The Bronx
Two heavy-set women snatched a worker’s purse at a Baychester mall, authorities said Saturday. The two stole the 21-year-old woman’s bag from the stockroom of Accessorize at the Bay Plaza Shopping Center at about 8:30 p.m. on July 27, officials said. They later made purchases using the victim’s debit card, according to authorities. Both suspects are about 5-foot-8 and 230 pounds. One of them is about 30 and was wearing a dress. Her accomplice, about 40, wore a white shirt and dark-colored shorts.
Police are looking for four suspects in the beating of a 23-year-old man in the hallway of a Foxhurst apartment building. The victim was assaulted at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday in the building at Southern Boulevard and Home Street, officials said. The suspects hit the victim in the face and knocked him to the ground, according to authorities.
Police have arrested one of two suspects in the slaying of a 40-year-old man in Parkchester. Dwayne Francis, 20, has been charged with murder, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon for his role in the Aug. 3 homicide, officials said Saturday. The victim, still unidentified by police, was fatally shot in a fight with Francis and another person at about 2 a.m. on Glebe Avenue near Manning Street.
Brooklyn
A man fractured the skull of a foe with a tire iron in Williamsburg, according to police. The two were arguing at about 8 p.m. Thursday on Bedford Avenue near North Seventh Street when the suspect retrieved the weapon from a nearby car, investigators said. He struck the man and then fled, according to police. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital. The suspect is in his late 20s, 5-foot-9 and 190 pounds. He was wearing a dark baseball cap over long black hair, and had on a red T-shirt and red and white basketball sneakers.
Manhattan
Cops are looking for two thugs who assaulted a 36-year-old man at the Times Square subway station. The victim was waiting for a northbound 2 train at about 4:30 a.m. on July 30 when a man and a woman started yelling at him. The two punched him and sprayed him in the face with an unknown substance, and then fled. The spray irritated the victim’s eyes, and he was scratched on the hand. Both assailants are believed to be 19 or 20 years old and about 5-feet tall. The man is about 140 pounds with brown eyes and hair, and was wearing tan pants, black sneakers and a blue shirt. His partner is about 130 pounds with black hair, and was wearing blue jeans, sneakers and a gray shirt, according to law-enforcement sources.
Queens
Pablo Escobar — a guy from Queens, not the late Colombian drug lord — is wanted in the theft of a gold chain from a 4-year-old girl in Astoria, authorities said Saturday. Escobar, 22, grabbed the youngster’s bling at about 6:15 p.m. Friday in front of Won Won Laundromat on 36th Avenue, officials said. Escobar has a lengthy rap sheet that includes drug offenses, and is known to hang out in housing projects, according to police.
Four men were shot when gunfire erupted outside a Richmond Hill night spot, cops said Saturday. A brawl outside Remedy’s Bar Grill & Hookah Lounge on Jamaica Avenue near 105th Avenue at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday led to shots being fired. The victims, 21 to 30 years old, are all expected to survive. Three of them were taken to Jamaica Hospital, while the other was being treated at Elmhurst Hospital.