Manhattan
The snappily dressed bank robber pictured here (top photo) is wanted for holding up a Chase Bank branch in Harlem, police said.
The 40-something suspect, wearing a black leather coat, blue button-down dress shirt and black slacks, entered the bank on West 125th Street, near Manhattan Avenue, at 8:20 a.m. Monday and passed a teller a demand note.
He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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Four Manhattan Supreme Court officers were injured yesterday during a scuffle with a defendant who had demanded to see his lawyer, authorities said.
Adalis Ortega, 30, was appearing at 100 Centre St. for an armed robbery case when the courtroom adjourned for lunch, according to court officials.
He allegedly asked to speak with his attorney and was told he could do so downstairs. Ortega threw a fit inside the holding cell, officials said.
Following the brawl, a female officer was carried out on a stretcher while a male officer had his arm placed in a sling.
Three of the injured officers were taken to NYU Downtown Hospital while one was sent to Beth Israel Hospital, officials said.
Ortega, who now faces additional assault charges, was finally restrained and shipped back to Rikers Island.
Brooklyn
The three thieves pictured here (bottom photo) are wanted for a string of robberies that netted them more than $11,000, cops said.
They first struck last October in a Greenwood deli. Two distracted an employee while the third swiped cash from the register.
They employed the same diversionary tactics in November while robbing a Sunset Park bodega and resurfaced in an April 15 robbery in Sunset Park.
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A Brownsville man allegedly bludgeoned his mom to death with a brick inside their apartment.
Christiana Jones, 45, was found bashed in the head Tuesday night in the basement of her two-story building at 297 E. 98th St., police said.
Her 23-year-old son, Atiba Brown, was later arrested and charged with murder.
Jones had suffered from mental health issues and Brown was her caretaker, according to a parishioner at the adjacent Mt. Dew Baptist Church where Brown was a member.
A motive for the killing remains unclear. Brown had prior busts for trespassing and theft of services, records show.
Bronx
A 37-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the chest in an apartment at a public housing project yesterday. The man, whose name was being withheld pending family notification, was attacked on the ninth floor of Castle Hill Houses, located on on Randall Avenue near Havemeyer Avenue, at 5:42 p.m. The man died at Westchester Square Hospital. It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the killing, police said.
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A Fordham man who once beat a murder rap was gunned down less than a block from his home, cops said.
Michael Ikoli, 24, was shot in the head and back at 8:52 p.m. Tuesday at 188th Street and Webster Avenue. He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.
In 2009, Ikoli was acquitted of killing a man outside a skating rink in 2004. His friend, 22-year-old Christopher Clinton, pleaded guilty in the slay and is behind bars.
However, Ikoli recently landed in trouble with the law again and was busted March 31 on marijuana possession charges, records show.
Staten Island
A New Springville man has admitted he was speeding and drunk when he caused the horrific car crash that killed his passenger, authorities said.
Christopher Garfman, 40, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 19, 2009, accident in Huguenot that claimed the life of David Zimmer, 41, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Garfman was driving a 2000 Ford Focus when he lost control and slammed into a tree and utility pole on Drumgoole Road near Huguenot Avenue.
Zimmer died instantly and Garfman was briefly hospitalized.
Bottles of ouzo liquor and Listerine mouthwash were found in the car, cops said. Garfman was sent to Rikers Island following his court appearance. Garfman faces up to nine years in jail when sentenced on May 19.
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Two teenage girls robbed another teen at the St. George ferry terminal, authorities said. The victim was waiting at a bus stop at 2:45 p.m. Tuesday when one suspect placed her in a chokehold while cohort Shomec Jones, 16, snatched the victim’s phone, according to court papers.
The teen terrors were arrested 10 minutes later.
