NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
* A 41-year-old man was in critical condition after he was shot four times in a drive-by shooting on a Harlem street, police said yesterday.
The man was strolling on West 119th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around 10 p.m. Monday when a vehicle pulled up alongside him and an occupant started firing, hitting him twice in the chest, once in the leg and once in the torso.
Five .380-caliber shell casings were found at the scene. The victim was at North Central Bronx Hospital.
* Police yesterday ID’d a dismembered body found stuffed in a suitcase on a Lower East Side street.
Police identified the murder victim as Yang Jun Zhan, 45.
A homeless man and woman discovered a black Travelstar suitcase on the corner of East Broadway and Forsythe Street at around 2 a.m. on June 30.
They lugged the suitcase several blocks to a parking lot opposite 100 Division St., where they opened it and found Zhan’s torso, two arms and two hands.
* Police said a man shot in the wrist Monday night on the Upper West Side was the innocent victim of an apparent drive-by shooting.
The victim, Cesar Soto, 36 of West 106th Street, was walking along Columbus Avenue near 89th Street when two men in a passing car opened fire at someone strolling near Soto.
Soto, who was hit in the left wrist, was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was treated and released. (s, lcf)
STATEN ISLAND
* A 20-year-old man has been arrested for selling crack cocaine to two women on a Fox Hills street, authorities said yesterday.
Jayquan Smith sold four bags of crack to Janette Resto in front of a Park Hill Avenue apartment building at 4:55 p.m., cops said.
About 20 minutes later, Smith sold seven bags of crack to Denise McCrimon at the same location.
An undercover cop spotted the transactions and arrested Smith on drug charges.
Resto and McCrimon were also arrested on separate charges.
* Two 31-year-old women pummeled a child and whacked her with a belt buckle at an undisclosed location on Staten Island, authorities said yesterday.
On July 14, Tabbatha Jackson and Tawanna Degroat repeatedly punched the girl in the head and body and hit her with the belt buckle, cops said.
They then scratched her face, neck and arms with their fingernails and kicked her.
The victim suffered lacerations and a bump to her head.
The Staten Island DA’s Office charged the suspects with assault, harassment, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.
QUEENS
* A 38-year-old woman apparently stabbed herself to death in her Richmond Hill apartment, authorities said yesterday.
The woman, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered with a chest wound in the living room of her home on 127th Street near 86th Avenue around 2 p.m. Monday.
THE BRONX
* A group of men threatened to shoot another man and yelled anti-Asian slurs at him on a University Heights street, cops said yesterday.
The apparent bias-related incident took place in front of the victim’s home on Marion Avenue around 1 p.m. Monday. The group fled. No injuries were reported.
* A parolee was arrested in Mott Haven after cops pulled him over and found cocaine and “ecstasy” in his car, authorities said yesterday.
Lebron Battle, 52, who spent 17 years in prison for attempted murder, was driving recklessly on East 141st Street and Willis Avenue around 7:30 p.m. Monday when three cops in an unmarked car spotted his Volvo and pulled him over.
When the officers approached his car, they noticed eight small bags of cocaine and 25 to 30 pills of “ecstasy” on an elbow rest near the driver-side door.
Battle was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
BROOKLYN
* A Flatbush teenager and her 2-year-old sister who disappeared from their home on Sunday have been found in good condition.
Tarsha Mason, 16, and sister Kendria Hamilton left their Crooke Avenue home to go shopping around 10 p.m. Sunday.
They were found at 1:30 p.m. yesterday at an undisclosed location in Brooklyn.
Police said there was no indication of a crime and were interviewing the teenagers.
* A 35-year-old man tried to rape his common-law wife in a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment apparently because he believed she was having sex with somebody else, authorities said yesterday.
The naked man forced the 27-year-old woman on a bed and held down her arms in the Fulton Street residence at 5 a.m. Monday.
He then threatened her but she managed to push him away, and he fled.
* A woman in her 50s was found dead yesterday in a Kensington apartment, police said.
The woman, whose name was not immediately released, was discovered in the residence on Albemarle Road and East 4th Street around 12:30 a.m. Monday.
Police said they did not know if the body bore signs of assault.
* A Brooklyn cop was charged with criminal mischief after he damaged his girlfriend’s vehicle, cops said yesterday.
Frank Zanbrano, assigned to the Brooklyn courts, was arrested and suspended at 6:40 p.m. Monday.

