The Bronx
Police released this sketch of a suspect in a Bedford Park subway groping. In the early-morning hours of Nov. 29, a 22-year-old woman dozing aboard a northbound D train awoke to find a pervert violating her. She shoved him away and fled at the Bedford Park Boulevard ꦜstation. She alerted cops, who developed the sketch from her description.
Manhattan
The creep suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in a Kips Bay housing project on Thanksgiving is in custody, police said Thursday. Dominique Frazier, 31, was captured last Saturday and charged with criminal sex act, robbery and the attempted rape of the 48-year-old victim in the Strauss Houses. Frazier allegedly forced her into a 17♑th-floor stairwell in the building on East 28th Street near First Avenue near midnight on Nov. 26 and forced her to perform a sex act on him. He then tried to rape her but she fought back. Frazier finally snatched the victim’s purse and fled, police said. With the help of a Samaritan, the woman chased down the s𒁃uspect and grabbed back her bag, but he managed to slip away. She was treated at Bellevue Hospital.
Investigators released a surveillance photograph of a man suspected of installing a bank-card-skimming device on an ATM at a Midtown McDonald’s. A technician working on the machine at the Golden Arches on Third Avenue near East 50th Street on Aug. 20 discജovered the device and alerted authorities. After removing the skimmer and reviewing surveillance footage, cops identified the man seen above as a suspect. He was described as about 5-foot-11 and 220 pounds.
A numbskull was busted for head-butting a cop trying to break up a fight in Midtown, authorities said. Troy Willi💙ams, 34, allegedly attacked the officer moving in to stop a brawl at West 48th Street and Eighth Avenue at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday. The hardheaded suspect bashed his noggin into the officer’s face, police said. Williams was arrested and charged with felony assault of a police officer. The cop was treated fꦗor a split lip.
A nutjob smashed a straphanger in the face with a half-eaten chocolate-candy bar in a bizarre assault on a Times Square subway platform, police sources said.Without apparent provocation, Eliexer Reyes, 35, jammed the candy into the mouth of 33-year-old Ian Sklarsky, who was waiting for a southbound Q train at 42nd Street just after midnight Wednesday, sources said. Sklarsky chased after Reyes, but then the confection-clutching creep punched him repeatedly, leaving him with a black eye, split lip and sore ribs. Cops busted Reyes fleeing the station, and he was charged with assault and harassment. The career criminal, wh𝓰o has more than 20 prior busts, was being held on $500 bail late Thursday. Reached at his Brooklyn home, Sklarsky said, “Better a Snickers than a gun.”
Queens
Two robbers knocked over a Hollis cellphone store at gunpoint, police sources said. The thieves ordered a manager at the T-Mobile store on Jamaica Avenue near Francis Lewis Boulevard to hand over money and phones at about 7 p.m. Wednesday. While on robber acted as a lookout, his cohort pointed a weapon at the worker and forced him to fill a bag with cash and digital devices. No one was𝄹 injured. Detailed physical descriptions of the suspects weren’t immediately available, investigators said.
Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Jamaica resident who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and burned her body in their apartment in October. Carlos Leon Pineda, 27, was extradited to New York after his Nov. 4 arrest in Miami, Fla., and charged with murder, arson, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evide🥂nce. At 4 a.m. on Oct. 17, Pineda allegedl🌠y torched the body of 28-year-old Miriam Velez-Samayoa in the bathtub of the third-floor apartment they shared with other immigrants on 90th Avenue near 148th Street. Arriving cops found Velez-Samayoa’s smoldering body doused in fuel, and a gas canister in Pineda’s bedroom. The victim’s brother-in-law, 32-year-old Roberto Castro, told The Post in October that Pineda and Velez-Samayoa had met a few months earlier via Facebook. Despite initial tips that Pineda had fled the country, the NYPD’s Warrant Squad tracked him to Miami in November.