MANHATTAN
A man was found shot to death in his car on a Bayside street, police said.
The 26-year-old man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was found inside a Ford Taurus parked at the corner of 206th Street and 23rd Avenue at 2:18 p.m. yesterday with a gunshot wound to his head.
Two thieves were busted for robbing a couple at gunpoint in Rego Park, police said yesterday.
James Flores, 37, and Erica Olivencia, 24, approached the pair as they sat in a parked car on 102nd Street at 62nd Road Friday night.
The suspects asked for cash and fired several shots without striking the victims.
Flores and Olivencia were later caught nearby.
A feisty young woman battled a teen mugger who ripped off her cellphone on an Upper West Side street, authorities said yesterday.
Ellen Hart, 24, was walking on West 81st Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue at 7:50 p.m. last Thursday when Monzon Buice, 17, allegedly accosted her from behind and swiped her phone.
As Buice tried to flee, Hart allegedly grabbed him and the two started wrestling, police said.
Buice eventually broke free and ran away as Hart gave chase, cops said.
During the pursuit, Buice allegedly ripped off his shirt to change his appearance and ran inside a movie theater.
When he came out a short time later, police were waiting and put him in handcuffs. He was charged with robbery, said a spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s Office.
A homeless man was arrested for beating and robbing an acquaintance on a Midtown street, authorities said yesterday.
Miguel Nazario, 34, and an accomplice came up behind their victim at West 58th Street and 10th Avenue at 9:50 p.m. last Thursday, police said.
The pair allegedly punched and kicked the victim, knocking him to the ground and removing $100 from his pocket.
Nazario fled, but was caught the next day and charged with second-degree robbery, the DA’s spokeswoman said. Police are searching for his cohort.
The victim suffered minor injuries.
A man held up a grocery store in Chinatown at gunpoint, police said yesterday.
The unidentified suspect, in his 20s and wearing a bandanna, threatened the storeowner with a gun and took an undisclosed amount of cash from the W&Y grocery store at Allen and Broome streets Sunday morning, police said. The man then fired several shots – without hitting anyone – after a witness tried to stop him, police said.
Cops have captured a thief who swiped jewelry and a laptop from an Upper East Side apartment, authorities said yesterday.
Raul Espino, 44, of East Harlem, was busted at 1 p.m. last Thursday and charged in the burglary of the apartment on East 89th Street near First Avenue, sources said.
At 6:15 p.m. on April 5, a 39-year-old woman returned to the apartment and noticed that several items were missing, including two watches, assorted jewelry and a titanium Macintosh laptop.
Police have tracked down a teenager who allegedly beat and clubbed a man outside a nightclub in the Flatiron District.
Vitaly Izrailovam, 19, confronted his 21-year-old victim at Madison Avenue and East 27th Street moments after the victim had left the club at 4 a.m. on Sept. 3, cops said.
For unknown reasons, Izrailovam allegedly pummeled the victim in the head and bashed him in the face with a pipe.
The injured man was treated for cuts at Bellevue Hospital.
It was unclear how police captured Izrailovam, but he was arrested last Thursday and charged with assault.
BROOKLYN
Five teens robbed and stabbed a deliveryman in Park Slope, police said yesterday.
Mario Brito, who works for Seventh Avenue Donuts, was delivering an order to a home on Seventh Street Sunday night.
When he reached the home, he noticed a young man standing near the entrance and thought he would be accepting the order. At that point, four other teens wearing black hoodies surrounded Brito and demanded his money, police said.
One of them cut the back of his ear and stole $70, two cellphones and two rings, Brito said.
“I’ve been doing this for a year and a half. I’ve never been scared, but now I do feel kind of scared,” Brito said.
He was treated at Lutheran Medical Center.
Police are searching for vandals who spray-painted gang slogans near the ice-skating rink at Prospect Park.
Cops found “Crips for life” spray-painted on a wall near Wollman Rink yesterday morning.
The group also broke into the rink; it was not immediately known if anything was stolen.
Two men allegedly attacked a man with aluminum bats in a fast-food shop in Bushwick.
Shaun Stewart, 33, and Taron Dunn, 26, confronted the victim in the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant at Lafayette Avenue and Broadway early Sunday morning.
They claimed that the 38-year-old victim had attacked their friend and then struck him repeatedly with the bats, police said.
A witness then called police, who later arrested Stewart and Dunn and found the bats.
They were charged with attempted murder, assault, menacing, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon.
STATEN ISLAND
A man was arrested in his Annadale home after police found more than a pound of marijuana there, authorities said yesterday.
Cops executing a search warrant uncovered a pound and a half of marijuana divided into several plastic bags while they searched the Carlton Boulevard home Friday afternoon.
They also found a switchblade and a gravity knife.
Dante Lipari, 50, was charged with criminal possession of marijuana and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.