NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
The Bronx
His plan was all wet. A man (above) tried to rob a Foxhurst Laundromat, but fled emptyhanded when an intrepid worker resisted, police said.
The robber walked into L&P Laundry on Southern Boulevard near Freeman Street just after 2 p.m. last Monday, claimed he had a gun and demanded money from a female employee, cops said.
The 32yearold worker called the would be bandit’s bluff, refusing to hand over a dime, police said.
The suspect is believed to be about 5foot10 and 220 pounds.
Police have released videos and a pic (above) of a hitandrun in Soundview.
The victim, 46, was standing in the middle of the street at Westchester Avenue and White Plains Road Thursday at 6:15 p.m. when a white van sideswiped him, the video reveals.
The man suffered a head injury and was treated at Jacobi Medical Center.
The accident caused damage to the driverside mirror, cops added.
A gunman targeted a 24yearold man in Morrisania, police said.
The victim was at Home Street and Prospect Place at 5:50 a.m. Saturday when he got shot in the left arm and left leg, cops said.
Police have not identified the shooter.
The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment of nonlifethreatening wounds.
Police have identified the man who died in a freak constructionsite accident in University Heights.
Edraz Lopez, 46, of Queens, was somehow sucked into the spinning driveshaft of a concrete-mixing truck at approximatedly 1:20 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
Queens
Two female crooks (above) teamed up to rob a woman in Astoria, authorities said.
The 44yearold victim was walking along 44th Street near Newtown Road at noon on Dec. 2 when the duo ran up from behind and threw her to the ground, according to cops.
The thieves grabbed the woman’s purse containing credit cards and keys.
The victim was treated at Elmhurst Hospital for cuts to the head sustained when she hit the pavement.
Investigators released surveillance images of duo.
A 30yearold man was shot dead near a Baptist church in Far Rockaway early Saturday, cops said.
The victim, identified by police as Kayvon Moore, was at Redfern and Name oke avenues near the First Baptist Church — also home to a community and educational center — when he was shot in the chest, authorities said.
EMTs rushed Moore to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival.
An inebriated offduty sanitation worker was caught driving the wrong way down a oneway street in East Elmhurst, cops said.
Jason Vasquez, 41, was spotted by police in a gray 2003 Lexus driving north on southbound 92nd Street at 32nd Avenue at about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, police said.
Cops pulled him over and found him with slurred speech and watery eyes, police said.
He failed an onscene Breathalyzer, police said.
Vasquez — who police sources said was busted in 1995 for drunken driving— was charged with driving in the wrong direction and DWI, cops said.