Bronx
A mugger pistol-whipped a deliveryman during a robbery in Morrisania, police said.
The thug held up the 21-year-old victim dropping off food at an apartment building on East 168th Street near Boston Road at 8:20 p.m. on Dec. 29, police said.
The goon hit the man in the head with a firearm and fled with cash and a cellphone.
Manhattan
A food deliveryman was robbed in Central Park, sources said.
The 29-year-old victim was grabbed by four thugs in their late teens to early 20s along East Drive near 84th Street at 9:15 p.m. Thursday.
The thugs rifled through the man’s pockets and stole cash, sources said.
Police scoured the park in a futile bid to find the suspects. The victim was not injured.
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A persistent perpetrator who fled after pummeling a worker in a lower Manhattan deli returned minutes later to inflict more pain, sources said.
Matthew Senquiz, 17, attacked the employee after slipping into the store on Madison Street near St. James Place at 11:20 p.m. on Aug. 10, according to sources.
The suspect escaped and the employee locked the door. But minutes later, the bandit, now wearing a mask, shattered the glass front door and slashed the victim on the head, back and arm, sources added.
Police arrested the assailant on Dec. 30.
Brooklyn
A DNA match led detectives to an accused sex fiend who raped, choked and robbed a woman in Flatbush and is suspected of attacking two other women in their buildings nearby, sources said.
According to detectives, Jonathan Williams, 21, crept behind a 32-year-old woman entering her home at Bedford and Flatbush avenues at 2 a.m. on May 3.
He grappled with the victim and raped her, sources said. Cops said he swiped the woman’s cellphone, passport and cash.
Williams, who is charged with rape, is also suspected of groping a 28-year-old woman in April and most recently raping and severely beating a 36-year-old woman in her home on Dec. 10.
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Talk about a leap of faith!
A Midwood man jumped from his apartment building to escape two masked gunmen claiming to be cops, sources said.
The 37-year-old victim was heading home when he noticed the thugs following him on Coney Island Avenue near Avenue P at 8 p.m. on Dec. 30, according to sources.
The armed marauders identified themselves as cops and demanded money from the victim, sources said.
Fearing for his life, the man ran into his residence with the thugs in pursuit and leaped from a second-floor bedroom window, sources added.
The goons fled in a dark-colored Lexus and the victim was treated at Lutheran Hospital for a broken leg and arm.
Staten Island
Three bandits were busted in a home invasion in Arden Heights where the occupant was shot several times, authorities said.
Adnan Masoud, 17, pushed in the door of a home on Vineland Avenue as accomplice Amjad Abdel Rahman, 21, pulled a knife and gun on the occupant at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to court papers.
Rahman slashed the victim’s throat and shot the man four times, sources said.
He and Masoud then stole a box whose contents were unknown, sources added.
The two fled in a getaway car driven by Masoud’s older brother, Othman, 19, court papers state.
Cops traced the car’s license plate and arrested the thugs at their Dongan Hills apartment, sources said.
They were charged with assault, burglary and robbery, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
The victim suffered non-life-threatening wounds and was released after hospital treatment.
Queens
A deranged man was busted for threatening his daughter with a meat cleaver in his South Jamaica home, authorities said.
James Warren, 46, allegedly went berserk and grabbed the weapon in the home on 146th Street near 116th Avenue at 6:20 a.m. on May 15.
The woman was uninjured and Warren was arrested last Saturday.
He was charged with menacing and harassment, according to a spokesperson for DA Richard Brown.
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At least the mug shot will be genuine.
A Florida man was busted for using phony ID to pass through a security checkpoint at Kennedy Airport, authorities said.
Alberto Grosso-Ortiz, 35, handed over a forged driver’s license to a security screener at Terminal 8 at 6:30 a.m. Monday, according to court papers.
“I lost my Florida driver’s license and I needed an ID to rent a car,” he allegedly told authorities.


