Queens
A pregnant woman was stabbed and robbed outside a Corona subway station by the friend of her beau, police said Wednesday. The 26-year-old victim was exiting onto 111th Street just after 7 p.m. Monday when she was approached by Scott Gooden, 26, a friend of her baby’s father, said cops, adding that Gooden demanded that she hand over her purse containing $600. He wrestled the bag away and ran, with the mother-to-be in pursuit, police said. Angry that she was following, he turned, stabbed her in the shoulder with a small knife and continued running, cops said. Gooden was arrested shortly after and the cash was returned, police said.
A suspect grabbed a woman’s butt as she was riding the escalator at a Jackson Heights subway station with her young son, authorities said Wednesday. The suspect came up behind the 31-year-old victim and her 13-year-old son as they were at the 74th Street-Broadway station and grabbed her rear at around 12:50 a.m. Saturday, cops said. The woman managed to snap a photo of the suspect, in his mid 20s, 5-foot-5 and 150 pounds.
Two men forced their way into a woman’s Queens Village home and robbed her early Wednesday, police sources said. The victim was entering her home on Francis Lewis Boulevard when two men wearing gloves came up from behind, pushed her into the apartment and demanded to know where she kept money and valuables, sources said. The thieves took a game console, two wedding bands, a laptop computer, a cellphone and $3, police sources said.
Manhattan
A woman was sexually assaulted at a subway station, authorities said Wednesday. The 32-year-old victim had just left her boyfriend’s apartment in Gramercy and entered the 23rd Street 6-line station at around 10:30 p.m. Saturday. After the woman missed a train by a few seconds, a man grabbed her from behind and touched her genitals, cops said. She was knocked to the ground as she struggled to pull away.
The man pulled down his pants and told her to “Shut up!” He demanded oral sex, but fled when the woman screamed. The victim ran back to her boyfriend’s home and phoned 911. The attacker is a muscular man in his 30s, standing about 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds. He has a shaved head and was sporting a goatee.
One dollar was all a gunman got when he robbed a passer-by on the Upper West Side, police sources said Wednesday. The 27-year-old victim was leaving a restaurant and headed toward West 94th Street at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when the thug approached him and snarled “I have a gun! Give me your money or I’ll shoot you!” The victim threw a dollar bill at the thief, who then fled, apparently satisfied, police sources said.
A woman knocked an 82-year-old man to the ground as she ripped a chain from his neck on the Lower East Side, police sources said Wednesday.
She approached the man as he entered his home and grabbed the chain, causing him to fall to the floor as she fled, law-enforcement sources said.
Brooklyn
Police on Wednesday arrested a homeless man who threw a bottle at another man amid an argument but struck and injured a 3-year-old boy in Sunset Park. Jorge Cayetano, 33, and another man had just bought beer from a supermarket when they got into a fight that spilled out onto Fifth Avenue near 60th Street at around 9 a.m. Tuesday, according to authorities. During the melee, Cayetano chucked a 22-ounce bottle of Olde English at his rival, missing the man and striking little Alex Li in the head, police said. The men scattered, leaving the boy bleeding from a deep gash above his right eye. Li was stitched up at Lutheran Hospital. Cayetano had not been charged as of Wednesday afternoon. Police questioned the other man in the fight on Tuesday.
Two suspects here stole a man’s motorcycle and other property in Brownsville, authorities said Wednesday. The suspects approached the 20-year-old victim at about noon on July 4 on Watkins Street near Linden Boulevard, and one pulled a gun on him. One of the suspects took the guy’s phone while the other hopped on the man’s 2006 Yamaha and sped off. One of the suspects was described as dark-skinned with a slim build. He was wearing a blue outfit, including baseball cap, T-shirt and shorts. The other was light-skinned with short, brown hair and arm tattoos. He was wearing a black T-shirt with red lettering, red shorts with a black stripe and white sneakers.