NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
Manhattan
A man pummeled a love rival for shacking up with the suspect’s girlfriend in an Upper East Side apartment, police sources said yesterday.
The suspect accosted the 39-year-old man on East 72nd Street near Park Avenue Friday morning and repeatedly punched him, the sources said.
The attacker, who is in his 40s, then screamed, “Stop f- – -ing my girlfriend!” and ran away.
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A pack of thugs brutally beat a 28-year-old man outside a trendy bar in the Meatpacking District, authorities said yesterday.
The five unidentified brawlers attacked the victim as he was leaving Brass Monkey on Little West 12th Street near 10th Avenue at 3:20 a.m. Saturday.
The victim, who had gotten into an earlier riff with the group, suffered a facial laceration, a broken nose and a shattered ankle.
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A burglar swiped $3,200 in cash plus a laptop from an Upper East Side restaurant, sources said.
The theft at Nargila Grill, on York Avenue at East 84th Street, occurred sometime between when a worker locked up the eatery at 11 p.m. on April 1 and the next morning.
There were no signs of forced entry, and the closed-circuit TV system had been disconnected, indicating a possible inside job, police sources said.
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The crook pictured above is wanted for swiping nearly $1,000 from a Chelsea bank, police said yesterday.
The 6-foot, 180-pound thief handed a demand note to a teller in the Sovereign Bank at Seventh Avenue and West 20th Street at around 2:10 p.m. Friday.
The teller promptly forked over the cash and the robber ran off.
He was last seen wearing a red baseball hat, gray hooded jacket and blue jeans.
Brooklyn
A Flatbush woman was picked up for walloping her boyfriend in the head with a beer bottle after he caught her in bed with another man, sources said.
The 47-year-old victim walked in on Carla Joseph, 43, and her new squeeze Sunday morning at the apartment on Nostrand Avenue and began arguing with her.
He called police and Joseph allegedly grabbed a bottle and smacked him in the face.
When cops arrived, they asked the victim if he was attacked with a bottle of Colt .45 malt liquor they found in the garbage.
As it turns out, it was actually a 22-ounce bottle of Budweiser.
Joseph was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon, the sources said.
Staten Island
A burglar was busted red-handed breaking into a Travis home, officials said yesterday.
A witness spotted Raul Tezanos, 20, pulling down the blinds in the home on Church Avenue near Victory Boulevard just after midnight Friday and called police.
Investigators allegedly found him with a screwdriver, a pair of pliers and a gravity knife, as well as 20 Xanax pills and pot.
He was charged with attempted burglary, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of marijuana, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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Three muggers were nabbed at an Arrochar bodega after they ripped the clerk’s pants clean off of his body, authorities said.
“Come out the store!” the thugs — William Gibbs, Nelva Cooke and Daunte Walker — yelled to the clerk at the store on Hylan Boulevard near Clove Road Friday evening, sources said.
They then rushed inside and yanked off the victim’s pants, which contained his cellphone, the sources said.
The thugs were nabbed a short time later and charged with robbery, according to the DA’s office.

