NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
* Police are asking for the public’s assistance in identifying and finding a robber who struck a Hamilton Heights bank yesterday morning.
The suspect (above) walked into the Chase branch at 3515 Broadway at 9:33 a.m. and slipped a teller a note demanding cash, police said.
After the bank employee forked over some cash, the robber fled. He is a Hispanic man in his 30s who is 5-foot-7, 170 pounds and has salt-and-pepper hair.
* A Brooklyn man who drove off after his SUV struck and killed an elderly New Jersey man on the Upper West Side on Saturday morning surrendered to police last night, accompanied by his lawyer, authorities said.
Police said Daniel Ductan, 24, of Coney Island, hit George Barbagianni, 79, of Rochelle Park as he stepped off a sidewalk at 91st Street and Broadway about 9 a.m. on April 23.
Ductan was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated assault by an unlicensed operator. (lcf)
* A Harlem man was busted for shooting his sister’s ex-boyfriend in the neck during an argument, police sources said yesterday.
Jason Hernandez, 20, wounded his sister’s former flame in front of 2949 Frederick Douglass Blvd at 5:15 p.m. Sunday, the sources said.
The 23-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was arguing with his ex when Hernandez came by and shot him in the neck.
Cops recovered a 9 mm handgun from Hernandez’s apartment, the sources said. He is charged with attempted murder. The victim was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital.
BROOKLYN
* Police yesterday identified two men who were shot in a Bedford-Stuyvesant building Sunday.
Darrius Benjamin, 24, and Ramel O’Neal, 22, were gunned down in a fifth-floor hallway at 1851 Fulton St., in the Brevoort Houses, at 7 p.m.
According to authorities, Benjamin lived in the building, and cops recovered guns and drugs in his apartment.
* A New Jersey woman smashed her estranged husband in the face with an iron during a fight inside his Crown Heights apartment, authorities said yesterday.
Roseann Warner, 42, allegedly bashed her 45-year-old husband, Steve, in the head while brawling over their children inside his home on Sterling Place at 10 a.m. on Sunday.
According to law-enforcement sources, the Warners, who have three kids, had a tiff because Roseann left their youngest child, a 7-year-old, alone with their eldest child, a 19-year-old boy, while she attended a party.
That son had to jump between them to keep them apart after his parents became physical, sources said. After Roseann took an iron to Steve’s face, he allegedly punched her, law-enforcement sources said.
Cops who responded to a 911 call noticed that Roseann had a contusion on her face and Steve had facial bruises and lacerations. Both were arrested.
Roseann, of East Orange, N.J., is charged with assault, menacing, harassment and weapons possession. Steve is charged with assault, menacing and harassment.
* A 29-year-old cabdriver crashed his taxi in East Williamsburg after an unruly passenger attacked him, authorities said yesterday.
Kevin Model, 40, turned on the driver as the cab headed along Meeker Avenue near McGuinness Boulevard South at 3:35 a.m. Sunday, law-enforcement sources said.
According to authorities, Model hailed the taxi on Franklin Street in Manhattan before he began behaving bizarrely, threatening and yelling at the cabby and reaching through the partition to punch him.
In a bid to ward off Model’s alleged attack, the driver drove his cab into a streetlight, causing more than $1,500 in damage.
Model – who was arrested at the scene – is charged with attempted assault, menacing, harassment, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and marijuana possession.
QUEENS
* Police are looking for a vandal who scrawled anti-Semitic symbols and words on the walls inside a Flushing building, authorities said yesterday.
The offensive graffiti was found by a resident of the Jewel Avenue building at 7:45 a.m. Sunday.
Authorities believe the three swastikas and anti-Jewish remarks, which were in the building’s lobby, in an elevator and on the sixth floor, were scrawled between 11:30 p.m. Saturday and the time they were discovered.
THE BRONX
* A 35-year-old man was stabbed several times by an acquaintance on a Soundview street, police sources said yesterday.
The victim, whose name was not released, was knifed at the corner of Evergreen and Story avenues at 9 p.m. Sunday.
If was not immediately clear what the two men were fighting over or what caused the 23-year-old suspect to stab the victim in the left hand, left rear torso, left front abdomen, left thigh and hands.
He was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. The assailant remains at large.
STATEN ISLAND
* A 35-year-old man was caught trying to swipe a rug from a department store in the Staten Island Mall, authorities said yesterday.
Molina Fidela allegedly attempted to steal the rug from the Sears store at 5:15 p.m. on Sunday.
A security guard spotted him as he tried to walk out with the pilfered rug, law-enforcement sources said.
Fidela is charged with petit larceny and possession of stolen property.
* A 55-year-old man was arrested after he stabbed his wife in the arm in their Westerleigh home yesterday, authorities said.
Adolph Jayman allegedly attacked his spouse in the home on Constant Ave at 2 a.m.
Circumstances surrounding the incident were not immediately clear.
Jayman is charged with assault and harassment.
* An angry woman took a bite out of her boyfriend’s arm in Grant City, authorities said yesterday.
Erica Lopez, 28, allegedly chomped on her beau’s left arm and scratched him on Jefferson Avenue at 3:20 p.m. Sunday. It is not clear what prompted the alleged attack. Lopez is charged with assault, attempted assault and harassment.


