Brooklyn
Police have released a surveillance image of a would-be rapist who allegedly assaulted a Williamsburg mom. The assailant, reeking of alcohol, approached the 36-year-old woman at a bodega on Havemeyer Street near South Third Street around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and tried to strike up a conversation, police said. After she told the creep she wasn’t interested, he trailed her into her apartment building, where he attacked her in the hallway, sources said. The violent perv punched the victim and tore off her clothes as she screamed for help. The victim’s 16-year-old son raced from their apartment and scared off the attacker. The suspect, believed to be between 25 and 35 years old, stands about 6-foot-2, weighs 180 pounds and wore a blue jacket with yellow lettering on the back.
A creep tried to lure an 11-year-old girl into his car in Williamsburg, police said. The perv pulled alongside the girl in his silver SUV as she was walking on Manhattan Avenue near Moore Street around 5:50 p.m. March 13 and waved at her to come toward him, cops said. When she ignored him and kept walking, the would-be abductor parked his car and started following the girl on foot, beckoning her to come with him, authorities said. He drove away when the girl took off running. The bespectacled suspect (depicted in the above sketch) is believed to be about 35 and stands 5-foot-8.
Manhattan
A man busted with 23 grams of heroin at the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Thursday afternoon told PAPD officers he was a diabetic who was only carrying candy, officials said. Patrolling officers noticed Ricardo Castellar, 24, shaking and sweating in the passenger area of Gate 3115 around 4 p.m. and asked if he needed medical help, authorities said. Castellar, of Binghamton, told the cops he was diabetic and that he had candy in his bag. When he opened the bag, the officers spotted several glassine envelopes tucked inside, according to the PAPD.
He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Transit cops found a loaded gun in the pocket of a turnstile jumper at a Harlem subway station early Wednesday morning, authorities said. Officers Christian Serpico and Trevor Wisz were patrolling the West 145th Street Station on the A line just after midnight when they spotted Otha Williams hopping over a turnstile, cops said. Williams, 22, tried to struggle away from the officers, who found a loaded .38-caliber Walther handgun in his pants, police said. Williams, of The Bronx, was hit with a slew of charges including weapons possession, resisting arrest and theft of service.
Queens
A man was shot dead in a robbery gone wrong Thursday afternoon in St. Albans, possibly after being set up by his girlfriend, police sources said. Michael Jonathan, 33, was walking with 30-year-old Natasha Mohabeer on Fonda Avenue near Mayville Street around 2:50 p.m. when a gun-toting crook approached and demanded Jonathan’s cash, sources said. Jonathan handed over his money but then lunged for the gun, sources said. During the struggle the gun went off, sending a fatal round into Jonathan’s stomach. Mohabeer later confessed to cops that she’d orchestrated the stickup, sources said. She was arrested on charges of murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
A thug shot a man in the foot following an argument at a South Ozone Park nightclub early Monday morning, authorities said. The two got into a verbal spat at the Underground Lounge on 123rd Street near Liberty Avenue around 4:20 a.m., according to cops.