MANHATTAN
An off-duty cop arrested a teen who had threatened a man with a knife on a subway train on the Lower East Side, authorities said yesterday.
Ryan Dunbar, a rookie assigned to the Midtown South Precinct, was peering into the next car on a D train when he saw the teen point a knife toward a passenger’s neck Sunday afternoon, authorities said.
Dunbar tried to stop the attack by Emmanuel Alers, 19, but could not open the locked doors, according to police.
He alerted the conductor, who opened the doors and called cops to meet them at the Grand Street station.
Dunbar then apprehended Alers and held him until they reached the station.
Alers, a Brooklyn resident, was charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
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A man was arrested for attacking his girlfriend during an argument on a TriBeCa street, police said yesterday.
Daniel Dietrich, 46, allegedly punched the 47-year-old woman in the face and hit her with a shoe at Park Place near Church Street shortly before 2 a.m. last Wednesday.
Dietrich, who lives in Yonkers, was charged with assault.
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An ex-con turned himself in to police after he forced a woman into a car and raped her, police said yesterday.
Erick Mourino, 43, allegedly grabbed the 26-year-old woman as she was walking into her East Harlem building on Feb. 21 at 4 a.m. and pushed her into the nearby car.
He then held a knife to her neck and raped her, authorities said.
Mourino, who lives in East Harlem, also took her leather jacket, where she had her keys and cellphone, police said.
The suspect, who served 11 years in prison for a 1988 robbery, gave himself up last Wednesday and was charged with rape, robbery and sexual abuse.
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A man, apparently upset about a fight with a fellow bar employee, was killed by a subway train in Greenwich Village yesterday after he ran onto the tracks, a source said.
The 30-year-old man had hit on a waitress who wanted nothing to do with him, the source said.
He stormed out of the bar, entered the Christopher Street station, jumped off the platform and ran into the tunnel, according to the source.
The man, whose name was not released, was hit by a northbound No. 2 train at 12:35 a.m.
Train service was disrupted for about an hour.
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The body of a man was found floating in the East River near the Manhattan Bridge yesterday.
The 43-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was found off Pike Street at 12:30 p.m.
The Medical Examiner’s Office will perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
STATEN ISLAND
A young man was busted for selling crack in Tompkinsville, investigators said yesterday.
Police noticed Dante Mangin, 23, pass a bag filled with the drug to a man riding a bike at Hannah and Bay streets Sunday evening, authorities said.
The customer fled, but cops caught Mangin and found 25 bags of crack and two solid crack rocks, they said.
He was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
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A Fox Hills man allegedly carjacked a taxi after he crashed his own vehicle in an attempt to escape police after selling marijuana to an undercover cop.
William Crabbe, 30, sold the cop about $40 worth of pot at Targee Street near Vanderbilt Avenue Saturday afternoon, sources said.
After the undercover identified himself, Crabbe took off in a 1990 Lexus and crashed into a fire hydrant, according to the sources.
He then ran toward the taxi, punched the driver and forced him out of the car, cops said.
Shortly afterward, Crabbe crashed the 2001 Crown Victoria into a utility pole and a parked SUV.
He was charged with robbery, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and leaving the scene of an accident, according to the DA’s spokesman.
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Two men were arrested in their Huguenot Beach home after cops executed a search warrant and found guns and ammunition, authorities said yesterday.
Frank Voto and Randall Hafele, both 56, were busted shortly after midnight Saturday in the Cornelia Avenue house and charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
BROOKLYN
Police arrested a man for striking two cops and a bystander after the officers gave him a parking ticket in East New York.
Antonio Melendez, 31, cursed at the two officers who gave him a summons for double-parking his car at Pitkin Avenue and Bradford Street at 3:20 a.m. Saturday, police said.
A man who heard Melendez shouting tried telling him that the cops were only doing their job. The thug then turned to the pedestrian and repeatedly punched him in the face, authorities said.
The cops pulled him away from the victim, but Melendez allegedly fought with them as well.
He was charged with assault, menacing, harassment and resisting arrest.
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Cops arrested two people in a Cypress Hills home after they allegedly hit one another with a bat and cellphone.
Jason Carrion, 29, and Olgy Santiago, 30, argued Sunday morning at the house on Fulton Street, sources said.
Santiago allegedly threw a cellphone at Carrion, striking him in the forehead. Carrion retaliated by hitting Santiago in the forehead with a baseball bat, authorities said.
Both refused medical attention and were charged with assault, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon.
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Two men were shot, one fatally, during an argument at a High Bridge street corner yesterday, police said. Rudy Urena, 19, died of a gunshot wound to the chest and an unidentified 22-year-old man was shot in the back at E. 168th Street and Grandview Plaza. Several men were seen fleeing from the scene.
