STATEN ISLAND
A father used his 3-year-old daughter as a shield to try to keep cops from arresting him in his Eltingville home, authorities said yesterday.
Officers, armed with a search warrant, entered the home on Richmond Avenue last Friday, searching for drugs.
Cops reported finding crack and six bottles of methadone.
Jerry Lugo, 36, tried to swallow heroin to keep cops from discovering it, authorities said. He also held up his little girl in front of the officers in an attempt to avoid being arrested.
Lugo was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.
His girlfriend, Gretchen Jacobs, 30, the mother of the child, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance.
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A man was struck and killed while crossing a Grant City street, police said yesterday.
The man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was struck as he crossed Hylan Boulevard near Allison Avenue at 9:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
The driver of the 2001 Nissan remained at the scene and was not issued any summonses.
The victim died at Staten Island University Hospital.
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A father and son were arrested after police executed a search warrant at their New Dorp Beach home and found drugs and guns, authorities said yesterday.
Cops discovered a .357-caliber revolver, a shotgun and a rifle that allegedly belonged to Julio Montalvo, 63, in the Hett Avenue home last Friday.
He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.
Julio Jr., 25, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
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A man was arrested after walking into a West New Brighton hospital dressed as a cop and claiming to be part of the “Brooklyn SWAT” team, investigators said.
Sherrieshe Jones, 50, who was wearing a security guard’s shield, bulletproof vest and blue police-uniform pants along with a gun belt and a police radio, told an officer from the 120th Precinct at Richmond University Hospital last Saturday that he, too, was a cop.
Jones was charged with criminal impersonation, the DA’s spokesman said.
MANHATTAN
Police have arrested a man who robbed a Chinatown jewelry store at gunpoint a year and a half ago, authorities said yesterday.
Dwayne Bouchen, 24, and two accomplices – all of whom claimed to be cops – held up the store on Canal Street on Feb. 10, 2006, police said.
One of the men told the victim, “Don’t worry, we’re the police,” before they jumped behind the counter and grabbed about $150,000 worth of jewelry, authorities said.
One of them allegedly hit the store owner in the head with a gun, leaving him permanently deaf.
Police are searching for the two other suspects.
Bouchen, a Brooklyn resident, was charged with robbery and criminal impersonation.
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A man jumped in front of a train at the Times Square station yesterday in an apparent suicide that disrupted service for more than an hour.
The 35-year-old man leaped into the tracks as a Queens-bound R train was entering the station at about 12:30 p.m.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
BROOKLYN
A teenager was stabbed in the back by a group of thugs on a Williamsburg street, police said yesterday.
The 16-year-old boy was walking along Union Avenue Sunday night when he was confronted by several young men who punched him. One also knifed him four times in the back.
The victim was treated at Bellevue Hospital and listed in stable condition.
QUEENS
A crazed would-be lover assaulted a woman yesterday after banging on her front door for hours and then forcing his way into her Jackson Heights residence, police sources said.
Krzyfztof Wroblewski, 43, believed that he and the woman were romantically involved, while she considered themselves merely acquaintances, the sources said.
Wroblewski knocked on the door of the woman’s 90th Street apartment from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. on Saturday, cops said.
When the knocking stopped, the woman opened the door and Wroblewski allegedly stormed inside. He then shoved her to the ground, grabbed her cellphone as she tried to call 911 and fled, police said.
Cops tracked him down yesterday and he was charged with burglary, robbery and assault. The victim was not injured.
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Two men held up a Whitestone grocery store at gunpoint, authorities said yesterday.
The pair, in their 20s and one with a gun, threatened an employee while waving a gun at the Late Night store on Parsons Boulevard near 14th Avenue Sunday evening, police said.
They took $1,200 from the register and fled.
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Two thieves broke a glass display case and took several watches from the Cosmos Department Store at 150th Street and Northern Boulevard in Flushing Saturday morning, cops said.
THE BRONX
Police are investigating a burglary at a Parkchester gas station.
An employee noticed that a safe had been broken into and an undetermined amount of cash was missing when he opened the Seven Star Fuel Corp. station on Zerega Avenue Friday morning, cops said.