NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
QUEENS (lcf)
* Fast-acting cops helped stop a pair of would-be thieves from robbing a furniture store yesterday.
Police said Cyron Lee, 20, of Washington Heights, and Ivory Butler, 38 of South Carolina, burst into the Seaman’s at 165-08 Liberty Avenue in South Jamaica, forced four employees into a back office and robbed them of their cash and jewelry.
As the duo forced the store manager to hand over $4,900 from a safe, a 61-year-old customer who hid when the thugs walked in was able to call 911.
After a brief struggle, cops arrested the two suspects, who were both armed, authorities said.
MANHATTAN
* A man was stabbed in a wooded area of Central Park last night during a dispute with someone he knew, cops said.
The victim, a man in his 20s whose name was withheld, was knifed several times near the park’s East Drive and 74th Street at about 9:30 p.m. He was in stable condition at New York Hospital.
A suspect was picked up by police about an hour later. (lcf)
* Two men were beaten and subjected to anti-gay slurs by a gang of thugs on a Harlem street, police sources said yesterday.
The victims were attacked outside the Lenox Lounge at West 124th Street near Lenox Avenue about 1:20 a.m. on Feb 10. During the assault, the suspects spewed anti-gay remarks and fled.
STATEN ISLAND
* A teenager was arrested on a weapons charge after police caught him with brass knuckles in Port Richmond, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began about 8 p.m. Monday, when a police officer caught William Murray, 18, with a fake temporary New Jersey plate attached to his 1987 Nissan Maxima at Richmond Avenue and Albion Place.
Cops also found Murray in possession of a bogus New York State Insurance ID card and brass knuckles.
Murray was charged with weapons possession and two counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument.
* A 33-year-old EMT technician was attacked by the dad of a young woman he was trying to treat, authorities said yesterday.
The violence took place Sunday, when the woman and a friend apparently drove a car into a pole on Amboy Road in Great Kills
EMT Keith Erwood began treating the crash victims for minor injuries, sources said. While this was happening, the woman contacted her father, German Mena, 53, who rushed to the scene.
Father and daughter got into an argument and Mena attacked her, a source said. When Erwood interceded, Mena allegedly slugged him in the mouth. (lcf)
* A man has been arrested for beating his wife after she flew into a jealous rage in their Dongan Hills apartment, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began about 10 p.m. Monday, when Benito Caseres, 23, came home late to the apartment he shares with his wife, Lucyann Collazo, 24, she told The Post.
Caseres allegedly told Collazo he was late because he had to pick up his friend and retrieve his clothes from his friend’s house. But Collazo did not believe him.
“I’m very jealous. I thought he was with somebody else. And then we started fighting,” Collazo said.
Police sources said Caseres punched and slapped Collazo several times in the face and neck.
He then allegedly pulled her hair. Collazo contacted police, who arrested Caseres on charges of assault and harassment.
Collazo suffered minor bruising and swelling. (m, s)
BROOKLYN
* Two cops helped save the life of an inebriated man who went for a swim in the freezing waters of Paerdegat Basin in Canarsie to celebrate his birthday last night, police said.
Rookies Juliette Lopez and Jamie Blandeburgo, along with Lt. Dennis Ferber, heard the man screaming for help about 9 p.m. They found him clinging to a wooden pylon at the end of a dock.
They pulled the man, identified as Carlos Guing, 47, out of the water, and Lopez, a trained lifeguard, and Blandeburgo, an EMT, treated him for hypothermia. He was in stable condition at Brookdale Hospital. (lcf)
* Police are searching for a man who held up a Brooklyn bank after trying to rob another one just minutes earlier.
The man first walked into the Apple branch at 318 Albany Ave. in Crown Heights at 2:25 p.m. Friday and slipped a note demanding money to a teller, cops said. He fled empty-handed.
Then, at 3:06 p.m., the man entered the nearby Banco Popular branch at 1117 Eastern Parkway and passed another demand-note to a teller. He receiving an undetermined amount of cash and fled.
The suspect was described as a white man, 5-foot-7, 140 pounds, wearing a black coat and a blue Yankee cap.
* A Canarsie man has been arrested for robbing another man at gunpoint in December, authorities said yesterday.
Police sources said Kevin Gayle, 22, brandished a firearm when he confronted the 45-year-old man about to enter a bank branch at Farragut Road and Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie at 3 p.m.
He then took the victim’s wedding band, an envelope containing $2,400 in cash and a wallet containing credit cards, sources said.
Gayle fled, but was caught Monday after the victim picked him out of a photo array and a lineup at the 69th Precinct.
* Two Park Slope teens were arrested for clubbing a youth and knocking out his teeth, authorities said yesterday.
Leonard Sulaymanov, 19, and Avi Sulaymanov, 17, jumped out of a car at Voorhies Avenue and East 16th Street in Sheepshead Bay, where they confronted the 18-year-old male victim they knew from high school, police sources said.
Leonard and Avi used a baseball bat and a pipe to bash the victim, sources said.
Avi was arrested that day on charges of assault, menacing and weapons possession. Leonard surrendered to police Monday and was slapped with the same charges.

