NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX
* Detectives yesterday identified Tyrone Felton (above) as the man police are looking for in the robberies of 11 elderly people in Parkchester since August. Felton, 25, whose last known address is 1480 Washington Ave., sometimes poses as a Good Samaritan by helping to carry groceries or doing other chores, cops said. Then he allegedly follows his victims off elevators and robs them, police said. In addition to his foot-long jagged-edged knife, Felton has flashed a gun in eight of the incidents, cops said. The last time he struck was on March 25, when he robbed an 82-year-old woman, stabbed her son and sexually assaulted the son’s girlfriend, cops said. (lcf)
* A man wanted for a shooting in a beauty salon is expected to surrender to police today at the 41st Precinct station house in Longwood, authorities said. On April 14, the 27-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, walked into the salon at 1091 Southern Boulevard at around 3:30 p.m. and pulled a .45 caliber gun. He then shot Jose Ventura, 22, once in the torso before fleeing, sources said. Ventura was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition. The suspect was unhappy about Ventura dating an ex-girlfriend, a 23-year-old who works at the salon, said authorities.
* Authorities yesterday said they were investigating a possible link between two fatal shootings in Tremont and Morris Heights. On Monday, Dante Martine, 17, was hanging out with a group of Bloods gang members at around 10 p.m., when a dispute erupted at East 174th Street and Clay Avenue, authorities said. Someone drew a pistol and fired a shot, hitting Martine in the back of the head as he tried to run away. He was later pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. Cops are investigating whether Martine had ties to the Bloods. About two hours later, Martine’s roommate, Neorck Brown, 28, was shot dead in their apartment on Weeks Avenue.
QUEENS
* A note-passing thief robbed an East Elmhurst check-cashing store yesterday. The robber strolled into Sunrise Payroll at 94-21 Astoria Boulevard around 4:35 p.m. and passed an employee a note demanding cash. The worker complied and the thief fled with an undetermined amount of money in a gray Honda, police said. (lcf)
* Two white cousins were charged with trying to hit a black man with a metal pipe and attempting to run him down with their car after demanding to know what he was doing in Forest Hills, police said. Paul Catanzaro, 27, and Mario Catanzaro, 29, were charged with menacing, reckless endangerment and aggravated harassment in the incident, which took place at about 6 p.m. Tuesday. Cops said the 38-year-old victim was walking along 76th Road at 113th Street when the suspects drove up to him and asked, “What are you doing in the neighborhood?” The Catanzaros allegedly spewed racial insults at the man. One of the cousins then got out of the car and threatened the man with a metal pipe, cops said. The man fled into his brother’s nearby business. When he thought the suspects had gone, the man left, but was chased by the two in their car, police said. The vehicle mounted a sidewalk, but did not hit the man. Police were called to the scene and arrested the suspects.
BROOKLYN
* A Cypress Hills man is charged with following two young women into a car, robbing them both, and sexually assaulting one, police said yesterday. Gerald Harrison, 37, was arrested on Tuesday for the attack that occurred Saturday near Linden Boulevard in East New York, cops said. Authorities say the victims, one 19 and the other 20, were returning to their car when Harrison confronted them, forced them inside and made them drive to an unknown location, where he robbed them and sodomized one of the women. (lcf)
* A Brooklyn cop was suspended after being arrested for breaking a plate during an argument with his ex-girlfriend on Long Island, police said yesterday. On Tuesday, Joseph Campagnala, a 12-year veteran assigned to the 69th Precinct, was charged with criminal mischief around 3:30 p.m.
* An off-duty school safety agent was given a summons for leaving the scene of a car accident in Crown Heights, police said yesterday. On Tuesday, Lanette Vargas, assigned to the 84th Precinct, was driving on Bedford Avenue at Dean Street at around 10:30 p.m. when she collided with a vehicle, cops said. No one was injured.
MANHATTAN
* A matching fingerprint and surveillance video led to the capture of a bank robbery suspect on Tuesday, authorities said yesterday. Ron Capparelli, 31, was charged with robbery in the Feb. 26 heist at the North Fork branch at 2 Park Avenue. Police sources said Capparelli walked into the branch at around noon, simulated a gun by putting his hand in his pocket and passed a teller a note that stated: “This is a stickup. Give me 100s, 50s and 20s. Don’t give me anything that I have to come back for.” The teller forked over $601 in cash and pressed a silent alarm as Capparelli fled the bank, authorities said. Cops responded to the scene and watched surveillance video, catching Capparelli in the act, authorities said. They also matched his fingerprints with one lifted from the demand note, cops said. Police arrested Capparelli Tuesday at his West 168th Street apartment at around 1:30 a.m.

