The Bronx
Officials are offering a $12,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the young fiend who raped a 12-year-old girl in a Tremont alley. The suspect is believed to be in his early to mid-teens and stands about 5-foot-2. The rapist grabbed the girl’s arm near East Tremont Avenue and Southern Boulevard on Feb. 24 and threatened to kill her if she screamed, cops said. After trying unsuccessfully to force her into two locked apartment buildings, the boy dragged her into an alley on Daly Avenue near East 179th Street, where he raped her, police said. Crime Stoppers has offered $2,000 for information leading to the suspect’s arrest and indictment. The Chief of Detectives Office chipped in an additional $10,000 for a conviction.
Manhattan
Police who stopped a man for drinking from a Four Loko can on a Greenwich Village street found a crack pipe and a stolen credit card in his pocket, sources said. Melvin Johnson, 49, was sipping the alcoholic energy drink on Sixth Avenue near Waverly Place on March 19 when he was approached by officers, sources said. When cops searched him, they allegedly found a pipe with cocaine residue along with the stolen credit card, sources said. Johnson was issued an open-container violation, and charged with possession of stolen property and a controlled substance.
Investigators released new surveillance images of two men who used a woman’s credit card shortly after it was stolen at an Upper West Side bar last summer. The 30-year-old victim was at The Dead Poet on Amsterdam Avenue near West 82nd Street on July 9 when she left her wallet on the bar and stepped away. When she returned, the wallet was gone, cops said. Later that night, the suspects used one of the victim’s credit cards at a CVS on Amsterdam Avenue near West 86th Street, police said.
Queens
A stroller-pushing pickpocket swiped $220 from a man at a Flushing grocery store, police said. The thief brushed against the 52-year-old victim at the CJ Supermarket on Main Street near 41st Avenue on March 19 at about 11:45 a.m. and lifted the cash from his left jacket pocket, police said. The female suspect has black hair, and was last seen wearing a white coat and sunglasses.
Officials released new images of a Bonnie and Clyde duo wanted for robberies in St. Albans and Oakland Gardens. The couple was driving around in a white sedan on March 6 when they spotted a 27-year-old woman walking near 195th Street and 110th Avenue at about 2:15 p.m. The male suspect jumped out of the car, shoved the victim to the ground, and took off with her purse, police said. Around 11 a.m. the next day, the pair targeted a 56-year-old woman walking on 64th Avenue and 228th Street, authorities said. The victims were not seriously injured. The suspects were caught on surveillance video using one of the first victim’s credit cards to buy $141 in merchandise at a Walgreens on Hillside Avenue in Jamaica.
A drug dealer and his accomplice tried to mow down undercover cops in Laurelton after a buy-and-bust operation went sour, police sources said.
The plainclothes narcotics officers completed a buy with the suspects on 220th Street near 133rd Avenue Wednesday at about 8 p.m., then trailed them to a nearby gas station on Merrick Boulevard, sources said. When the dealers noticed the cops had followed them, the driver put their Nissan Altima in reverse and nearly hit the cops, who fired a single shot at the fleeing car, sources said. Police arrested and were questioning one of the suspects Thursday, but charges were not immediately filed.