Daily Blotter
The Bronx
The suspect pictured above broke into a fried-chicken joint in Morris Heights and made off with more than $1,000, police said. He got into the Kennedy Fried Chicken on Featherbed Lane near Plimpton Avenue by pulling up the metal roll-down gate and entering through the unlocked front door at 4 a.m. Wednesday, cops said. Police said he was wearing a gray hooded sweat shirt, a white ski mask, a dark-colored jacket with multiple patches, blue jeans and white sneakers.
A thug slashed a man sitting in a car in Tremont, police said. The 28-year-old victim was in a parked 1999 Lexus on Lafontaine Avenue between East Tremont Avenue and East 178th Street at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday when the suspect slashed him on the head and ear, cops said. The suspect, described as 25 to 45 years old and 180 pounds, was last seen wearing a hooded sweat shirt, black hat, black jacket with gray sleeves, blue jeans and white shoes.
A Chinese-food deliveryman turned the tables on a knife-wielding mugger, slashing him on the arm, police said. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Jason Santana, came up, put a knife to the victim’s stomach and demanded money and the food the worker was carrying at Bryant Avenue and Jennings Street at 8:50 p.m. Thursday, cops said. But the deliveryman grabbed the knife and stabbed the crook in the right arm. Afterward, the bleeding suspect stumbled into Freeman Grocery on Freeman Street near Whitlock Avenue where cops caught up to him at about 9:15 p.m.
Santana was arrested on robbery charges, cops said.
Brooklyn
A mugger followed a 29-year-old woman into her Cobble Hill apartment building and robbed her, authorities said. He trailed the victim into the building at Hicks and Baltic streets at about
11 p.m. on April 1, grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth, police said. The thug then snatched the woman’s Head Porter bag containing her gold iPhone 6 and credit cards, and then fled, cops said. The victim was not harmed. Police released surveillance pictures of the suspect, who was last seen wearing black jeans, black shoes and a black, long-sleeved sweater.
Manhattan
Three crooks robbed three youngsters of their cellphones in Central Park, cops said. The victims, 10, 14, and 15, were walking in the North Woods section of the park near West Drive and Transverse Road at approximately 6:20 p.m. last Saturday when the suspects, whose images were captured on surveillance video, yelled out to them. When the unsuspecting boys stopped, the suspects approached and asked what they had in their pockets, investigators said. The band of thieves then fished through the victims’ pockets, grabbed their cellphones and ran. None of the victims was harmed, cops said.
Cops are searching for a brazen thief who snatched a straphanger’s cellphone on an A train in Midtown and took a selfie that automatically got uploaded to the victim’s iCloud account. On Tuesday at about 8:30 a.m., the suspect grabbed the phone from the victim’s hand, pushed him away and then hopped off the train at the 50th Street station, investigators said. The suspect, described as between 17 and 20 years old and between 6 feet and 6-foot-2, then used the stolen phone to take the selfie, which police investigators now possess.


