QUEENS
A home-health aide was nabbed for stealing child-support cash meant for the autistic child she cares for, authorities said yesterday.
On May 23, Juanita Phillips, 39, allegedly deposited into her personal checking account a $9,916 check made out to her patient’s 48-year-old mother with the promise of withdrawing it and giving the woman the amount in cash, law-enforcement sources said.
Phillips did not keep her pledge and avoided the victim by refusing to come back to work and ignoring the woman’s phone calls, the sources said.
An internal Citibank investigator confirmed the victim’s claims and Phillips was arrested Thursday, authorities said.
She is charged with grand larceny, according to a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.
THE BRONX
An off-duty correction officer was collared for drunken driving in Mott Haven early yesterday, police said.
Rosario Matos, 50, who works on Rikers Island, was stopped on Third Avenue near East 138th Street at 12:40 a.m., cops said.
It was not clear why Matos was pulled over or if he took a Breathalyzer test, but police charged him with driving while intoxicated.
STATEN ISLAND
Two New Jersey brothers were busted for bribing a former Westerleigh pet-store manager with a motorcycle and a purebred Yorkshire terrier in exchange for $44,000 worth of merchandise, authorities said yesterday.
David Fox, 48, and Richard Fox, 56, allegedly gave Michael Warren, 43, the gifts between March 5 and July 4, 2006, when he worked at a PetSmart on Forest Avenue, law-enforcement sources said.
Warren allegedly granted the Fox brothers access to registers and the store’s computer system and allowed them to use coupons that were either not valid or not for products sold in his store.
The Fox brothers are charged with grand larceny, falsifying business records and commercial bribing, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.
Warren, arrested in April, is facing charges of grand larceny and falsifying business records.
A man pulled over for a loud muffler and illegal window tint in New Dorp was arrested after cops discovered he was carrying nearly a dozen New York state vehicle-inspection stickers, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
Amr Elgaly, 20, was stopped at the corner of Rose Avenue and Clawson Street when cops heard his green Saturn’s exhaust system and noticed the dark windshield at 1:30 a.m. Friday, authorities said.
When asked for his license and registration, 11 inspection stickers fell out of his wallet.
He told the officers he was not a mechanic, but found them in a shop and had plans to sell them.
He is charged with criminal possession of stolen property and unauthorized possession of inspection certificates, a Donovan spokesman said.
Cops nabbed two men in a suspected drug deal in West Brighton, authorities said yesterday.
Detectives in an unmarked car saw Jemal Lewis, 17, and Isa Martin, 24, together on Caroline Street at 1:35 a.m. Thursday. When they walked over to confront the pair, the duo fled into a building on Caroline Street, law-enforcement sources said.
Lewis was nabbed behind the building with six plastic bags of crack. Martin was eyed tossing a loaded .357 Magnum handgun out a rear window and was arrested when he jumped out the same window, authorities said.
Martin is charged with two counts of weapons possession and Lewis is charged with drug possession, said a Donovan spokesman.