New York Post

NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER

- Doug Auer, Kirstan Conley and Rebecca Harshbarge­r

Manghattan

drugaddict­ed excon was busted for a minicrime spree in Midtown and Chelsea, authoritie­s said.

Anthony Moore, 47, allegedly smashed a rock through a glass door at Oren’s Daily Roast on Third Avenue near East 30th Street at about 1 a.m. on Aug. 21 and fled with cash from the register.

On Sunday, he struck at 1:30 p.m. at a TMobile store on Seventh Avenue near West 28th Street, but left emptyhande­d, cops said.

Minutes later, Moore threatened a clerk at nearby Catwalk shoe store while brandishin­g what an employee believed was a knife, court records state.

Moore ran off with a handful of money, but was arrested 10 minutes later with $105 in cash, a crack pipe and crack, cops said.

He admitted to committing the three crimes because he needed cash for drugs, court papers state.

“I had a hairbrush in my pocket and demanded money,” Moore said while allegedly confessing to the Catwalk holdup.

He was charged with burglary, robbery and drug possession.

Moore has served seven prison stints, for drug sales, burglary and attempted burglary, records show.

Brookryn

nCops are on the lookout for the crook pictured above who mugged a woman at gunpoint in Red Hook, authoritie­s said.

The suspect approached the 33yearold victim from behind on Dikeman Street near Dwight Street at 12:05 p.m. Saturday, flashed a black revolver and snarled, “Give me everything. Empty your pockets!”

The victim suddenly threw coffee at him and dropped her bag and cellphone, cops said.

The thief grabbed the items and ran off.

nAn electronic­s thief swiped a $350 iPod and a $160 Garmin GPS from a parked car in Sunset Park, cops said.

The items were boosted from a 2007 Toyota Camry parked at 58th Street and First Avenue sometime between 4 and 11:50 p.m. on Aug 12.

nCops are looking for a vandal who entered a Sunset Park restaurant and bizarrely smashed dining plates, cops said.

The culprit ran into the Lucky 8 restaurant at Eighth Avenue and 52nd Street at about 8:40 p.m. on Aug. 13, broke 10 plates valued at a total of $100 and fled, cops added.

nA bandit stole a $200 mountain bike off a street in Greenwood, cops said.

The 50yearold victim had left the bicycle, colored white with purple trim, on the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue near 21st Street at about 4 a.m. on Aug. 13, and returned 30 minutes later to discover it had been taken, cops added.

Investigat­ors are reviewing neighborho­od surveillan­ce video in their bid to find the thief.

nA scamming NYPD employee is accused of bilking her Crown Heights daycare business out of $2,500 to pay her boyfriend, authoritie­s said.

In June, Latisha Isbell, 37, who operates Creative Minds Childcare on Eastern Parkway, forged her business partner’s signature on Chase bank checks from the company account and gave them to her boyfriend, a former staffer at the facility, cops said.

The scam was uncovered when a bank teller notified Isbell’s partner, cops added.

She surrendere­d Monday at the 77th Precinct station house on charges of forgery, identity theft and grand larceny.

Isbell is a police adminis trative aide at the 84th Precinct in Brooklyn Heights.

She has been suspended without pay.

Queens

nA Flushing cop was arrested for a domesticvi­olence incident involving his girlfriend on Long Island, authoritie­s said.

Police Officer Edwin Martinez, 29, and Sabrina Cacciato, 27, got into a fight on Gold Street in Valley Stream at about 10:40 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.

During the argument, they grabbed and broke each other’s cellphones, cops added.

Cacciato also allegedly smashed a window of Martinez’s home.

Martinez, a sevenyear veteran assigned to the 109th Precinct, was charged with misdemeano­r criminal mischief and was suspended without pay for 30 days.

Cacciato was charged with two counts of criminal mischief.

Staten Island

nAn excon was arrested for a string of Port Richmond burglaries, authoritie­s said. On Aug. 16 at 2 a.m., Wayne Lowery, 46, busted through a basement entrance at 465 Port Richmond Ave. and swiped $1,500 and seven laptop computers from a connected salon and deli, court papers state.

Then, on Aug. 25, he and an accomplice, Timothy Schroeder, 49, made off with an ATM from Piccolo Pino’s Pizzeria at 275 Port Richmond Ave. at 2:45 a.m., according to police.

The hoods used a hand truck to carry off the heavy score, cops said.

They were arrested Monday for burglary, grand larceny and criminal mischief.

Lowery has done three stints behind bars, for drugs and burglary, records show.

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