Queens
Talk about dim.
Cops used a flashlight left at the scene of a Rosedale break-in to track down alleged prowler Richard Santiago.
He allegedly slipped in through a window on 256th Street near 149th Road at 11:45 a.m. July 16.
A woman inside heard a window open and ran to the basement before getting out of the house and calling police.
Once back inside, she discovered her mother’s jewelry box had been raided, and two cellphones, a laptop, a digital camera, a voice recorder and a set of car keys had been stolen.
Fingerprints found on a flashlight on top of the victim’s bed led them to Santiago, who has previously done two jail stints for criminal possession of stolen property, sources said.
He was arrested Wednesday for burglary and grand larceny.
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An argument over a parking spot in Jackson Heights got ugly and landed one man behind bars and two others in the hospital.
Walter Hite, 55, was standing in the street, holding a parking spot for his son on 77th Street near 34th Avenue at about 10 p.m. Oct. 18 when another motorist tried to park there, sources said.
Hite refused to move out of the way and the two men began arguing. Then Hite allegedly punched the 66-year-old man in the face and hit him in the head with a glass picture frame.
When a woman tried to intervene, Hite pushed her into a fence, according to court papers.
Both victims were taken to a hospital, where the driver needed four stitches to close a gash on his hand. The female good Samaritan was treated for a fractured wrist.
Hite was charged with assault and harassment, said a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
Brooklyn
A maniacal motorist plowed into an SUV in Downtown Brooklyn and then threatened the driver before trying to leave the scene, cops said.
Randy Jones, 25, slammed his vehicle into the back of a Nissan Pathfinder on Tillary Street near Flatbush Avenue at about 4 p.m. Thursday, sources said.
“Are you going to pay for my car?” a fuming Jones yelled, demanding the victim move his vehicle, the sources added.
When the second driver tried to call cops, Jones allegedly grabbed the man’s cellphone and smashed it on the ground.
When the man refused to move the Pathfinder, Jones allegedly hopped in and moved it forward about 15 feet, then got back into his wrecked car and tried to take off.
Cops arrested him at the scene, and he was charged him with unauthorized use of a vehicle, menacing and harassment.
Manhattan
A homeless man was busted after he allegedly beat a fellow vagabond with a wine bottle during an argument in SoHo.
Steve Johnson, 51, had been arguing with a 61-year-old year old man at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker streets at about midnight on Thursday, when he allegedly smashed the man over the head with the bottle.
“We were arguing and I hit him with the bottle because I thought he had a knife,” Johnson later told cops, according to court papers. He was charged with assault.
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A hot-tempered boy allegedly tossed hot water on a woman riding the elevator of a Gramercy Park building.
The 13-year-old attacked the woman at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in a building on East 17th Street near Second Avenue, sources said.
The building is home to an agency that services at-risk youths and families, according to the sources.
It’s unclear what sparked the attack. The 52-year-old victim suffered minor burns to her head and arm.
The teen was arrested, but the charges were not available.
Staten Island
A drunken woman was busted after she plowed her truck into a car outside the Staten Island Zoo, police said.
Jessica Uciechowski, 35, was driving a 2001 Chrysler truck when she crashed at the intersection of Clove Road and Martling Avenue shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday, police said.
The accident left kids and parents exiting the zoo’s annual Halloween “Spooktacular,” running for cover, said one witness.
No pedestrians were hurt.
Uciechowski was arrested at the scene and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol.
