Queens
Two people were arre🗹sted in Middle Village after leaving a 3-year-old boy with more than $2,000 worth of illegal fireworks, cops said. Jason Rodriguez, 28, and ജTina Foley, 29, are charged with unlawful sale of fireworks and behaving in a manner injurious to a child, police said. They were nabbed last Thursday, according to authorities. The couple’s relationship to the child was unclear, police said.
A Little Neck woman was scammed out of more than $1,500 on Craigslist, cops said.The woman told cops on June 27 that she applied for a job which she was told would be hers if she wired $1,735, police said.
To help get her to wire the dough, the scam artist even sent the woman a check 🐟for $2,335 — which turned out to be fraudulent, cops said.
Brooklyn
A man with ཧa distinctive dye job stole a car from an East New York parking lot, cops said. The thief — seen here with a streak of﷽ orange in his hair — broke the lock off the front gate of the commercial parking lot on Stewart Street near Broadway on June 27 at around 1:30 p.m., cops said. He then hopped into a blue 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass sedan, police added. Cops described him as a black man last seen wearing purple shorts, black sneakers, a white T-shirt and a backpack.
Manhattan
A man swiped two cellphones from a delivery truck in Morningside Heights, authorities said. The bald-headed thief slipped into the cab of the Staples-store truck as workers made deliveries on West 116th Street near Amsterdam Avenue at around🦋 9:30 a.m. on June 19, cops said. He then fled the scene with a black backpack.
The Bronx
A man burglarized a B🥂aychester home last week, police said. He entered the residence near Muliner Avenue and Neill Avenue through the kitchen window at around 5 p.m., cops said. He then removed an unknown amount of jewelry, clothing and el꧙ectronics during the June 28 burglary, police said. The burglar was described as a white man, 20 to 30 years old, approximately 5-foot-9, weighing 160 pounds with a slim build. He was last seen wearing a red baseball cap, shorts, black sneakers, gray T-shirt and glasses.
A man broke into a Mott Haven building and ran off with a 55-inch television seꦍt, authorities said. The thief entered the building on Third Avenue at around 10:30 a.m. on June 14 and grabbe✤d the TV before fleeing, cops added.