Manhattan
A Times Square desnuda was arrested for shoving a cop trying to handcuff her boyfriend, authorities said. Police officers had to wrestle painted lady Amanda Roman, 24, to the ground as she tussled with them, investigators said. Roman — wearing just a bikini bottom and pink stockings — had tried to keep officers from cuffing boyfriend Christopher Olivieri, 25, police said. He had gotten in the face of a boorish passer-by who was berating Roman as she was working posing with tourists at Seventh Avenue and West 43rd Street at about 8 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. Police officers on foot patrol came over and tried to break up the heated argument between the boyfriend and the b🎃oor, and repeatedly instructed Olivieri to calm down. But when he continued raging on, they began cuffing him, police said. Roman then grew heated herself, trying to thwart the arrest by shoving one of the officers, investigators said. The cops struggled to♛ get the feisty desnuda in custody, too, but soon got the situation under control. After a few minutes, Roman calmed down and was later seen flashing a big smile at a person taking her picture as she stood handcuffed against a police patrol car. It wasn’t known if she received her customary tip from that picture taker. Roman and Olivieri were slapped with charges of resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, with the boyfriend also being hit with disorderly-conduct and pot-possession raps.
Police are searching for a serial pervert who allegedly exposed himself to several women onboard subway trains in lower Manhattan, police sources said. Kenneth Wiley, a convicted burglar who was paroled in December, is wanted for public lewdness. He allegedly fondled himself on at least five occasions between March and May on the E and 1 trains. Some of the women captured images of the suspect in the act, inv🍎estigators said.
Queens
Police are looking for the suspect who stole $100 from a taxi driver. Cops say the victim picked up the suspect in Brooklyn and drove him to a store at 112th Street and Liberty Avenue in Richmond Hill T๊uesday afternoon. The man asked the driver to wait while he ducked into a store for a minute, authorities said. Upon returning, the suspect put an unknown object to the victim’s head and demanded money, and fled with $100, investigators said.
Authorities have charged an apparently suicidal man who was shot by police when he pulled a gun in Queens Village, and bit one of them as he was being cuffed, authorities said. Ramell Lockwood, 34, was pulled over after blowing through red lights along 217th Street near Hollis Avenue at 11 p.m. Wednesday, investigators said. As one cop leaned into the suspect’s window during the traffic stop, Lockwood put the car in gear and dragged🐼 him a few feet while screaming “I’m ready to die,” police said The suspect pulled a gun and refused cops’ command to drop it, and the officers shot him in the leg, investigators said. During the arrest, the suspect bit a cop, who was not seriously injured. The suspect was hospitalized in stable condition. He was charged with assault, weapon possession, menacing, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest.
The Bronx
Cops are looking f🥃or a man who groped a woman in Van Nest. Police say the vic♏tim, 49, was in the rear of a building at Van Nest Avenue and Van Buren Street Tuesday night when the suspect sneaked up from behind, grabbed her by the waist, fondled her and fled, investigators said. He’s described as in his late 20s, about 5-foot-6 and 180 pounds, and was last seen in a white hoodie, black jeans and black boots, and carrying a red knapsack.
A mortally wounded stabbing victim took his killer’s identity to the grave, using his last breath to curse out cops instead helping them ID the attacker, sources said. Daniel Pena was stabbed at least twice in the chest in the courtyard of a building on Decatur Avenue near Bedford Park Boulevard at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, cops said. As EMTs worked on the 23-year-old victim, cops tried to get him to identify his attacker. He responded by saying “F–k you,” a law-enforcement source said. Pena then lost consciousness and died a short time later at St. Barnabas Hospital. No arrests have been made.