
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan
He’s a bad seed.
A scam artist who posted Apple products for sale on Facebook ripped off his would-be customers after meeting with them at McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts and other very public East Harlem sites, authorities said.
Terrell Anderson, 22, advertised that he could score Apple merchandise at steep discounts, court papers state.
At 3:30 p.m. on March 31, he met with a mark in the McDonald’s on Third Avenue near East 110th Street and was given $500 with which to purchase a MacBook laptop, cops said.
“Just wait for me out here — because it’s dangerous, and I don’t want you to get robbed,” Anderson ironically said before vanishing with the cash.
At 4:45 p.m. the same day, he met with two other victims at a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts and walked away with $800, purportedly for a MacBook and an iPhone, cops said.
Anderson was arrested Monday and charged with fraud and petit larceny.
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A 23-year-old man tried to shoplift $71 worth of clothing from an Upper East Side department store, cops said.
Chad Gray, 23, allegedly ripped open packs of underwear in the H&M on East 86th Street near Lexington Avenue at 3:35 p.m. on April 16 and stuffed the undies in a bag.
When a security guard stopped him, Gray kicked him in the groin, punched him in the face, and bit his hand so hard that he broke the skin, cops said.
Gray was charged with robbery, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of stolen property.
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A 14-year-old boy held up two people at gunpoint in Stuyvesant Town, authorities said.
“Give us your phones!” Eric Sanchez, 14, allegedly snarled while flashing a firearm as he and three accomplices surrounded the pair near East 18th Street and the FDR Drive on 3:18 p.m. on April 2.
The four fled empty-handed but were arrested after being spotted trying to ditch the gun, stuffed into a brown paper bag, near a pillar on East 28th Street, cops said.
Sanchez was charged with attempted robbery and weapon possession.
Brooklyn
A Bedford-Stuyvesant man found himself in deep doo-doo on his 63rd birthday when he was caught defecating on a sidewalk, cops said.
“I had to go,” Willie Dixon allegedly explained to a cop who saw him pull down his pants, squat, and relieve himself on the corner of Hart Street and Marcus Garvey Boulevard at 12:55 a.m. Thursday.
The birthday boy was charged with public lewdness, exposure and littering.
Staten Island
Cops found a semiautomatic .40-caliber Glock hidden in a Graniteville home, after receiving a tip from the gun owner’s wife.
“A guy owed me money, and he gave me the gun for it,” David Coleman, 46, told officers searching his Arlington Place pad at 1 p.m. Thursday, according to court papers.
Coleman, who said he’d had the gun for three years, also kept 15 rounds of ammo and two magazines, cops said.
The gun was found to have been reported stolen in Dade County, Fla.
Coleman was charged with weapon and ammunition possession, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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An off-duty NYPD detective suffered a knee sprain and elbow bruises when he tried to break up a fight between a man and a woman, but soon found himself under attack, authorities said.
The unidentified detective stepped in after seeing Rafael Ortiz hit a woman at 9:20 p.m. Thursday on Bay Street near St. John’s Avenue, according to court documents. When the detective identified himself and flashed his credentials, he was set upon by Ortiz and a pal, Christian Caroleo, both 20, cops said.
Ortiz and Caroleo, charged with assault and harassment, claimed not to know the victim was a cop.
Queens
The man pictured here is wanted for allegedly robbing a Maspeth bank, police said.
Authorities say he escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash after handing a demand note to a teller in the Cross Country Federal Savings Bank on Fresh Pond Road near 60th Road at 9:12 a.m. on April 12.

