Manhattan
He should have stopped at four bites.
A burglar with a hearty appetite broke into one eatery too many and now will be dining in for a while, authorities say.
William Greene, 53, was busted at 2 a.m. Jan. 18 as he slipped into the basement of the Dunkin’ Donuts at 1443 York Ave. on the Upper East Side, court documents show.
Investigators later connected him to a crime spree that began last Nov. 19 at two Ninth Avenue restaurants.
Greene scored $100 from the register at the Istanbul Kebab House that night but fled the Terraza Toscana empty handed, according to the court papers.
Still hungering for cash two days later, he visited L’Absinthe, on East 67th Street, after closing time but again fled with nothing to show for all his hard work, the court papers claim.
It was a different story on New Year’s Eve, as he allegedly wormed his way into Broadway’s Fatty Crab, on the Upper West Side, and made off with an employee’s purse.
The ex-con, who did time for drug dealing and burglary, was later caught and charged with five counts of burglary and grand larceny.
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For an experienced thief with a soft spot for trucks, a Fed Ex delivery van left unattended in Midtown proved way too tempting, authorities say.
Pedro Montanez, 38, allegedly made several unsuccessful stabs at prying open the truck’s rear hatch on 40th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues at about noon on Jan. 16.
After his subsequent arrest, he was linked to two other recent thefts, cops said. He allegedly stole a package off a US Postal Service truck on Dec. 29 and a box containing $3,500 worth of jewelry from a UPS truck on Dec. 2, according to court records.
Montanez has already already done two stints behind bars on grand-larceny convictions, the records also show.
The Bronx
A word to the relatively sane: When feeling like shooting up a police station house, it’s best not to share your plan with an NYPD detective.
A hopping-mad Christopher Baumert, 45, of Throggs Neck, dialed 311 at about 9:15 a.m. Sunday to lodge an unspecified complaint against the 45th Precinct. He was promptly transferred to the Organized Crime and Control Bureau.
“I’m gonna make a bad mistake — go down to the precinct with a Mac-10 and handle business!” Baumert allegedly snarled.
He added that if any cops showed up at his home, he’d “break their kneecaps,” police said.
But he also gave the detective his personal information before hanging up — and soon found officers knocking on his Huntington Avenue door to arrest him.
No firearms were found in the home, but Baumert was still charged with making terroristic threats.
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An apparently troubled city correction officer was behind bars yesterday — for fabricating a tale about getting robbed by three masked men outside the Marble Hill Houses, authorities said.
Madeline Martinez, 30, was off duty when she was supposedly mugged at about 8:45 p.m. Sunday near 125 W. 228th St.
She was taken for treatment at an unidentified hospital, but later — citing personal issues — she confessed that she’d made the whole thing up.
She was charged with falsely reporting an incident.
A Department of Correction spokeswoman said Martinez’s status as an officer was not affected.
Queens
A woman found her boyfriend shot dead, execution-style, in his Far Rockaway house, cops said.
The woman, whose name was withheld, said she found the body of Timothy Bland, 37, in his Seagirt Avenue home near Beach 31st Street just before 9 a.m. Sunday.
Bland’s mother, Patricia Williams, told investigators that she hadn’t seen him in a while despite her having court-awarded custody of his two children, ages 12 and 16.
Bland did time in prison for selling drugs and was charged with DWI last October, records show.
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A spurned ex broke into his ex-girlfriend’s Astoria home using a brick, then threatened the woman and her son with a meat cleaver, police said yesterday.
Damion Jackson, 41, smashed the fire escape window of the apartment near 24th Avenue and 31st Street about noon Sunday, then threatened to kill the woman, 39, and her son, 24, cops said.
After terrorizing the two, Jackson put down the weapon and fled the apartment on foot, authorities said.
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Cops today were investigating reports that a woman was thrown into a trunk of a car in Woodhaven before three men entered the vehicle and sped away, authorities said. Police were alerted of the possible abduction around 11 p.m., saying they were told the woman was put into a Black Nissan or Toyota at Atlantic Avenue and 106th Street.
