The Bronx
Police this week nabbed a suspect, identified as 30-year-old Jairo Ramos, who along with a cohort is accused of assaulting and robꦿbing a taxi driver in Soundview. The 50-year-old victim was standing outside his cab at St. Lawrence Avenue and East 172nd Street at about 11:45 p.m. on Feb. 6 when the two suspects — allegedly exchanged words with the victim, then hit him in the face with a bottle and punched him in the head, cops said. When the victim fell to the ground, one assailant allegedly grabbed his jacket containing $1,000, and the pair fled. The cohort was arrested immediately after the assault, while🐬 Ramos, who lives in Soundview, was busted Tuesday, authorities said.
Brooklyn
Police are searching for the suspect in the alleged groping of a straphanger aboard a rush-hour 5 train. At about 9 a.m. on Feb. 12 on a Manhattan-bound train near Nevins Street, the groper slinked up behind a 26-year-old woman, squeezed her rear end and rubbed against her, the victim told law-enforcement authorities. He backed off when the grossed-out victim told him to get lost, according to the authoriꦍties, and exited the train. The man was described as about 5-foot-6 and approximately 60 years old. He was wearing a black North Face ski cap, investigators said.
Manhattan
Cops are looking for the suspect who walked into an Upper West Side women’s clothing store, threatened to shoot an employee and fled with the worker’s cash, authorities said. The man entered Shishi Boutique on Broadway near West 93rd Street at about 2:30 p.m. Thursday and asked a 34-year-old salesman for directions, police said. The suspect then asked for $50 and when the employee said no, the man snarled, “I have a gun and I’ll shoot you,” as he gestured like he had a firearm in his jacket, according to investigators. The suspect then reached into the victim’s pocket, grabbed a wallet containing $40 and fled east on West 92nd Street, cops said. The suspect was described as about 5-foot-6 and 150 pounds with short blac🦋k hair and a blotchy com🎉plexion, police investigators said. He was last seen wearing gray sweat pants, a fur-trimmed black jacket and a black Nike T-shirt, according to authorities.
Queens
Police are looking for the man who allegedly exposed and fondled himself in the presence of a woman on board an A train in Far Rockaway over the weekend. The 52-year-old victim said she boarded the train at the Mott Avenue terminal on Sunday at 7:55 a.m. and spotted a man with his hands down his pants. After she snapped a picture of the suspect, he all⛄egedly took his perversion to the next level and exposed himself. She said she then exited the train while he stayed on board. Cops describe the suspect as heavyset and in his 50s, and was last seen wearing a blue baseball cap and dark-colored sweat pants and sneakers.
A suspect attacked an MTA maintenance worker in a Jamaica subway station and destroyed his two-way radio, authorities said. The suspect, who was wheeling a bicycle, approached the 61-year-old worker in the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue station at about 7:45 a.m. on Feb. 14 and bizarrely demanded thꦡat the victim, who had never before laid eyes on the guy, give him back his cellphone, police said. When the victim said he didn’t have it, the cap-wearing suspect punched him in the face and wrestled away his two-way radio. The thug then walked up to the station mezzanine, smashed the radio and fled, cops said. Police described the man as about 5-foot-8 and 35 to 45 years old.