NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN
* Two thugs attacked a livery driver in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said yesterday.
The attack took place at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday when the 39-year-old driver picked up Fainclai Williams, 25, and Monique Allen, 33, near Fulton Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard, sources said.
As they drove to an undisclosed location, Williams began yelling about the fare.
When the vehicle stopped at a light, Williams got out, spit at the driver through a window and struck him in the face, cops said.
Williams then allegedly yanked the driver out of the car and kicked and punched him.
Allen also allegedly attacked the victim, who suffered minor injuries.
Police nabbed the pair, who were charged with assault and other crimes.
* A man is his 20s was found dead in Cypress Hills, apparently killed by a fall from an 18-story building, police said. His body was discovered in front of 735 Lincoln Avenue at 10:37 a.m. yesterday. It was not immediately clear whether the man jumped, fell or was pushed. (lcf)
* A Bushwick man clubbed his building superintendent whom he accused of turning off his heat and slashing his bicycle tires, authorities said yesterday.
Sources said Neil Collins, 40, fought with the 29-year-old super in the hallway of their Kosciuszko Street building near Broadway at 10:10 a.m. Tuesday.
Collins screamed at and threatened the super, then whacked him in the shoulder and back with a bat.
A spokesman for DA Charles Hynes said Collins was charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession. The super suffered minor injuries.
* A man smashed his business partner in the head with a pipe at a Bensonhurst construction site, authorities said yesterday.
Ioannis Pasiakos, 57, began arguing with the 29-year-old partner on 78th Street near 20th Avenue at 2:35 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The dispute involved Pasiakos’ claim that the victim had no right to authorize construction assignments without him.
Pasiakos ordered the work stopped, but the younger man told hardhats to continue, sources said.
Pasiakos then allegedly struck the victim with a metal pipe.
Cops charged Pasiakos with assault, menacing and weapons possession.
MANHATTAN
* Police are asking for the public’s help finding a woman in poor physical and mental condition who disappeared from her Upper West Side apartment.
Yesenia Rivera (above), 26, wearing a red shirt and black pants, was last seen leaving her Riverside Drive apartment at West 102nd Street at around 1:20 p.m. on Sept. 23, cops said.
Police said she is in need of medication.
* The body of an unidentified man was found floating in the East River near the Queensboro Bridge just after 7 p.m. yesterday. The cause of death was not immediately apparent.
QUEENS
* A driver was critically injured and his passenger killed early yesterday when their car slammed into a guardrail and flipped over on the Grand Central Parkway in Forest Hills.
The dead man was identified as Nathaniel Jermaine, 31, of Malverne, L.I. The driver’s name was withheld. The accident took place at 4 a.m. near the Queens Boulevard exit.
* The NYPD is searching for a wig-wearing bandit who has allegedly robbed four banks this month.
The robber first struck Oct. 3 at 9 a.m. in the North Fork branch on Lefferts Boulevard near Liberty Avenue, where he demanded cash from a teller and fled with money.
Then, on Oct. 7, he wore a brown or black wig and walked into a Bank of New York branch near the North Fork branch. He again demanded cash and ran with his loot.
The thief allegedly robbed two more banks, last Thursday and this past Monday, on Cross Bay and Queens boulevards.
STATEN ISLAND
* A driver speeding along the Staten Island Expressway was killed after he lost control of his Cadillac Escalade SUV and it overturned on the center median at 9 p.m. The 40-year-old victim, whose name was withheld, was trapped in the wreckage and died at St. Vincent’s Hospital. (lcf)
* Police busted a teenager for stealing electrical equipment after he was caught breaking into a garage in Westerleigh, authorities said yesterday.
Bobby Hambrick, 16, entered the garage of a private home on Benedict Avenue at around 4:10 a.m. Tuesday but was spotted by a neighbor who called cops.
Police found in Hambrick’s possession a Palm handheld digital device and a cellphone he had allegedly stolen elsewhere.
Hambrick was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and possession of stolen property, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
* A Rikers Island inmate jailed for stealing laptop computers from a medical practice has been linked to a second theft at the same West Brighton office, authorities said yesterday.
Thomas Davis, 33, was caught on security tape hauling five laptops and two carrying cases out the back door of the HIP Staten Island Medical Group on Clove Road at 7:19 p.m. on Aug. 15, sources said.
He was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, said DA Donovan’s spokesman.
Davis had been incarcerated for allegedly stealing laptops from the same office on Aug. 22.


