an alarm that alerted the owner, who remotely logged into video surveillance at 1:09 a.m. but didn’t see anything suspicious, sources said. The robbers cleaned out the display cases, taking gold jewelry and diamonds, sources said. The men were gone at 1:12 a.m. and may have used a third-floor window to escape, sources said. At 7 a.m. a neighbor saw the large hole in the wall and called police, sources said. The burglars are on the lam.
A crook suspected of six robberies since January struck again last week, holding up workers at a Soho wine shop at knife-point, cops said. With a pal tagging along, the punk brandished the blade at Wine Therapy on Elizabeth Street near Spring Street at around 9:45 p.m. last Friday and swiped $1,000 in cash, said law-enforcement authorities. The suspects are described as black males in their late 20s standing about 5-foot-9. One suspect was last seen wearing a gray hoodie while the other was in a black jacket, police said. The knife-wielder is also suspected of robbing a chocolatier, boutiques and an art gallery.
A stealthy thief snatched a high-end, $4,500 tool from a West Village construction site, sources said. The robber made it up to the seventh floor of condos under construction on Laight Street between Washington and Greenwich streets sometime between 10 a.m. on Feb. 18 and 2 p.m. on Feb. 23, when workers looked for their pricey plumbing device and realized it was gone, sources added. The equipment had been secured in a container, sources added.
Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found beneath the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights Tuesday. The body was discovered in the fetal position on Riverside Drive at about 2 p.m., cops said. There were no obvious signs of trauma and the body was severely decomposed, sources said. Investigators are working with the Medical Examiner’s Office, which will determine a cause of death to aid in their investigation.