NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN
* Police yesterday released a photo of a second man wanted in a double murder at a Washington Heights apartment last month.
The suspect, Jarvis “Taz” Cromwell, 25, (above) and Koren Stanley, 24, knocked on the front door at 550 W. 158th St. about 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 17, sources said.
Tonya Smith, 45, let in the two men because she knew Stanley, who once rented a room in her apartment, sources said.
Stanley allegedly pulled a gun and shot Smith and William Harley, 60, in the head.
Stanley fired shots through a bedroom door, hitting a 20-year-old man in the shoulder, sources said.
The wounded man fled down a fire escape. A police source said the shooting resulted from a dispute between Stanley and the wounded man.
Police arrested Stanley in Albany on Jan. 26 and charged him with murder.
Cromwell was described as 5-foot-9, 160 pounds, with brown eyes, black hair and a medium build.
* A man was arrested on an assault charge after he stabbed a male acquaintance during a lover’s quarrel in Central Park, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The suspect, Walter Rosario, 41, exchanged angry words with Droi Ramon, 35, at West 77th Street and the East Drive about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, a source said.
Another source said it was “a love quarrel over an act performed or a nonpayment for services.”
Rosario allegedly knifed Ramon, who was treated for a leg wound at New York Hospital.
Rosario was charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession.
BROOKLYN
* Burglars broke into two Brooklyn stores on three occasions and snatched thousands of dollars in cellphones, police and the stores’ owner said yesterday.
The suspects first struck sometime between 3 p.m. on Jan. 22 and 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 23, when they forced their way into a vacant store at 6333 Ave. N and smashed a hole in a wall dividing it from J & J Cellular Phones next door, cops said.
The burglars entered J & J and grabbed more than $6,000 worth of equipment, cops said.
The two other burglaries occurred on Feb. 8 and this past Monday at a J & J store at 9611 Glenwood Road, according to cops and storeowner Jeff Glickman, who also owns the Avenue N store.
Glickman said the burglars made off with more than 100 phones.
* A worker was arrested for beating a man in a road-rage incident in Canarsie in December, authorities said yesterday.
The violence began at 4 p.m. on Dec. 16, when a tow-truck driver sideswiped a vehicle driven by the 20-year-old victim at an undisclosed Brooklyn location.
The victim followed the tow-truck driver to A1A Towing at 8013 Preston Court.
The two men began arguing there while the suspect, Jessie Crawford, 41, who works at A1A, joined in.
The dispute escalated when the tow-truck driver and Mitchell began beating the victim.
Mitchell then used a bat to smash the victim in the face, breaking his jaw, sources said. The suspects fled.
Police caught Crawford on Tuesday, on charges of assault and menacing.
THE BRONX
* A man was shot dead yesterday by a gunman who accosted him on a Tremont street, police said.
Kevin Cherry, 20, was standing outside an apartment building at 2378 Webster Ave. at 8:30 p.m. when four unidentified men approached and one pulled a handgun, cops said.
The gunman then shot Cherry in the stomach.
The suspects then fled in a waiting SUV, which sped off northbound on Webster Avenue.
Cherry was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died. Police said Cherry had a criminal history, the details of which were not available.
STATEN ISLAND
* A Fox Hills man has been arrested for sexually attacking a female acquaintance in his apartment last month, authorities said yesterday.
Ogochukwu Okowne, 45, was charged with rape and sexual abuse on Tuesday after the victim reported the incident to police on Feb 8.
The victim, a woman in her 40s, told cops Okowne lured her to his Park Hill Avenue apartment on Jan. 14 after promising to help her find a job. There, Okowne raped her, according to a criminal complaint.
But Okowne told investigators he had consensual sex with the victim, and claimed she filed the complaint because he wouldn’t marry her.


