NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
Brooklyn
A convicted murderer told police he was abducted, stabbed and robbed by two men trying to collect a debt in Coney Island on Friday, law-enforcement sources said.
Donald Wallace, 68, who was released from prison in 1992 after he served 20 years for murder, told police that the men ordered him to withdraw cash from an ATM in a Pay-O-Matic check-cashing store at about 3:30 a.m., sources said.
When his PIN didn’t work, the two men forced him into a gray SUV at knifepoint near West 24th Street and Mermaid Avenue, according to sources.
His captors allegedly stabbed him once in the head and three times in the back and stole his cash.
Wallace said he took out his own knife and cut one of the men, sources said.
Wallace told cops he managed to flee the vehicle near Avenue W and Nostrand Avenue in Sheepshead Bay.
The Bronx
A masked thief dragged a City Island woman by the hair and stole two safes from her apartment during a home invasion, cops said.
The victim was inside her Pilot Street apartment Wednesday at about 8 p.m. when the door buzzer rang and someone told her to come downstairs to sign for a package.
The woman went downstairs and did not see anyone in the lobby.
When she returned to her apartment, a masked gunman (above) was standing in the foyer, police said.
The man grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into a bedroom, where he hit her on the eyebrow with the butt of the gun before grabbing a small safe and stuffing it in a duffel bag.
He then dragged the helpless victim into a second bedroom, where he snatched another safe and put it in the same bag, according to police.
The thief demanded that the woman lie on the ground until he left, cops said. She refused medical attention.
The thief wore dark blue jeans, black-and-white sneakers, a black hooded sweatshirt and a blackand-white skull ski mask.
A man was shot dead outside a bodega in Concourse Village, police said.
A gunman pumped several bullets into the chest of Kareem Moye, 27, in front of 300 E. 170th St. about 12:45 a.m. Friday.
EMS took Moye to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, but he could not be saved.
Police said there was no argument or words exchanged between the two before the shooting.
The shooter wore a black hooded jacket, black hat and blue jeans.
A city correction worker was ticketed for driving without a license in Morrisania, cops said.
Christopher Hawkins, 46, was pulled over for a blown headlight near East 167th Street and Third Avenue about 1:20 a.m. Friday.
Cops learned the correction worker didn’t have a valid license.
He was given a desk-appearance ticket for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and driving with a defective headlight.
A man punched a female cellphone-store employee who tried to stop him when he attempted to steal a device in Tremont, cops said.
The man went behind the counter at a Boost Mobile store on East Tremont Avenue near Lafontaine Avenue on Thursday at around 9:35 a.m. and tried to grab a phone.
When the employee tried to stop him, the suspect (above) socked her in the face before fleeing, according to police.
A man was mugged in Allerton, cops said.
Three men believed to be in their 20s stopped the victim on Holland Avenue Monday at about 6:30 p.m., and one of them pulled a gun, according to authorities.
The bandits stole the victim’s Apple iPhone 7 Plus, a debit card and approximately $90 in cash.
A woman burgled a Mount Hope apartment building and took a laptop and cellphone, police said.
The suspect, identified by cops as Tiffany Lopez, 26, (above) broke into the residence near East 179th Street and Creston Avenue about 10:50 a.m. Dec. 5, according to police.
She took an HP laptop and Samsung cellphone from the victim, whom she knows, cops said.
Cops said Lopez is 5-foot-3 and 145 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.