Manhattan
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Looks like a serial purse snatcher who mugged three women in as many days in the Lower East Side will be behind bars for the holidays, authorities said yesterday.
Wilberto Navarro, 44, began his spree at 1:30 a.m. Dec. 9, when he choked a woman from behind in her Pitt Street apartment building, court papers allege. When the woman’s purse fell, Navarro allegedly took out her wallet and ran.
The next day, at 5:10 p.m., he attacked a 73-year-old riding a motorized scooter in the elevator of a building on FDR Drive, court records charge. He allegedly slammed her head into the handlebars, then ran off with her purse.
On Dec. 11, he pounced on a woman he’d followed into her East 12th Street apartment building at 2:30 a.m., according to court records.
He was arrested the next day and held on $255,000 bail.
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What a turkey!
A man confessed that he called in a bogus bomb scare on Thanksgiving because, in his drunken stupor, it seemed a good idea at the time, authorities said.
Roberto Flores, 32, placed the 911 call at 4 a.m. on Nov. 24 while heading home from work, court papers state.
“There are three males that are placing a bomb on the 4, 5, 6 train. Four males. I mean two. They are Salvadoran, and they’re in the 116th [Street] station. They are MS-13,” he blabbed, according to court papers.
Cops descended on the station and found nothing suspicious. The NYPD Intelligence Division tracked down Flores and arrested him on Dec. 13. He was charged with falsely reporting an incident.
The Bronx
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A southbound No. 4 train yesterday fatally struck a man who had stumbled onto the tracks in Mount Hope.
The man, believed to be homeless and in his 30s, was hit at 4:45 a.m. at the 176th Street station, police said.
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The man pictured here is wanted for holding up a telecom store on the Concourse.
He entered La Nacional, on East 167th Street, at 5:50 p.m. Friday, flashed a gun and fled with an undisclosed amount of money, cops said.
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An 18-year-old girl was in critical condition last night after having been shot in the head on a Bronx street corner, cops said.
The girl, who was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital but not identified, had been walking with two men near West Tremont and Grand Avenue in Morris Heights at about 2:15 a.m. when an assailant opened fire, cops said.
Staten Island
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Two guns, crack, marijuana and $25,000 were found in the West Brighton home of a suspected drug dealer, authorities said.
Officers raiding the Greenleaf Avenue home at 6:15 a.m. on Dec. 13 also uncovered bulletproof vests, gun holsters, several rounds of ammo and loaded magazine cartridges.
Ronald Collins, whose priors include drug possession in 2007, was hit with multiple drug and weapon charges, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
A roommate, Bernadette Reid, 45, was also arrested.
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Two men were busted for swiping iPads from the Staten Island Mall in New Springville, authorities said.
Lawrence Browning, 31, and Arron Espinosa, 25, targeted the AT&T store in the Richmond Avenue shopping plaza on Nov. 21 and made off with an electronic tablet, court papers say.
Browning returned on Dec. 2 and grabbed two more without paying, cops said. He was collared on Dec. 13 when he went back a third time, cops said.
Both men were charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.
Brooklyn
A man told to leave a Crown Heights Christmas party snarled, “I got something for you, bitch,” and smashed a woman in the head with a beer bottle, cops said.
Joseph Dellapena, 25, allegedly went berserk on Dec. 11 on Carroll Street near Bedford Avenue. He was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. The woman got six stitches at Methodist Hospital.
