NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan
* Cops said a man robbed a Greenwich Village bank Friday.
The man walked inside the Chase branch on University Place near East Ninth Street at 12:25 p.m., and slipped a note demanding money to a teller, police said.
He fled with an unspecified amount of cash.
Staten Island
* A Greenridge man was caught with a loaded .32-caliber gun and more than 5,000 “ecstasy” pills after he sold drugs to undercover cops, authorities said yesterday.
Police grabbed Steven Bagnoli, 26, who had a firearm in his waistband, at Amboy Road and Station Avenue in Pleasant Plains at about 4:10 p.m. Friday, cops said.
Police then went to Bagnoli’s residence on Token Street where they reported finding the pills.
Bagnoli allegedly sold crystal methamphetamine to undercover cops on several occasions between Jan. 26 and Oct. 19 last year.
Bagnoli was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and weapons possession, said a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
* A pervert was arrested and charged with exposing himself to a teenage girl after following her to her St. George home, authorities said.
Christopher Williams, 23, confronted his 14-year-old victim on the street at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, the sources said.
He allegedly pulled down his pants and made a rude remark.
Police busted Williams, who was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and public lewdness.
* A man who has several DWI convictions has been arrested again for drunken driving, authorities said.
Police stopped Warner Combs, 62, at Bard Avenue and Saint Austins Place in West Brighton at 3:48 p.m. Saturday.
Combs, who was released from jail in 2005 after serving a year on a felony DWI conviction, was charged with drunken driving.
Cops said they found two cans of Budweiser and a bottle of vodka in Combs’ vehicle.
Brooklyn
* A Gravesend man brutally beat and kicked a guest during a New Year’s house party, cops said yesterday.
David Castaldo, 26, and two others argued with the 21-year-old victim and a friend in Castaldo’s Kings Highway residence near West Ninth Street at around 12:30 a.m. Monday, cops said.
One of Castaldo’s pals allegedly forced the victim into the kitchen and another bashed him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
Castaldo joined in the assault, punching and kicking the victim and dragging him around the house, cops said.
Castaldo then allegedly smashed the victim with a champagne bottle.
The victim was rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where he received stitches.
Castaldo was busted on charges of assault, menacing and weapons possession, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Charles Hynes.
* A man peppered a cab driver with racial slurs and attacked his vehicle in Park Slope, authorities said yesterday.
James Hoff, 35, asked to be taken to Queens from Fourth Avenue and Union Street at about 5:10 a.m. Monday, the sources said.
When the driver, who is black, said he was off duty, Hoff went ballistic, calling him stupid and using racist epithets, cops said.
Hoff then allegedly spat in the driver’s face and kicked his car, denting the door frame and shattering the tail light.
An officer responding to an unrelated robbery saw the violence and collared Hoff on charges of criminal mischief, menacing and harassment.
The victim was not injured.
* A veteran FDNY lieutenant was arrested on drunken driving charges yesterday after he got into an accident in Bay Ridge, police said.
Sources said Stephen Gaudet, 44, whose alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, was driving on the Gowanus Expressway at 86th Street at about 3:25 a.m., when another driver cut him off, causing him to crash his 1998 Honda Accord.
Responding cops charged him with aggravated driving while intoxicated.
An FDNY spokesman said Gaudet is a 12-year veteran assigned to an engine company in Manhattan.
Queens
* A man who believed his girlfriend was cheating on him was arrested after he attacked her with a razor in their Corona apartment, authorities said.
William Flores, 34, accosted his 31-year-old gal pal as she was sleeping in their 34th Avenue apartment near 112th Street at about 8:10 a.m. on Monday, cops said.
Flores punched her in the face, then allegedly pulled a razor and slashed her neck, causing a laceration that required seven stitches, the sources said.
The victim called 911, and Flores was arrested on charges of assault, weapons possession and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for District Attorney Richard Brown.


