The Bronx
A gunman opened fire on a South Bronx strip club,š¶ sending patrons anā±d passers-by scurrying for cover, police revealed Sunday.
The shooter was caught on surveillance video walking past Sin Cityź¦ on Park Avenue,š« between the Major Deegan Expressway and East 138th Street, at around 3:10 a.m. Christmas Day, when he turned and fired several shots into the front entrance of the jiggle joint, according to police.
No one was injured, but the video, releasedź¦ Sunday, shows bystanders running for their lives and divinšg underneath cars before the unidentified shooter fled.
Queens
Cops nabbed two graffiti vaš¦ndals who tagged a subway car in Richmond Hill, officials said.
Sgt. Jimmy Conwell, Detectļ·½ive Christopher Diaz and Officer Anthony DāAscanio, were patrolling the subway station at Jamaica Avenue and 111th Street just after midnight Saturday when they spotted Tommy Martinez, 19, and Jeremy Cautin, 21, sitting on a bench near a J-train car that had just been vandalized, cops said.
Diaz noticed Martinez trying to close a backpack with spray-paint cans inside, while Cautin had one green latex glove and a can of spray paint protruding from his jacket pocket, acź¦°cording to police.
The three plainclothes members of the Transit Bureauās Vandalās Task Force say Martinez painted āFEALā in letters that were 10 ā±feet wide and nearly 4 feet high on the subway car while Cautin acted as a lookout.
Both men were charged with criminal mischief, making graffiti, possession of graffiti instrumenšts and trespass, police saiź¦ŗd.
Brooklyn
A city Department of Sanitation worker was pulled over for a traffic violation in East New York and wound up under arrest on a weapons-possession charge, aššccording to officials.
Dandy Montalvo, 35, was driving his 2006 Pontiac with no taillights at around 12:20 a.m. Sunday, when he illegally passeād another car on the right, police said.
Officerās pulled him over and found he had a knife in the car and was driving without insurance, policeš said.
Montalvo was charged with insufficient taillightš¤Ŗs, passing a vehicle on the rightš¦, driving without insurance and weapon possession.
Three suspects are wanted in connection with the murder of a bodega worker in East New York, according to pšolice.
Video surveillance releasš®ed Saturday night shows the first suspect unlocking the door of the 797 Deli Grocery ą¼at Stanley Avenue and Cleveland Street on Friday morning.
The first suspect is seen entering š§the deli šøand returning with his head hung low and a black plastic bag in his hand.
A second man then walks into the store and exits a short time later with an unidentified objectšÆ in his hand.
A third suspect stands lookout on the corner.
Soon after the men were caught on tape, copsš found deli worker Hisham Zidan, 55, dead inside the bodegaās bathroom with cuts and bruises on his head.
The cash register was on theš° floor with change scattered around it.
The storeās security system was missing, bšŗut the suspects were captured on a surveillance system nearby, according to police.
Manhattan
A Fairway employee has been charged with the murder of a co-worker and friend who was stabbed to death outside the supermarketās warehouse in Manhattanville, police saiād.
Jovanny Paulino, 25, was šslapped with charges of second-degree murder and felony assault, cops said.
Paulino was in an argument with pal Pedro Miguel Payero Valerio, 22, at the wholesale grocery outlet on 12th Avenue near West 135th Street at around ā1:45 p.m. Saturday,š· cops said.
The fight continued across the street, āin front of the Hudson River Cafe, where Paulino pulled out a knife and stabbeš d the victim in the chest, cops said.
Valerio was rushed to St. Lukeāš s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.