BROOKLYN
* Cops say this man beat and tore the clothes off a young woman in her Bedford Stuyvesant apartment building.
Derrick Chirse (above), 45, left his 18-year-old victim unconscious in a stairwell of the building on Malcolm X Boulevard on June 11th, police sources said.
* Bank customers chased down a thief in Gravesend after he threatened a teller and ran out with $3,000, authorities said yesterday.
The incident began, when James Boccanfuso, 28, walked into the Independence branch on Avenue U at McDonald Avenue at 3:40 p.m. Monday and passed a note that read, “I have a gun. Pass me $10,000 or I will hurt someone in the bank very serious.”
After the teller handed him $3,000, sources said, Boccanfuso fled, with several customers in pursuit.
Two blocks away, the customers grabbed Boccanfuso and held him until police arrived, but not before he tossed his backpack with the stolen cash into a livery car that drove off, witnesses told cops.
* Two men were arrested in Flatbush on charges they attacked each other, authorities said yesterday.
Produce-store owner Rodolfo Cruz, 33, told cops David Gumbel walked into his Flatbush Avenue shop near Linden Boulevard and tried to sell him a DVD player at 7:43 p.m. Monday, sources said.
The storeowner said he declined the offer, prompting Gumbel to use the movie player to bash Cruz on the head, sources say.
Gumbel, 42, told cops he reacted only after Cruz cursed at him and made a racial remark. Cruz then slashed Gumbel with a machete, Gumbel told police.
A cop driving by saw the altercation and arrested both men.
* A 70-year-old pedestrian suffered severe head injuries when she was clipped by a van in Borough Park yesterday, police said.
Zena Berkowitz was crossing 46th Street at Fort Harmilton Parkway around 10 a.m. when the driver, identified by police sources as Miroslaw Wdowiak, 29, hit her as he was making a left turn.
Berkowitz was taken to Lutheran Hospital in serious condition. Police said the driver did not receive a summons. (s, lcf)
* Cops are searching for Darion Owens (above), 14, who disappeared from her Howard Avenue apartment in Brownsville on June 28, authorities said yesterday. She is 5-foot-4 and 120 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
QUEENS
* A woman died in a Kew Gardens courthouse holding cell of an apparent heart attack yesterday after she was arrested for allegedly slugging a woman during a robbery, police said.
Collen Manza, 49, had been awaiting arraignment on burglary and assault charges and had been in the cell for several hours before she collapsed.
Police said Manza was arrested after breaking into a friend’s apartment on 78th Street at 6 a.m. Tuesday. She allegedly slugged her friend during the robbery. (s, lcf)
* A handyman was arrested for molesting a woman in her Flushing apartment, authorities said yesterday.
Garcia Hernandez, 46, allegedly grabbed the 43-year-old woman in her Roosevelt Avenue apartment at 11 a.m. Tuesday, sources said.
He was arrested later that day on charges of burglary, forcible touching and sexual abuse.
STATEN ISLAND
* A man caught setting off illegal fireworks in Great Kills assaulted cops who tried to arrest him, authorities said yesterday.
Police saw Jason Capotosto, 23, lighting the fireworks near a crowd of 15 people at Leverett and Richmond avenues at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, sources said.
When cops asked him for ID, Capotosto began cursing and, as the officer tried to cuff him, allegedly elbowed the cop and shoved him to the ground, sources said. As the tussle continued, Capotosto grabbed the cop’s shield and ripped it from his neck.
Capotosto was charged with reckless endangerment, unlawfully dealing with fireworks and assault.
* Two youths were arrested for snatching a Playstation after using a ruse to gain the confidence of their victims outside the Staten Island Mall, authorities said yesterday.
Shawn Johnson, 19, and Jaime Waldo, 20, approached two brothers outside the mall and asked them to sign a petition for a high-school baseball team.
Johnson then asked to see the gaming device and walked away with it.
The brothers notified police, who arrested the suspects nearby, charging them with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property and fraudulent accosting.
MANHATTAN
* An off-duty correction officer was arrested on DWI charges early yesterday in the East Village, police said. Police caught Tony Smith, 40, driving drunk at Houston Street and the FDR Drive at 12:20 a.m., cops said.
* A man was stabbed outside a SoHo nightclub early yesterday after a large group got into a violent argument, authorities said.
A 20-year-old clashed with 12 to 15 people at 2 a.m. near Hudson and Broome streets, cops said.
One of the combatants pulled a knife and stabbed the victim three times in the back.
The suspect fled and the wounded man was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital. (m)