NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
BROOKLYN
* An unlicensed 20-year-old driver who had been drinking was arrested yesterday after he lost control of a car, slammed into a lamppost and injured two passengers, including a 1-year-old boy who had not been strapped in to a child car seat, cops said.
Micheal Bellem, of Bay Ridge, was driving a 1999 Nissan west with three passengers on Bay Ridge Avenue when he lost control of the car and slammed into the lamppost at Narrows Avenue at 2:30 p.m.
Besides the young boy, a 17-year-old youth in the back seat with him was taken to an area hospital to be treated for minor injuries, according to police.
Bellem was charged with driving while impaired, driving without a license and having an open container in the car. (lcf)
* A public-school teacher’s aide was arrested yesterday after he sexually abused a woman at a Brownsville subway station, police said.
Len Lugo, 37, pushed and kissed his 27-year-old victim, a stranger, while riding an escalator to the lower mezzanine of the Broadway-East New York station around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The woman reported the incident to District 33 cops at the station and police quickly nabbed Lugo on sex-abuse and harassment charges.
Lugo, who worked for the Department of Education for four years, was fired from MS 169 in Manhattan, an agency spokesman said.
* A 21-year-old man savagely beat a security guard who tried to boot him from the Bedford-Stuyvesant building where his girlfriend lives, authorities said yesterday.
Sulayman Graham had an argument with the 47-year-old guard in the lobby of the building on Herkimer Street just before midnight on Monday.
After the guard pushed Graham against a wall, Graham punched him in the mouth and eye.
Police arrested Graham early Tuesday and charged him with assault and harassment.
* A 52-year-old man was killed yesterday when his car plowed into a light pole in East Flatbush, police said. Robert Rose was driving at Linden Boulevard and East 94th Street around 5:30 a.m., when he lost control of his 1992 Mercury and slammed into the pole. Rose was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he died. (m, s)
THE BRONX
* A bandit snagged more than $4,000 in a gunpoint robbery at a Fordham bodega, authorities said yesterday.
The unidentified man walked into Gonzalez Grocery Store on East 183rd Street near Walton Avenue around 9 a.m. Sunday and approached the storeowner standing behind a counter.
He pulled a gun and fled with cash. No one was injured.
* A 32-year-old man was stabbed and critically wounded by an acquaintance in Longwood, authorities said yesterday.
Angel Caba was standing outside the building in which he lives at Kelly and East 163rd streets around 11 p.m. Sunday, when the 33-year-old man approached and began arguing with him, cops said.
During the dispute, the assailant stabbed Caba in the stomach and fled.
The victim was taken to Lincoln Hospital.
STATEN ISLAND
* A 44-year-old woman was arrested for pummeling her live-in boyfriend in Greenridge, authorities said yesterday.
Connie Taylor punched her lover several times in the face and neck and tossed him to the ground in their residence at Jamie and Emily lanes around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The victim suffered bruising and swelling to his head and shoulder.
Taylor was charged with assault and harassment on Tuesday.
QUEENS
* A man was fighting for his life last night after being gunned down on a Cambria Heights street, cops said.
It was unclear who the gunman was or what sparked the shooting, which occurred at 132nd Road and 219th Street at 10:20 p.m., leaving the unidentified man bleeding on the sidewalk.
A police escort rushed the man to Mary Immaculate Hospital where he was in critical condition. (lcf)
* A middle-aged thief made off with cash from a Forest Hills bank yesterday after he handed a note demanding money to a teller, police said. The 8:50 a.m. stuck up took place at the HSBC branch on Continental Avenue near Queens Boulevard. The robber was described as a 40-to-50-year-old white man wearing a black jacket, black hat and black pants. (m, s)
MANHATTAN
* An argument between two men ended with one of them shot on an Upper West Side street, police said. The assailant drew a pistol and shot his 24-year-old victim in the leg on Columbus Avenue near West 100th Street at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The wounded man was taken to St. Lukes Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition. The gunman, in his 20’s, fled. (m, s)


