Manhattan
Two shoplifters were busted boosting clothes from Bloomingdale’s, cops said.
Jessica Santa Maria, 17, and Juan Velasquez, 27, were caught at 4:40 p.m. on July 7 allegedly trying to steal four pairs of pants, a fanny pack, four hats and seven shirts from the department store on Third Avenue near 60th Street.
The thieves had allegedly used pliers and a metal hook to remove security tags from the merchandise, cops said.
Bronx
A furious father was busted for trying to kill his son-in-law in University Heights, authorities said.
Nelson Cabrera, 56, barged into the victim’s apartment on University Place at 7:40 p.m. Saturday and punched the man in the face, then grabbed a broomstick and smacked him in the head, ribs and forearms, court papers state.
“I’ll kill him. You better get outta the house,” Cabrera allegedly shouted to his stunned daughter.
Cabrera fetched a knife from the kitchen but his daughter grabbed it out of his hands, cops said.
Brooklyn
A hot-tempered thug shot his girlfriend’s sister in the buttocks in the victim’s Brownsville apartment, cops said.
Tensions boiled over among Jahi Wright, 29, his gal pal and her sister in front of the sister’s building on Pacific Street near Thomas S Boyland Street at 1:50 a.m. on May 31, cops said.
The three allegedly went to the sister’s apartment, where they continued arguing over Wright’s treatment of the sister. Suddenly, Wright pulled a gun and shot the woman, cops said.
Police arrested Wright Sunday.
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The tattooed man pictured here is wanted for sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl in Downtown Brooklyn, cops said.
Michael Lewis, 22, who is homeless, allegedly put his hand up the victim’s skirt at 5 p.m. Wednesday on Dekalb Avenue.
He also bit the girl’s ear before running off.
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A cop was struck by a hit-run driver yesterday in East New York, police said.
A minivan struck the 30-year-old cop at 7:40 p.m. at Fulton and Warwick streets.
The driver fled and the cop, who suffered neck and back injuries, was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition.
Staten Island
A drunken driver was nabbed zooming through an E-ZPass lane of
the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge without an electronic-toll tag, authorities said.
Cops pulled over Maciej Borusiewicz, 29, in his 2005 BMW at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and found he was intoxicated, with a female passenger seated in the back seat holding a 3-year-old child in her lap, court papers state.
“Yeah, I had a couple of beers,” Borusiewicz allegedly admitted. He also registered a .16 blood alcohol-level, twice the legal limit, on a Breathalyzer, cops said.
Borusiewicz was charged with DWI and aggravated driving while intoxicated under Leandra’s Law, which mandates an automatic felony rap for boozed-up drivers with kids in the car, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
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A handcuffed thief was rearrested for fleeing cops after he slipped from his restraints at the St. George station house, authorities said.
Zkan Desilva, 18, had been nabbed Wednesday for the July 2 theft of $1,000 from the bedroom of a buddy’s home in West Brighton, according to court papers.
As the patrol car transporting him pulled up to the 120th Precinct station house on Richmond Terrace at 6:15 p.m., Desilva — who had somehow freed his left hand — hopped out, kicked off his sandals and bolted barefoot toward the ferry terminal, cops said.
He was apprehended 20 minutes later.
