The Bronx
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Cops are looking for two robbers (one pictured at right) accused of threatening a livery cabby with a hammer and taking his car in Williamsbridge.
The thugs got into the cab at East 163rd Street and Southern Boulevard at about 6:20 a.m. last Saturday and asked to be taken to Duncomb and Barker avenues.
There, the suspects (left) put the 52-year-old man in a chokehold and menaced him with a hammer, cops said.
The men forced the victim out of his 2003 gray Lincoln, took $400 and his cellphone and drove off in the vehicle, cops said.
One suspect is believed to be in his 30s, and the other in his 40s. Both are about 5-foot-6 and were last seen wearing baseball caps, T-shirts and jeans.
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A heartless punk who robbed a Belmont toddler of bling last month was busted again — this time for fare-beating, cops said.
Abubakarr Payinkay, 18, of Claremont, missed his court appearance Thursday after he was arrested that morning for fare evasion, authorities said.
Payinkay stepped onto a Bx6 bus through the rear door at about 9:50 a.m. Thursday in Morrisania at East 163rd Street and Third Avenue, authorities said.
He got caught, and an officer issued him a desk-appearance ticket for obtaining transit without pay, authorities said.
The thug had allegedly snatched a bracelet from a 4-year-old boy on Aug. 3 on East 182nd Street in Belmont, cops said.
The crook allegedly followed the boy, who was walking home with his 14-year-old sister, then robbed him in their apartment-building stairwell.
The robber was busted the following day on charges of robbery, endangering the welfare of a child and grand larceny, and released on his own recognizance, according to authorities.
He now faces the summons as well — and his next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 21.
Brooklyn
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Maybe he just wanted to clean up his act.
Salah Rahman, 52, was busted for trying to swipe four bottles of laundry detergent in Gowanus at about 10 a.m. on Aug. 21, police sources said.
Rahman grabbed the attention of a warehouse manager after allegedly stuffing four bottles of Tide in his pockets at Jetro Cash and Carry on Hamilton Avenue, sources added.
The manager stopped Rahman in the parking lot, retrieved $24 worth of suds and held him for cops, who arrested the thief for attempted petit larceny, sources said.
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Cops are looking for a portly perp who robbed a store at gunpoint in Bay Ridge, then tried but failed to rob a Carroll Gardens store.
The suspect (pictured above) pulled a gun on an employee in a bodega at Bay Ridge and Fourth avenues at about 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 23, cops said.
He demanded money and ran off with a handful of cash, police added.
That evening, he demanded money from a clerk at a deli near Kane and Hicks streets at about 9:20, cops said.
Video showed one victim trying to fend off the gunman with a stool.
The suspect is believed to be in his late 20s, 5-foot-8 and about 210 pounds with black hair.
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A home health-care aide took care of herself by looting an elderly Midwood man’s bank account of more than $100,000, authorities said.
Celeste Ross, 55, earned between $400 and $500 a week to care for an 86-year-old man with senile dementia on East 12th Street near Avenue N, sources said.
From August 2009 through August of last year, she allegedly wrote herself checks ranging from $700 to $6,000, sources added.
She turned herself in Tuesday and was charged with grand larceny.
Queens
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A man shot last month in St. Albans died this week, police said.
Patrick Munroe, 41, took several bullets to the chest at 111-20 Merrick Blvd. at 11:15 p.m. on Aug. 6. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition and died Thursday, police said.
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Cops are asking for the public’s help in finding the Corona bank robber pictured above.
He strolled into the New York Commercial Bank on Junction Boulevard near Roosevelt Avenue at about 4 p.m. Wednesday and threatened a teller.
He got cash and fled on foot, police said.
He’s believed to be in his 40s, about 5-foot-7 and 170 pounds, with a salt-and-pepper beard.
He wore gold-frame aviator sunglasses, a red T-shirt over a white, long-sleeved shirt, tan cargo shorts, white sneakers and white cotton gloves.