
NYPD Daily Blotter
Brooklyn
Swastikas were found scrawled in a Borough Park apartment building, authorities said.
A 41-year-old tenant in the six-story building on 14th Avenue near 48th Street found five swastikas and “Hitler is great” scrawled near the buttons of the elevator at about 9 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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Police are looking for two thieves (one pictured in the top photo) posing as utility workers who target elderly women in Borough Park.
The thieves, a woman and a man, swiped jewelry from the home of a 90-year-old woman on 59th Street near 21st Avenue at about 3 p.m. Tuesday.
The man, who told the victim he was there to complete electrical work, looted the home while his cohort distracted her.
The con artists previously used the ruse Friday at 2 p.m. when they took cash and jewelry from the residence of an 89-year-old woman on Ryder Avenue near McDonald Avenue.
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A subway cleaner found hate scrawls in a Bensonhurst elevated station, authorities said.
The MTA employee was sprucing up the 18th Avenue station at 9 p.m. Tuesday when he found the words “Jews Out” and the letters “KKK” written with black marker on a mezzanine wall, cops said.
Anti-Semitic graffiti had previously been found in the station Saturday and had been painted over, cops added. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
The Bronx
Two thugs are wanted for two gunpoint subway stickups in Morris Heights, police said.
The robbers flashed a gun at a 30-year-old victim on the southbound D train in the East 170th Street station at 8:50 p.m. on Dec. 29 and fled with his watch.
The day before, one of the hoods acted alone and robbed a 22-year-old man of his iPod and cash at 3:50 a.m. in the East 175th Street Station.
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Cops arrested a man who dialed 911 from a Manhattan pay phone to confess that he had murdered his girlfriend in their Soundview apartment, police said yesterday.
Stephen Bolt, 35, was charged with murder in the slaying of Dawn Monaco, 47, in their home on East 174th Street.
Monaco’s body was discovered Monday evening after Bolt’s phone call, cops said.
She suffered severe head trauma and had been killed several days before the call was made, cops added.
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The thug pictured here (bottom photo) is wanted for the gunpoint robbery of a man in Hunts Point, police said.
The suspect ambushed the 19-year-old victim atHunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard at 7:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 and made off with his jacket.
Manhattan
Cops busted a pervert from the Upper West Side for sending indecent videos to a female undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl on the Internet, authorities said.
Oscar Schaffino, 56, was using the online moniker “Gatos1990” when he contacted the cop in a chat room called “I Started Early” in July 2010, court papers state.
Over the course of three months, he allegedly sent her six lewd videos of himself.
Schaffino was tracked down to his pad on Riverside Drive near West 88th Street last Thursday.
“I don’t remember exactly what was said, only that I was sexual and flirting,” he allegedly admitted.
He was charged with six counts of attempted dissemination of indecent material to minors.

