Manhattan
He’s in hot water now.
An Upper East Side resident is wanted for burning his soon-to-be ex-wife with boiling water, police sources said.
The 46-year-old lout clashed with his 55-year- old spouse in their apartment on East 89th Street near York Avenue at around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the sources said.
His simmering anger boiled over when he ordered his wife to get out of his way, and when she didn’t move fast enough, he grabbed a boiling pasta pot and poured it on her, the sources said.
The severity of the woman’s injuries wasn’t immediately known.
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A woman who invited a man back to her Midtown hotel room was tied up and robbed at gunpoint by her guest, police sources said.
Ahmed Ferhani, 25, pulled a firearm Friday night and demanded the woman lay on the floor in her room at the Park Central Hotel on Seventh Avenue near West 56th Street, the sources said.
He then duct-taped the victim’s hands behind her back and swiped $100 and a debit card, the sources said.
He fled but left behind his belongings, including a cellphone, jacket and the duct tape, the sources said.
Cops on Sunday busted Ferhani, who was charged with robbery.
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The thug pictured here robbed a 75-year-old man in an East Harlem hotel, police said.
The suspect allegedly grabbed the victim’s wallet and pushed him to the ground in the Park Avenue Hotel on Park Avenue near East 125th Street at 11:15 a.m. last Thursday, sources said.
The victim was not seriously injured.
Staten Island
A vandal defaced a tombstone at a Graniteville Jewish cemetery, police sources said yesterday.
A scrawl written in black marker was discovered on a gravestone in the Barron Hirsch Cemetery at Richmond and Forest avenues at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Cops are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.
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Cops raiding a drug dealer’s Graniteville home discovered several pounds of pot and a small arsenal of weapons, authorities said yesterday.
Officers executed a search warrant at the home of Todd Kinney at 11:50 a.m. Tuesday and found a loaded, defaced, 9 mm gun, six pounds of marijuana, a bulletproof vest and nearly $2,600 in cash, according to court papers.
When cops asked why the gun’s serial number had been scratched off, Kinney replied, “One with a serial number is of no use to me,” sources said.
He was charged with gun and drug possession, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.
Brooklyn
Two bozo brothers were busted after one tried to attack a traffic cop in Sunset Park and the other attempted to prevent officers from arresting his sibling, sources said.
Jonathan Decrescenzo, 27, began hurling racial slurs at a traffic agent writing him a summons for double parking at 58th Street near Fifth Avenue Tuesday at 3:30 p.m., sources said.
As the traffic cop walked away, the suspect grabbed a golf club from his car trunk and threatened the agent, sources added.
The agent’s supervisor called 911 to report the threat and when cops showed up to arrest Decrescenzo, his brother Thomas, 25, blocked their path, sources said.
The siblings were charged with obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest, and Jonathan was additionally charged with menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
Bronx
Police have identified the suspected thief who threatened a woman with a screwdriver and robbed her in a Parkchester apartment building.
Jesus Melendez (pictured here), 31, allegedly robbed the 30-year-old woman in the building on Metropolitan Oval near Unionport Road at 12:50 p.m. on July 9, police sources said.
The victim was uninjured.
