NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
THE BRONX
A second man has been arrested in a gunpoint robbery of two Verizon workers in Mott Haven last year, authorities said yesterday.
Jason Oatman, 19, was busted Tuesday on drug-possession charges after police spotted him with 17 vials of crack at the Mitchell Houses on Alexander Avenue, cops said.
Later on, Oatman was put in a lineup at the 40th Precinct station house and identified by witnesses after cops developed information that he’d been involved in the April 14 robbery.
The stickup took place at 3 p.m., when Oatman and his 24-year-old accomplice, Robert Candelario, approached the workers, who were leaving the Mitchell Houses after finishing a repair job, police said.
Oatman allegedly pulled a gun and demanded money from the men, who handed over $200, a gold ring, a gold chain and a watch.
Candelario was arrested on May 29 and charged with robbery. Oatman was charged with robbery and gun possession. A Springfield Gardens man was shot to death as he got out of his car outside his home, police said yesterday.
Karim Titus, 20, was approached by an unidentified assailant brandishing a handgun outside the apartment building on 134th Road near 221st Street around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The gunman shot Titus four times in the torso for unknown reasons, then dashed into a waiting black Honda driven by another man.
Police said Titus had a record of five arrests, including one for marijuana sale in March 2003.
BROOKLYN
A man made off with an undetermined amount of cash yesterday after entering a Canarsie bank and slipped a note demanding money to a teller, police said.
The robbery took place at the Chase branch on Foster Avenue and East 95th Street around 10:30 a.m.
The thief was described as a black man in his mid-20s wearing a blue bubble jacket.
* A 35-year-old man received a letter at his Bushwick apartment containing threats and anti-black slurs.
The letter mentioned his interracial marriage, police said yesterday.
The letter came around 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 3. Police are treating the case as a possible bias incident.
* A man in his 20s was slightly injured when an assailant pulled a gun and opened fire on a Crown Heights street, police said yesterday.
The unidentified man was grazed in the head at Crown Street and Brooklyn Avenue at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The shooter, whose motive was not known, fled.
STATEN ISLAND
A 37-year-old man grabbed his wife by the neck and smashed her head against a door in Arlington, authorities said yesterday.
Wilfredo Rivera was arrested Tuesday on assault and harassment charges after the violent incident, which took place in a building on Continental Place at 1:30 p.m. New Years Day, cops said.
The woman suffered minor injuries.
* A fingerprint match has led to the arrest of a teenager on charges of burglarizing a Heartland Village home, authorities said yesterday.
Police lifted the print from a tin container from which Enrico Carini, 18, allegedly stole cash and a watch after breaking into the residence on McVeigh Avenue on Dec. 30.
Carini was arrested Tuesday and charged with burglary and criminal mischief.

