NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
*** An off-duty sanitation worker was busted for drunken driving in Midtown, police said yesterday.
Paul Brown, 37, was arrested Thursday at the corner of 57th Street and First Avenue at 10:45 p.m., cops said.
A Sanitation Department spokesman said Brown, assigned to a Manhattan garage, has been with the agency for almost two years. He was suspended pending the outcome of his case.
*** Police are looking for a note-passing thief who held up a Harlem bank, authorities said yesterday.
The bandit walked into a Commerce branch on West 125th Street near Eighth Avenue just before 3 p.m. on Thursday and slipped a teller a demand note.
The bank employee handed over $2,000 and the suspect fled.
*** A crook made off with $3,000 in a Midtown bank robbery, police said yesterday.
The suspect strolled into a Wachovia branch on Madison Avenue at 54th Street at 4:40 p.m. Thursday, cops said.
He passed a note to a teller, who handed over $3,000. The bandit fled with the loot.
QUEENS
*** Police are investigating anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled in the vestibule of a Kew Gardens building.
A swastika was discovered scrawled in black marker on the wall inside a 76th Avenue building near 147th Street at 3:10 p.m. on Thursday, cops said.
Authorities are investigating the vandalism as a possible bias incident.
THE BRONX
*** Two teens were busted for beating another youth at a Pelham Bay park, police said yesterday.
Nick Ivezaj and Patrick Bellizzi, both 17, were arrested at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday – 24 hours after they allegedly attacked a 16-year-old boy in Colucci Park near Wilkinson Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway, cops said.
Ivezaj and Bellizzi allegedly demanded to know if the victim had maligned Albanians, yet punched him in the head when he said no, police sources said.
The youth suffered a cut on his right cheek. His two attackers are charged with assault.
STATEN ISLAND
*** In a case of “a salt” and “battery,” a Park Hill man was charged with attacking his girlfriend, authorities said.
Kevin Bellach, 33, allegedly hurled a salt shaker at the 31-year-old woman inside their home on Fletcher Street at 10:18 a.m. on Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.
Then he picked up a cellphone battery charger and threw it, causing a laceration.
It was not clear what sparked the attack.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Bellach was charged with assault, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon and harassment.
*** Two men were busted in Graniteville with a van stuffed with $4,000 worth of fireworks, authorities said yesterday.
Daniel Zic, 45, and Marc Sammis, 46, were arrested at the Victory Boulevard exit of the Staten Island Expressway at 9 p.m. on Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.
Authorities spotted Zic and Sammis loading fireworks into a van and found 15 boxes of fireworks – including bottle rockets, roman candles, sparklers, firecrackers and snaps, according to a Criminal Court complaint.
Both men are charged with unlawfully dealing with fireworks, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.
*** A man and his teen girlfriend were nabbed for smoking pot outside a Stapleton housing project, law-enforcement sources said.
Luis Jiminez, 21, and a 15-year-old girl whose name was withheld because of her age were arrested in front of a Hill Street building at 3:57 p.m. on Thursday, authorities said.
Cops saw Jiminez allegedly roll a joint, smoke it and pass it to the teen, and he also allegedly had 14 plastic bags of pot with him, law-enforcement sources said.
Jiminez is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of marijuana, the sources said.
The juvenile will be prosecuted by the Corporation Counsel because her case will be handled in Family Court.
BROOKLYN
*** A young boy was struck by a car when he wandered into traffic in Crown Heights yesterday afternoon, police said.
The 4-year-old child, whose name was not released, was taken to Kings County Hospital where he was listed in serious condition.
Police said the boy was apparently left unattended for a brief moment before being hit by a motorist just before 2 p.m. after wandering in front of 720 Empire Boulevard.
The motorist, who was not identified, was not being charged with any crime in what was being described as an accident.


