NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
* Police are seeking two men responsible for several gunpoint robberies of pedestrians in the Gramercy Park area – and several robberies later that day in Forest Hills, Queens.
Police said the two robbed at least six people by sneaking up on them, flashing a gun and demanding cash before fleeing in a white Chevy van.
The first robbery took place Monday at 4 a.m. near 16th Street and Union Square West, when one of the suspects put a silver semi-automatic handgun in the face of a 58-year-old man while his accomplice rifled through the victim’s pockets and made off with his wallet.
About 20 minutes later, the pair used the same set-up on a 38-year-old man near 25 W. 18th St.
About three hours later, near South Greenway Road in Queens, they robbed a 54-year-old man. Only 3 minutes later, they approached a 75-year-old man at Bow Street and 71st Avenue and stole his wallet and jewelry – and then robbed a 24-year-old man who happened upon the stick-up.
One of the suspects was taped by a nearby surveillance camera during one of the robberies, but police said victims described both men as about 25 years old, 6 feet tall with light brown or red hair.
THE BRONX
* Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating two girls who disappeared leaving their Morris Heights apartment.
Police said the sisters-in-law, Christina Salgado (above), 12, and Myran Flores, 23, left their apartment at 125 Marcy Place last Saturday at 7 p.m. to go to a store, and never returned home.
“It’s unusual that they have been missing, but we have no suspicion of foul play yet,” a police spokesman said.
Christina was described as about 5-foot-2, 130 pounds, with brown hair and eyes and a birth mark on her neck. She was last seen wearing a beige jacket, blue jeans, a black belt and yellow boots.
Myran was described as about 5-foot-2, 120 pounds, with brown eyes and hair.
BROOKLYN
* A bank teller was caught allegedly handing out $6,000 to two friends who posed as customers at a Mill Basin bank where he worked.
Charles Zamian, 22, allegedly made two separate $3,000 withdrawals from the JP Morgan Chase branch at 1987 Flatbush Ave. and gave the cash to his friends, who police said yesterday weren’t even bank customers.
Authorities said Zamian was caught on bank surveillance cameras making the withdrawals for the two female accomplices who used fake checks to get the cash.
Special Frauds Squad detectives charged Zamian at his Brooklyn Heights apartment Thursday with third-degree grand larceny.
* A Sheepshead Bay man was arrested yesterday for lying to cops about a self-inflicted gunshot wound that led them on a brief hunt for the person he said shot him, police said.
Police eventually realized that Charles Tabona, 21, of Avenue X in Gravesend, shot himself yesterday at 6 p.m., and told cops a wild story about being the victim of an intruder when they responded to a call of shots fired at an Avenue W apartment.
Police who interviewed Tabona at Kings County Hospital were quickly able to surmise that he had shot himself in the leg and was lying to avoid illegal-gun charges.
He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, as well as reckless endangerment and filing a false police report.
QUEENS
* A Bayside woman who drove her bleeding and unconscious husband to an emergency room yesterday was arrested – for allegedly stabbing him during an earlier dispute.
Police said Erica Sininsky, 27, was arrested in the North Shore General Hospital emergency room at about 6 a.m. after she brought her husband in for treatment of a severe stab wound in the stomach.
Nurses at the hospital called police when the 40-year-old man arrived, and detectives later learned Sininsky and her husband had been fighting for hours at their 215th Place apartment, where she allegedly plunged a kitchen knife into his stomach.
Sininsky was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Cops said her husband was in stable condition after surgery to close his wound.
* A recruit from the New York Police Academy was arrested yesterday after she was caught with drugs, police said.
Yahaira Castillo was arrested inside her Queens home with an unspecified type and amount of narcotics, police said.
Castillo’s case was referred to the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau. (lcf)
STATEN ISLAND
* A New Jersey woman was arrested yesterday for allegedly swindling $300,000 out of the coffers of a condominium development where she was once an official, police said.
Patricia Messana, 61, of Perth Amboy, former president of the Woodmont Homeowners Association in Graniteville, allegedly pilfered the cash from January 2002 until she was fired in October 2004.
She was suspected of taking checks from the association, making them payable to cash, and depositing them in her own account, police said.
The association’s board of directors discovered the fraudulent expenses when the books didn’t add up and Messana was unable to provide information that any project bills had been paid.
A police investigation revealed hundreds of individual checks ranging between $100 to $5,000 payable to Messana on the association checkbooks.
Messana surrendered to police yesterday morning and was charged with second-degree larceny.
* A store security guard nabbed a teenager who allegedly walked out of a Richmond Hill department store with stolen jewelry tucked inside his hat, police said yesterday.
Martin Oviedo, 16, was caught as he allegedly tried to walk out of Macy’s yesterday with five pairs of gold earrings stuffed inside his black knit cap.
Oviedo was stopped at about 3 p.m. Thursday, and held by security guards until police arrived. He was charged with petit larceny.

