NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
The Bronx
Police released surveillance photos, including the one above, of the suspect who attacked and robbed an elderly woman in Belmont, authorities said.
He allegedly followed the 82-year-old victim into the vestibule of her Arthur Avenue building near 188th Street at about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, snatched her gold neck chain and shoved her to the ground.
He then kicked her and fled, said cops, adding that he dropped the chain as he fled and an unwitting passer-by picked it up and returned it to him.
The suspect was described by witnesses as Hispanic with a thin build and was wearing a black cap bearing a Brooklyn Nets logo, a white T-shirt, gray shorts and black sneakers.
Brooklyn
The suspects pictured above shot a 26-year-old man a total of six times in Bushwick and afterward their female accomplice rushed to pick up the shell casings, authorities said.
The gunmen each fired three rounds into the victim on Starr Avenue shortly after midnight last Friday, cops said.
The shooters ran while their cohort took the casings and the victim dragged himself to a hospital.
The victim has not cooperated with cops in their investigation.
Queens
Cops are looking for the suspects pictured at right who allegedly went on a pharmacy shoplifting spree in Ridgewood.
They first struck on June 23 at about 8 p.m., stealing various items from a Rite Aid on Grandview Avenue, cops said.
About 40 minutes later, they hit a Walgreens on Myrtle Avenue, according to police.
On July 17 at 7 p.m., the suspects allegedly hit a Rite Aid on Myrtle Avenue.
They made a return visit to the Myrtle Avenue Rite Aid on Aug. 16 at about 6 p.m., cops said.
Police say the suspects range in age from 18 to 22.
Manhattan
A man hailed a cab on the Lower East Side and ended up assaulting the driver, stealing the vehicle and heading uptown — where he was arrested, cops said.
At 2:15 a.m. Wednesday, Dave Belizaire, 23, flagged down the yellow taxi at the Bowery and Rivington Street and gave the driver a destination address, authorities said.
But at Chystie and Stanton streets, an argument broke out and the driver told Belizaire to scram, cops said.
Belizaire did exit the car, but pulled the driver out of his seat, punched him in the face and bit his fingers, police said.
Belizaire then fled in the taxi. About 30 minutes later officers Nicolas Savitt and Michael Caldarera were on patrol in East Harlem when they spotted the Toyota taxi that had been reported stolen and busted the suspect at Park Avenue and East 102nd Street.
Police arrested a teen who stabbed and slashed a man at a Harlem subway station, authorities said.
The knife-wielding punk, identified as 17-year-old Victor Cherry, squared off with the 42year-old victim at the 125th Street/Lenox Avenue station at 8 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
Cherry allegedly slashed the victim on the right hand and stabbed him on the left hand.
Cherry was arrested Wednesday.
Two men were arrested Thursday for stealing containers of ice cream from retailers in separate incidents on the Upper East Side, authorities said.
Jerome Robinson, 50, was busted when he tried to exit the Gristedes at Lexington Avenue and East 89th Street with a bag filled with about $84 worth of Häagen-Dazs at 10:30 a.m., police said.
At 12:30 p.m., cops were called to a Duane Reade at Second Avenue and East 80th Street, where they busted Jesus Ayala, 50, who had allegedly filled a bag with 18 Häagen-Dazs containers worth $103 and tried to flee.
Last September, Robinson was caught stealing more than $200 of Häagen-Dazs from a First Avenue drugstore, cops said.
Last October, Ayala allegedly stole five containers worth $30 from a Lexington Avenue Gristedes.
Police have arrested two teens suspected of beating up a sleeping straphanger and stealing his cell phone in Hudson Heights, authorities said.
The 19-year-old victim was napping on a 1 train when Wilson Salas, 17, and a 15-year-old accomplice started punching and kicking him in the face, cops said.