NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Staten Island
A drunken motorist was arrested after police spotted him swerving into oncoming traffic in New Brighton, authorities said yesterday.
Guy Sweeney, 48, was driving along Forest Avenue near Victory Boulevard at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday when cops observed his Chevy Lumina crossing over the double yellow line and pulled him over, police said.
Noticing that Sweeney reeked of booze, cops gave him a Breathalyzer test that found his blood-alcohol level was three times above the legal limit, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Manhattan
Three smash-and-grab thugs hit a Fifth Avenue jewelry store and escaped with two Patek Philippe watches worth $130,000 from a display case, cops said yesterday.
After browsing for an hour Tuesday at the Aaron Faber Gallery on Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street, the thugs walked over to the front display case at 5:25 p.m., sources said.
One of the robbers, wearing a black hoodie and a red baseball cap, brazenly took out a black hammer and smashed the case, grabbing two of the exclusive Swiss watches — one worth $32,000 and the other $98,000, said police.
The trio fled in a green Chevrolet TrailBlazer, cops said.
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A pack of thugs beat and robbed an alleged snitch, authorities said yesterday.
Abdul Garcia, 21, and about nine accomplices punched and kicked the man at Avenue D and East Sixth Street at 11:20 p.m. on March 15, sources said.
They snatched the man’s gold chain and Garcia slashed his arm, the sources said.
The group fled, but Garcia was caught Sunday, police said.
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Police used fingerprints to track down a homeless man who robbed a lower Manhattan bodega, authorities said yesterday.
Clayton Isaac, 39, picked up a coffee pot and poured himself a cup in the bodega at Church Street and Park Place at 9:20 a.m. on Feb. 17, sources said.
He then went behind the counter, shoved a worker and shouted, “I have a gun! I’ll kill you!” the sources said.
Isaac took $500 from the register, cops said.
Police lifted his prints from the coffee pot and matched them to those on file from previous arrests. Isaac was picked up Sunday.
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A burglar had an easy time entering an apartment on the Upper East Side and swiping electronic equipment, police said yesterday.
He apparently climbed through an unlocked window to enter the apartment on East 81st Street near Second Avenue at 9 a.m. Monday.
He took a laptop computer and two cameras. The tenant, a 30-year-old woman, discovered the theft when she returned home from work.
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A thief stole $3,500 in gold jewelry along with personal items from a Flatiron District antique store, police sources said yesterday.
The crook broke into Antique Collections Inc. at West 25th Street near Sixth Avenue at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, police said.
He helped himself to the jewelry and unspecified other property, cops said.
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A woman on her way to voice lessons was groped by a pervert in Midtown, police sources said yesterday.
The 32-year-old victim, who lives on the Upper West Side, was accosted by the unidentified man at Eighth Avenue near West 48th Street at 4 p.m. on March 25, cops said.
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A body was plucked from the Hudson near Chelsea Piers early yesterday, police said.
The body of the unidentified man was found floating off West 21st Street at 1:45 a.m. after police received a call of a person in the water.
Bronx
A man was found shot to death in Kingsbridge, police said yesterday.
The 23-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was discovered with a torso wound at Kingsbridge and Bailey avenues after cops received a 911 call at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Queens
A man was arrested for attacking a foe in Cambria Heights, police said yesterday.
For unknown reasons, Girard Williams, 39, repeatedly punched the 21-year-old victim at 115th Road and 231st Street at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, cops said.
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Federal agents busted two men in Flushing yesterday for allegedly running a major illegal-butts operation
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives conducted a sting that nabbed father-and-son cigarette dealers Guang Ming Wang and Feishan Wang as they attempted to buy what they thought were 12,000 cartons of untaxed cigarettes.
They intended to sell them on the black market, authorities said.

