STATEN ISLAND
A lawyer was arrested for driving while intoxicated and crashing his Cadillac near the 120th precinct station house in St. George, authorities said yesterday.
Christopher Trochiano, 38, was allegedly speeding and swerving in his 2007 Caddy before smashing into another car at 6:40 a.m. Saturday. He allegedly told the driver, “I’m sorry,” but then drove off without providing insurance information. Trochiano later told cops, “I drank two twisted teas,” authorities said.
The officers also reporting finding prescription drugs in the car.
Trochiano was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, according to District Attorney Daniel Donovan’s spokesman.
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Two thugs allegedly snatched a $2,000 gold chain from a man while he was sitting in his car.
John Mead, 28, and Joshua Reye, 31, confronted the victim in the parked car at Orange Avenue and Port Richmond Avenue Friday, police said They grabbed his chain and took off, authorities said.
Cops later arrested the pair and charged them with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.
MANHATTAN
This man is wanted for an attempted bank robbery in Greenwich Village, police said.
The bandit passed a note to a teller at the Chase branch on Broadway near Bleecker Street on July 14. The teller refused to give him anything and the would-be bandit fled.
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Two Harlem neighbors were arrested for attacking a woman with a hammer, authorities said.
Tara Hodges, 38 and Gregory Mays, 34, had been involved in a weeklong dispute with the 39-year-old victim, police said. They allegedly attacked her near their West 114 Street home last Thursday. They were charged with assault.
The victim was in stable condition.
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Cops are searching for a woman who allegedly fired a shot at her ex-boyfriend after running into him in Harlem.
The suspect – whose name was withheld – and with five men confronted the victim at West 139th Street near Fifth Avenue at 5 a.m. Sunday, police said.
The woman fired one shot, just missing her ex’s foot, and the men punched him in the face, cops said. The thugs also took his cellphone and keys, police said. He was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital.
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A man was attacked and robbed by a group of muggers in Harlem, police said yesterday.
The thieves accosted the 20-year-old man at West 134th Street and Amsterdam Avenue early Sunday, cops said. They punched him and took his iPod and a gold bracelet.
The victim was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
BROOKLYN
Cops are on the lookout for two thugs who stabbed a man to death on a Lower East Side.
Yency Araujo, 22, was with a friend when they got into an argument with a man and his cohort at Rocket Joe’s Pizza at 61 Delancey St. on July 6.
The victim and his pal had just left the pizzeria when they were confronted again by the two thugs on Delancey near Orchard Street, where Araujo was stabbed.
A man was fatally shot in Midwood yesterday.
Cops responding to 911 calls found Brian Beckom, 30, with two gunshot wounds to his chest at Flatbush Avenue and Avenue H at 2:30 a.m. Beckom – who has an arrest record for burglary and menacing – was pronounced dead by paramedics.
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A thug was arrested for robbing a man on a Brownsville subway platform yesterday morning, police said.
Dominick Moore, 18, approached the victim at the Broadway Junction station shortly after 3 a.m. and asked if he had any money or marijuana, cops said. When the victim refused to give him anything, Moore allegedly punched him the face. The teen then took off with the victim’s hat, sunglasses and $20, police said.
Cops later caught Moore, who had remained at the station, and charged him with assault, menacing, robbery and harassment.
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A woman was arrested for throwing perfume bottles at an East Flatbush store clerk, investigators said.
Lunique Menard, 23, attempted to return pants, shoes and a shirt to the clothing store on Utica Avenue near Linden Boulevard Saturday afternoon, but the sales clerk would not accept the items.
Menard allegedly threatened not to leave until the clothes were taken back and her money was returned.
She then threw the bottles at the employee, striking the victim in the leg, cops said.
She was charged with assault, menacing and criminal mischief.
BRONX
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding this High Bridge man , who vanished three months ago. Reda Hussain, 44, has not been seen since he left his Undercliff Avenue home on April 20 for a trip to Atlantic City, according to police and his brother Sabry Hussain. “He’s friendly with everybody. We don’t know what happened,” Sabry said.
Reda Hussain works in maintenance for a Midtown law firm. He has brown hair and brown eyes, stands 5-foot-4 and weighs 200 pounds.