NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Brooklyn
Crown Heights vandals have repeatedly cut down Orthodox Jewish demarcation wires that created an eruv — and the NYPD is investigating the acts as hate crimes.
The eruv wires — which run among light poles to create symbolic sections where observant Jews may carry or move items outside the home on the Sabbath — were cut down on July 8 and July 14, police said.
The wires were installed by a Modern Orthodox synagogue known as Congregation Kol Israel in June.
But the eruv has been derided by members of the local Lubavitch Jewish community, which traditionally does not believe in the enclosure, according to DNAinfo.com.
Queens
Police are looking for a suspect who allegedly lured a 10-year-old girl into his car in Richmond Hill, cops said.
The child was walking near her family’s 102nd Street home at 7 a.m. Wednesday en route to summer school when the suspect pulled up in his car and struck up a conversation, cops said.
“Where you going? I’ll take you,” the man said, according to police.
When the girl mentioned that she was on her way to school, the man earned her trust by claiming he was her mother’s cousin.
Her grandfather, who happened to be across the street, saw the girl get into the car and tried to stop her, but it was too late. He called police as the vehicle sped away.
But the alleged abductor apparently got cold feet and forced the girl out at Jamaica Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard.
She continued walking to school, where police had already alerted staffers.
The girl was reunited with her mom an hour later.
The unharmed child was taken to Jamaica Hospital for a precautionary evaluation.
The suspects pictured at right allegedly used credit-card information illegally acquired from 58 victims in Queens to go on a massive shopping spree in Brooklyn, cops said.
Between May 25 and July 18, 58 victims were notified by their banks that their creditcard numbers had been compromised.
The fraudsters used the victims’ information to purchase more than $30,000 in merchandise at various locations in East New York and Brownsville, police said.
A man was fatally shot in the head amid a drug dispute in Flushing, authorities said.
Richard Brown, 50, was at 35th Avenue and Farrington Street when a man pulled up on a motorcycle at 11:50 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
The men walked and talked, then the suspect pulled a gun and shot Brown, investigators said.
Brown, of Hempstead, LI, was pronounced dead at New York Hospital Queens.
Manhattan
Someone scrawled threatening messages on a Harlem church on Wednesday, cops said.
Surveillance video captured the man writing things like “You must pay,” “Allah” and “Wake up” on the walls of St. Catherine of Genoa Church on West 153rd Street near Amsterdam Avenue at about noon Wednesday.
The words “I learned so much here,” “book sale” and “candy” were also sprayed on the walls.
There are no suspects at this time, police said.
Police have arrested a suspect in the attempted rape of an 8-year-old girl in the bedroom of her family’s East Harlem apartment.
Juan Barreto, 27, climbed through the girl’s bedroom window via the fire escape of the building on East 108th Street near First Avenue at about 11:15 p.m. on July 7 and tried to sexually assault her.
When the girl screamed, the suspect fled out the window.
Barreto was busted Wednesday and charged with attempted rape, burglary and endangering the welfare of a child, law-enforcement officials said.
The Bronx
Cops are looking for the suspect pictured above who allegedly shot a man in the back in Morrisania.
The gunman approached the 24-year-old victim at Tinton Avenue and East 168th Street on July 14 at 9 p.m., shot him and fled.
The victim received hospital treatment and was released.
Police describe the suspect as having a medium complexion and medium build with black hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a multicolored shirt and blue jeans.