Police Blotter
Sixth Precinct
13th St. stabbing
Police are searching for
a suspect believed to have
stabbed a 38-year-old
man near the corner
of W. 13th St. and
Broadway around
6:40 p.m. on Feb.
20.C
ops say the alleged
stabber approached
the victim
and then jabbed
him once in the
torso with a cutting
instrument. E.M.S.
medics responded to
the scene and transported
the victim to the hospital,
where he was treated
and released.
The alleged attacker is described
as a Hispanic male with
curly or wavy hair, wearing a black
jacket, black jeans and tan boots.
Anyone with information is asked to
call the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers
Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)
or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
Tips can also be submitted on the
CrimeStoppers Web site at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.
COM, on Twitter
@NYPDTips or by texting to 274637
(CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All tips
are strictly confi dential.
‘Punches girlfriend’
Police have arrested a local actor for
allegedly punching his 39-year-old girlfriend
in the left eye during an argument
sometime between 4:40 p.m. and 5:15
p.m. on Sun., March 31, in their W. 10th
St. apartment. The woman was reportedly
left with a black eye and intense pain.
William Geberth, 43, was arrested at the
scene.
Whole Foods scam
Two employees at the Whole Foods
Market on 14th St. between University
Place and Broadway have been arrested
for allegedly carrying out a months-long
scheme to make money through fraudulent
returns at the store by using old receipts.
Ashley M. Harvey, 22, and Cecely
Reyes, 27, reportedly stole $3,287 from
the place between Sat., Oct. 13, and
Tues., March 26. The two women were
arrested March 26.
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
This man allegedly stabbed a man
on 13th St., according to police.
Phony phone sales
A 24-year-old employee at Russell
Cellular, a Verizon Wireless
retailer, at 154 W. 14th St.,
was arrested Tues., March
26, for stealing $6,070
worth of electronics on
Tues., March 5, between
3 p.m. and 5:30
p.m., police said.
The store says Elijah
Alexandra, who
is no longer employed
by the shop,
made up multiple
false transactions
over that period and
stole three iPads, 12
iPhones, 3 Samsung
phones and a personal
hotspot.
Teen caffeine
team
Police arrested a 15-year-old on Mon.,
March 25, for allegedly attempting to
break into Blackstone Coffee Roasters,
at 502 Hudson St., near Christopher St.,
shortly before midnight on Fri., March
15. He and another teen are accused of
repeatedly kicking the front door and
cracking it before fl eeing the scene.
Fifth Precinct
Big Mac
attack
Police said that on
March 25, at 10:25
a.m., a 33-year-old
male was sitting
inside the McDonald’s
at 262 Canal
St., between Lafayette
St. and Broadway,
when a woman
who was unknown
to him began making
anti-Hispanic statements
at him. The woman then
picked up a chair and struck
the man on the face with it.
The attacker then fl ed the location
and tried to get into the Canal
St. train station but was unable to get
past the turnstile.
The victim was removed to the New
York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan
Hospital for a contusion to his face.
The suspect is described as white,
around 35 to 45 years old, 5-feet-2-inches
tall and weighing 180 pounds. Anyone
with information should contact the
CrimeStoppers Hotline. (See “13th St.
stabbing” item, above.)
Seventh Precinct
Body in water
Police said that on Thurs., March 21,
just after 6 p.m., police responded to
a 911 call of a person in the water near
the Williamsburg Bridge. Upon arrival,
Harbor Unit offi cers recovered an unconscious
and unidentifi ed male from the
water. The man was transported to the E.
23rd St. pier and was pronounced dead
by E.M.S. The city’s Medical Examiner
will determine the cause of death and the
investigation is ongoing.
On April 3, a police spokesperson said
the man was 31 and decomposed, but he
could not provide more details. He said
police, per protocol, are not releasing the
man’s name because they have not yet located
family members to notify them of
the man’s death.
First Precinct
Luxe crooks
Police arrested Anibal Zaldivar,
60, on March 30 in connection
with two recent Soho store
robberies.
The fi rst occurred
Sat., March 23, around
3:15 p.m. at luxury
consignment shop
The RealReal, at 80
Wooster St. Police
said he and an elderly
black woman
walked into the
store together and
grabbed a $1,145
pair of Gucci shoes
from a display and hid
them in her shoulder
bag before leaving. The
incident went unreported
for six days.
On Sun., March 24, at the
Polo Ralph Lauren store on
109 Prince St. around 6:45 p.m.,
the man is alleged to have taken two
sweaters and two pair of jeans from a
shelf, concealing them and fl eeing north
on Greene St. The stolen goods were
worth a total of $1,186.
Rico Burney
and Lincoln Anderson
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
Police say this woman shouted
anti-Hispanic insults at a man,
then clocked him with a chair at
the Canal St. McDonald’s.
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