The Bronx
Two laptops were stolen from a Melrose law office, authorities said Sunday. A burglar forced open the front door of a multi-business building on East 149th Street near Courtlandt Avenue at around 10:10 p.m. on Nov. 25 and made his way to the law office, where he grabbed the computers. The bespectacled prowler wore a dark hat and carried a backpack.
One man was shot in the face and another suffered a graze wound when a gunman opened fire at a Bronx nightclub early Sunday, cops said. The gunfire broke out at the Garage Bar & Lounge on Tillotson Avenue in Co-Op City at around 2:30 a.m., police said. The victim who was shot in the face was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition. The other man, 25, was treated at Lincoln Hospital, police said.
Brooklyn
A man with an extensive criminal record was found on a Brooklyn sidewalk Sunday morning with five gunshot wounds in his back and died a short time later, cops said. Alfred James, 27, was lying in front of 317 Lexington Ave. in the Armstrong Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant with his pockets turned inside out and his pants around his ankles at around 12:30 a.m., according to police sources. Investigators are trying to determine if a yellow, metal watch with a broken band found near the victim belonged to him or his assailant. James was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he died. He had been arrested 12 times, the records for all but one of which are sealed. The unsealed arrest was on a charge of forcibly touching a 28-year-old woman he knew at a party in June, police sources said.
Investigators have released surveillance photo of a suspect wanted in a string of gunpoint robberies across Bedford-Stuyvesant. The man and two accomplices kicked off their spree at a bodega on Stuyvesant Avenue near Quincy Street at around 11:20 p.m. on Nov. 5, cops said. One of the bandits pointed his gun at a clerk in the Stuyvesant Deli as the three swiped $1,000 and an iPhone. At around 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 13, two of the stickup artists, this time both masked and armed, stole $140 and a prepaid T-Mobile phone card from Henry Plumbing on Marcus Garvey Boulevard near Madison Street. Three days later, all three thieves teamed up to steal $2,900 in cash and cigarettes from the Wilmer Deli Grocery at Rochester Avenue and Herkimer Street at around 10:30 p.m. The crew’s most recent strike came at around 10:15 p.m. on Nov. 27, when two of them took $800 in cash and cigarettes along with an iPhone from the Stephanie Foods Corp. at Lewis Avenue and Decatur Street.
Manhattan
A stylish woman wanted in two knifepoint holdups on the Upper West Side last winter has struck again, authorities said Sunday.
The mugger threatened a 33-year-old woman with a blade on West 105th Street near Broadway and demanded her purse at around 1:45 a.m. on Nov. 29. But the victim escaped unharmed without giving anything to the crook.Investigators believe the same thief robbed a 72-year-old woman of her bag near West 89th Street and Riverside Drive at around 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 18. She’s also suspected of fruitlessly demanding cash from a 62-year-old woman sitting on a park bench near West 84th Street and Riverside Drive at around 6:40 p.m. on Feb. 28. The crook sported bright-green nail polish and wore a black, waist-length jacket and high heels during the Nov. 29 attempted robbery. She is believed to be in her early 20s, stands about 5-foot-4 and weighs approximately 165 pounds.