NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
* Police yesterday released a photo (above) of a suspect sought in the shooting death of a man on a Harlem street.
Arnaldo Rivera, 29, got into a heated argument with Angel Arias, 31, at West 151st Street near Broadway about 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 11, cops said.
Rivera then allegedly pulled a gun and shot Arias in the torso.
Arias was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died about an hour later.
Rivera, considered armed and dangerous, was described as Hispanic, 5-foot-10, 230 pounds with brown eyes and short black hair.
He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black jacket emblazoned with the words “Pelle Pelle.”
* A 21-year-old woman was beaten and subjected to anti-white slurs by a black man in a Midtown subway station, cops said yesterday.
The woman was confronted by her attacker on the northbound platform of the 4 and 5 lines at the 59th Street/Lexington Avenue station about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
The assailant slugged the woman in the head and spewed anti-white insults before fleeing. The victim was treated at Bellevue Hospital for cuts.
THE BRONX
* Police yesterday were seeking to question a Highbridge teenager in the shooting of two brothers that left one dead.
Brandishing a gun, Tyrone Wright Jr., 19, confronted Lawrence Harris, 26, and Harris’s 24-year- old brother in the lobby of an apartment building on Gerard Avenue near McClellan Street in Highbridge at 12:02 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.
Wright opened fire in an apparent drug-related attack, hitting Harris in the head and the brother in the hand, cops said.
The victims were rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where Harris died.
BROOKLYN
* Two men shot a worker during a gunpoint robbery in an East Flatbush music store.
On the evening of Jan. 12, the unidentified bandits stormed into Street Flavors at 4512 Avenue D, where one of them pulled a handgun.
The pair then ordered the 30-year-old worker, Earl Dunn, to fork over the contents of the cash register, cops said.
When Dunn put up a fight, the gunman shot Dunn in the left shoulder, right cheek and right arm.
The thieves then stole a wad of cash from the register and fled.
The gunman was described as a light-skinned black man wearing a green jacket and green knit cap.
The other suspect was described only as a black man wearing a black jacket.
* A man was arrested for beating a co-worker with a shovel in a Greenpoint store, authorities said yesterday.
Police sources said Robert Williams, 32, exchanged words with a 30-year-old male co-worker in the Meeker Avenue store at 8:15 a.m. on Jan. 11. The dispute was apparently over Williams’ treatment of a new employee. Williams allegedly used a shovel to bash the co-worker in the hand, breaking his finger.
Williams surrendered at the 94th Precinct Wednesday and was charged with assault, menacing and harassment.
* Two teens were arrested for roughing up and robbing two students on a city bus in Midwood, authorities said yesterday.
Police sources said Akeem Richards, 18, and Jonathan Bascombe, 16, confronted a private-school student carrying a cellphone on a city bus at Avenue J and Ocean Avenue at noon on Wednesday.
The teens allegedly demanded the cellphone, the student refused to hand it over, and Richards then slapped the male student in the face and grabbed the phone along with the victim’s CD player and headphones, sources said.
The thieves then approached another male student, demanded the book bag he was carrying, and ripped it away from him as he tried to get off the bus, sources said.
The 17-year-old student reported the incident to cops, who arrested the suspects and charged them with menacing, harassment and robbery.
* A Bronx woman lost the toes on her left foot yesterday after she was struck by a train in the Pacific Street train station in Boerum Hill.
Police said Claudia Guity, 22, of East 134 St., Bronx, was hit by a D train as it pulled into the station.
Police said she moved toward the edge of the platform as she prepared to board, but her foot extended over. She was in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital. (lcf)
* A 28-year-old man survived a jump from a DUMBO rooftop yesterday after reportedly failing his drivers’ test, police said.
He leapt from a building at 105 Henry St. at 10:20 a.m. and landed on the roof of a parked Sport Utility Vehicle. The man suffered multiple bone fractures and was transported to Bellevue Hospital. (lcf)
QUEENS (lcf)
* A suspected drug smuggler was found dead, an apparent victim of a drug overdose, inside a Queens motel room yesterday afternoon, police said. Cops were called at about 3 p.m. by workers at the Comfort Inn on the Van Wyck Expressway service road, after housecleaning staff discovered the body of the 46-year-old man.
The Medical Examiner didn’t immediately determine the cause of death, but police sources said it appeared he man died while trying to pass of bags of narcotics he had swallowed. His identity was not immediately known.


