New York Post

NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER

- Matthew McNulty

Brooklyn

Two teens stole a man’s cellphone at a Park Slope subway station before throwing it onto the tracks when the victim chased after them, police said.

Cops say one of the teens held the train door on the Manhattanb­ound F train at Seventh Avenue on Dec. 22 while the second teen grabbed a Samsung Note cellphone out of a 36yearold man’s hands.

Both teens fled the train, and cops say one of the suspects tossed the victim’s phone onto the track bed as he chased them out of the station.

Cops say the teens got away before they arrived.

Police describe both teens (insets) as about 16 years old and about 5foot7. One of the them was sporting an Afro.

No arrests have been made, according to police.

Police are asking for the public’s help identifyin­g three suspects in the fatal shooting of a 15yearold boy in Flatlands.

Isiah Joseph was killed and a 20yearold was wounded when bullets flew during a gangrelate­d gunfight on the corner of Avenue H and East 56th Street on Sunday at about 1:15 p.m., police said.

Both victims were rushed to Brookdale Hospital. Joseph died from a bullet wound to the back and the older victim was in stable condition, cops said.

Nearby video surveillan­ce caught three men (above) running from the scene.

A Brooklyn man was pronounced dead last Wednesday four days after being shot in East New York, police said.

Christian Lecler, 20, was shot in the arm and thigh in front of 2598 Fulton St. on Jan. 3 shortly before 8 p.m., according to police.

Authoritie­s say Lecler was rushed to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition, where he later died.

Manhattan

A Papa John’s pizzeria was held up by two masked gunmen in Midtown, cops said.

“Get on the floor, don’t do anything stupid,” one of the gunmen said at the East 37th Street pizza joint near Madison Avenue on Dec. 31 at about 12:45 a.m., according to sources

Two employees complied and opened the register, sources said.

A gunman then led one of the victims to a rear door and asked him to enter an access code for the back room, sources said.

When the victim did not know the code, the robbers cleaned out the employees’ pockets and left with approximat­ely $1,000 in cash, sources said.

Cops said one of the suspects, described as 5foot6, was last seen wearing blue jeans, red sneakers and a blue overcoat.

The other suspect is about 5foot10, and was last seen wearing blue jeans with a green overcoat.

Queens

Cops are looking for a woman wanted for stealing a St. Albans woman’s mail containing her driver’s license and taxrefund check.

The suspect (inset) took the 40yearold woman’s mail from her 142nd Street mailbox on Oct. 21, 2014, before using the victim’s newly mailed New York State driver’s license to cash her refund check at a PayOMatic in Brooklyn, cops said.

A police source said the check was worth $1,531.

Staten Island

A thief was busted after he was caught stealing a safe from the Charleston home of a friend, according to a criminal complaint.

A witness allegedly observed Michael Dinaso, 38, exiting the house on Meade Loop at about 1:40 p.m. on Jan. 3 with a safe in a red bag on his shoulder and called the homeowner’s brother, lawenforce­ment sources said.

Dinaso was found a block away with the bag and con fessed committing the burglary to police while saying he had been “friends” with the victim for “over 20 years,” the complaint states.

He was charged with burglary, criminal mischief, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to the complaint.

A Dongan Hills man drunkenly backed into a parked ambulance twice, lawenforce­ment sources said.

Peter Merlo, 43, got behind the wheel of his 2008 Nissan at about 5 a.m. on Jan. 5 on Wilson Street near Newberry Street and went into reverse, cops said.

He was seen by witnesses smashing into the unoccupied ambulance twice before police arrived, sources said.

Merlo had a blood alcohol level of .166, well above the .08 legal limit, and was charged with driving while intoxicate­d, cops said.

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