The suspect (pictured above) can be seen firing a handgun at the men as they walked near Van Buren Street and Throop Avenue after an argument at about 10:20 p.m. on March 20.
Manhattan
Police yesterday released this photo of a ma🦩n accused of grabbing a 9-year-old gi♋rl’s butt on the Lower East Side.
The image was captured on surveillance camera at🎃 about 4:45 p.m. on April 14 at Avenue C and East 13th Street, police 𓄧sources said.
The suspect — in his 30s, about 5-foot-9 and 240 pounds, with graying black hair — wore a blue long-sleeved shirt, 🦋dark jeans a🃏nd white wire-rimmed glasses, cops said.
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When cops caught up with an infamous ex-con wanted for questioning in a c🀅arjacking from a West 14th Street parking garage, he confessed — explaining that he needed a getaway car for a bank robbery he was planning, police sources said.
Joseph Edward Stephens, 59, is a high-rolling gambler once featured on ꦛTV’s “America’s Most Wanted’’ for robbing 22 banks across the country and taunting cops by phone while on the run.
Stephens was sprung from federal prison on April 14 after serving 25 years for those heists — but less than two months lateꦡr, he allegedly handcuffed an Icon Parking Ga🅰rage worker at gunpoint and sped off in a stolen Toyota.
When caught in that car last week in Waldwick, NJ, during a routine street sweep, Stephens had on him a toy g💮un and $4,800 from a TD Bank branch in Oakland, NJ, that he had just held up, cops said.
He also was carryinඣg $300 found to have been stolen on April 12 from a Williamsburg cheese-factory worker who was left handcuffed, along with his teenage son, to a forklift, investigator💮s said.
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A 16-y🅷ear-old🅘 boy was arrested after groping three women in Central Park, authorities said.
Andrew Abdullah intercepted a jogge𒉰r on Cross and East drives at 5 p.m. Friday, asked her, “Wanna come to my party?” and then squeezed her rear end, witne𒉰sses told police.
One witness added that the teen had pulled the same trick on two other women just moments earlier, a law-enforcement🐈 source said.
Abdullah🥃 was charged withꦺ sexual abuse and harassment, sources said.
Brooklyn
Cops are looking for a man cau🏅ght on surveillance video shooting two men in Bedford-Stuyv🌳esant.
The suspect (pictured) can be seen firing a handgun at🌠 the men as they walked near Van Buren Street and Throop Avenue after an argument at about 10:20 p.m. on March 20.
One victim was wounded in a leg, th💧e other in 🐼the right arm and buttocks, cops said.
The suspect was described as 19🧜 or 20 years old and about 5-foot-9.
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A man wearing an NYPD jacke💮t robbed a deliveryman in Boro♚ugh Park, law-enforcement sources said.
The suspect opened the front door of an apartment building on 10th Avenue and Fort Hamilton Parkway as the victim arrived at a🧜bout 10🎉 p.m. Sunday, sources said.
The man allegedly waited for the worker to complete the delivery, then ambushed him at gunpoint in a stairwell while yelling, “Gimme the f—in’ money!”
The deliveryman handed over about $150 an🔴d ℱthe suspect ran off, investigators said.
The Bronx
A 22-year𓃲-old man𓆉 was gunned down on a Mott Haven street yesterday afternoon, authorities said.
Mark Williaꩲms was shot on East 140th Street near Willis Avenue at about 12:20 p.m., police said.
“I was double-parking my car, and I heard ༒about five shots,” a witness told detectives. “I saw a tan car pull up and swing the passenger door open. It then took off.”
EMTs rushed Williams to Lincoln Hospital, bu🦩t doctors ther𝄹e pronounced him dead.
No arrest had been made💙 as of last night, and investigators said the motive for the shooting was not immediately k𝐆nown.