NYPD DAILY CRIME BLOTTER
The Bronx
The thug who beat and robbed a woman in the elevator of her Mott Haven building is also wanted in at least two other robberies, police said.
Gilrael Ruperto, 26, was seen on surveillance following a 72yearold woman into the elevator of her East 137th Street building on Nov. 17 at about 9:45 p.m., cops said.
When the elevator doors opened, Ruperto sprayed her in the face with an unknown substance, knocked her to the ground and stole her purse, police said.
Police later learned that Ruperto allegedly had robbed at least two other women, sources said.
In the first robbery, the mugger held a knife to a 68yearold woman’s throat on the thirdfloor landing of a building on East 156th Street on Nov. 8, cops said.
The robber took her bag, which contained $500.
On Nov. 15, a 64yearold woman was beaten and robbed in the elevator of a building on East 153rd Street, police said.
The mugger sprayed the woman in the face with a mysterious substance before striking her numerous times, police said.
He ran off with her purse, which contained $50 and a cellphone.
Ruperto is about 5feet tall and has a barcode tattoo on the back of his neck.
An armed robber knocked over a Foxhurst gas station, cops said.
The suspect (above) pointed a gun at a clerk at the Eagle Gas Station on Boston Road near East 173rd Street at about 8:15 p.m. Saturday and demanded money, police said.
The employee forked over about $300 in cash, and the suspect fled.
A gunman fired four shots at an Allerton bank building, cops said.
The suspect (above) is seen on video surveillance running up to the Hudson Valley Bank on Allerton Avenue near Williamsbridge Road on Friday at about 5 p.m. and squeezing off shots that hit the bank and a parked Volvo, police said.
No one was injured in the shooting, cops said.
An offduty NYPD traffic agent was arrested after smashing her exboyfriend’s car with a baseball bat in Claremont Village, authorities said.
Terrise Grayson, 39, began arguing with her ex when he dropped off their child at her home shortly before midnight Sunday, police said.
Grayson went into her house, emerged with a bat and began bashing his car, cops said.
She was charged with criminal mischief.
Brooklyn
A man who was shot during a suspected robbery in East Flatbush has died, police sources said.
JeanClaude Bernagene, 51, was shot several times in the chest, right wrist and right knee Friday at about 5:40 p.m. in the front yard of a home on New York Avenue, cops said.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died Sunday.
It is not clear if anything had been stolen during the shooting, but police believe someone may have tried to rob the location, which was housing an illegal gambling operation, sources said.
No arrests have been made.
Manhattan
Two drug dealers have been charged in a deadly shooting near Penn Station earlier this month, authorities said.
Gunman Francisco Alsina, 23, was charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder, while his accomplice, Vincent Arcona, 27, was charged with evidence tampering and drug possession, authorities said.
Arcona walked up to three men having coffee inside a McDonald’s on Eighth Avenue near West 35th Street on Nov. 9 at about 6 a.m., and told them they were not welcome on his crew’s drugdealing turf, cops said.
When the victims walked into the subway station at Eighth and 35th, Alsina opened fire, killing one man and wounding the other two, police said.
Arcona was captured days later when he walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital seeking medical attention and was recognized by doctors there, cops said.
Alsina was caught in Rhode Island a short time later after police tracked his cellphone, police said.
A man fired a gun in the air several times in Marble Hill, authorities said.
The shooter squeezed off several rounds at Broadway and 225th Street on Saturday at about 9:15 p.m. before running away, cops said.
No one was injured and no property sustained damage, police said.
The suspect was last seen wearing a darkcolored, hooded sweatshirt with a white Adidas logo on the front.