NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
The Bronx
Police detectives are hunting for a gunman who opened fire on two men in a car in University Heights.
Derrick Miller allegedly fired three bullets from a 9mm semiautomatic at Derlin Sanz, 27, and Fernando Sanz, 25, who were in a vehicle on Sedgwick Avenue near West Burnside Avenue at 4: 55 a. m. Sunday, police sources said.
Miller then ran away, leaving behind shell casings and a cartridge, the sources allege.
The victims were not harmed, police said.
Three teens have been charged with shooting a woman on a street in Tremont, police sources said.
Dejone Pannell, 18, Aisha Marshall, 18, and Jauan Blume, 17, were charged with attempted murder for allegedly shooting Alenjanzra Salazar, 25, once in the chest on Lafontaine Avenue near East 178th Street at approximately 3: 15 a. m. Monday, the sources said.
Salazar was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.
A hoodieclad tough with a handgun knocked over an Eastchester gas station, police said Wednesday.
The suspect ( pictured above) barged into the BP service station on Conner Street near Hollers Avenue at about 2: 45 p. m. Monday and ordered the cashier to empty the contents of the register into a bag, according to police.
Under gunpoint, the clerk piled stacks of cash into the bag and tossed it back to the thug, surveillance video shows.
No injuries were reported.
Manhattan
A drug user is fighting for his life after he leaped out of a window at the Times Square Hotel, police sources said Wednesday.
Nicholaus Morris, 23, alleged to be a crystalmeth smoker, was hanging out with a 26yearold pal in a hotel room on West 43rd Street at about 1 a. m. Monday when he excused himself, went into the bathroom and jumped, the sources said.
Morris crashed down on the firstfloor mezzanine landing, the sources said.
He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in critical condition.
The hotel floor from which he jumped wasn’t immediately known.
Three violent thieves were busted for robbing two taxi drivers on the East Side, police sources said.
Leonardo Garcia, Peter Rodriguez, and a third, unidentified person first struck at 8: 30 p. m. Sunday, when they set upon a taxi driver during a heated argument at East 53rd Street and Madison Avenue, the sources said.
The three allegedly pummeled the driver while snatching his cellphone from the cab, they said.
After they ran off, they soon allegedly carried out a similar theft on the Upper East Side, the sources said.
During the second robbery, patrol officers from the 19th Precinct spotted the threesome and slapped cuffs on them.
Queens
A guntoting thief stole a man’s car in South Ozone Park after robbing him of cash and lottery tickets, police sources said Wednesday.
The crook pulled a gun on the 48yearold victim who was climbing out of his car on 133rd Street at about 3: 10 a. m. Monday, the sources said.
He patted down the victim and removed $ 200 in cash and $ 90 in lottery tickets, the sources said.
The gunman then jumped into the victim’s car and sped off, only to crash into a parked vehicle a block away, the sources said.
By the time police arrived, the suspect had fled.
A burglar stole thousands of dollars in cash and lottery tickets from an Ozone Park deli, authorities said Wednesday.
While a partner acted as a lookout, the breakin artist forced his way into the New Century Supermarket on Liberty Avenue near 89th Street at about 8: 45 p. m. on June 2, cops said.
The prowler pocketed about $ 8,000 in cash and scratchoff tickets and then fled with his accomplice, police said.
Staten Island
A driver fleeing a police stop in Clifton slammed his car into two cops, authorities said Wednesday.
Officers pulled over a latemodel Nissan Altima on Coursen Place at 1 a. m. Tuesday after witnessing the driver blow through a red light at Vanderbilt and Osgood avenues, police said.
When the cops got out of their car, the suspect threw his car in reverse, rammed into them and peeled out, authorities said.
One of the cops was hit on the right knee and his partner was clipped on the right hip.
Both were treated at an area hospital and released.
Brooklyn
A burglar broke into a thirdfloor Clinton Hill apartment by pushing in a window air conditioner after climbing down a fire escape from the roof, authorities said.
The crook made off with an iPad Mini and a speaker from the home on St. James Place at 6: 25 p. m. on June 2, authorities said.
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