Police Blotter
13th Precinct
Stuy Town rape try
A 20-year-old woman was almost
raped on the Stuyvesant Town grounds
early on the morning of Sat., June 29,
according to police.
Police said the victim was walking
in the vicinity of the Stuyvesant Oval at
5:10 a.m., when she was approached
from behind by a man, who grabbed
her by her neck. The victim resisted, but
the attacker choked her unconscious
and she fell to the ground. The attacker
then tried to sexually assault her, after
fi rst taking off her underwear, according
to the New York Post.
A male Samaritan came to the victim’s
aid and called 911, at which point
the assailant ran off. He was last seen
running west on 17th St. toward Second
Ave. The victim, who suffered
scrapes on her forehead, neck and elbows,
was transported by E.M.S. to an
area hospital for evaluation.
The suspect was wearing a blue shirt
and black jeans. Surveillance video
shows him walking northbound on
First Ave. and then turning right onto
E. 16th St. shortly before the incident.
Anyone with information is asked
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1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Tips can also
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entering TIP577. All tips are strictly
confi dential.
Fifth Precinct
Crushed in Chinatown
A man was crushed to death by a giant
safe in Chinatown on Sunday, police
said.
Around 4:37 p.m. on June 30, police
responded to a 911 call of a man
in need of rescue inside 76 Mott St.
Responding offi cers found an adult
male unconscious and unresponsive
on the third-fl oor landing. E.M.S. responded
and pronounced him dead at
the scene.
The New York Post reported that the
victim and two other men were attempting
to move the 600-to-800-pound safe
down a fl ight of stairs when they lost
control of it, according to police. The
safe fell down the stairs and pinned the
victim against the stairwell wall.
“Man was moving it from fourth
fl oor and it come down on him,” the
Post reported a witness saying.
Police released these images of the alleged Stuyvesant Town sexual
assault suspect.
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
The woman in the alleged bikestealing
duo.
One of the other men was also reportedly
injured and taken to Bellevue
Medical Center in serious condition.
Sixth Precinct
Wanted wallet
Police said that on June 27, a man entered
a deli at 476 Sixth Ave., between
W. 11th and 12th Sts., and approached
the counter, where he snatched a wallet
from an 84-year-old male victim’s hand
and fl ed. The wallet contained $182,
several credit cards and blank checks.
The suspect is described as a Hispanic
male with arm tattoos.
COURTESY N.Y.P.D.
Spirited theft
On Fri., June 14, at 3:28 a.m., a man
threw a rock through the front window
of Warehouse Wines and Spirits Liquor
Store, at 735 Broadway, between Astor
Place and Waverly Place, but didn’t
take any booze. Instead he removed
$82 worth of coffee display products
before fl eeing.
Police described the suspect as an
adult, around 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing
140 pounds, with a slim build, dark
complexion and short black hair. He
was last seen wearing a black hooded
sweatshirt and toting a blue satchel.
Ninth Precinct
Bottle slash
A dispute between two groups of
men in the East Village on Sat., June 8,
ended with one man getting slashed on
his face with a broken bottle. Police said
that at 3 a.m., the victim, 20, was walking
with two other male acquaintances
across from 25 E. Fourth St., near
the Merchant’s House Museum, when
they engaged in a dispute with another
group of males unknown to them. The
argument escalated from verbal into a
physical altercation, and one guy from
the second group who was holding a
glass bottle, broke it on the sidewalk
and slashed the victim on the right side
of his face. The victim was transported
by E.M.S. to Cornell Hospital in stable
condition. All the males fl ed the spot.
E. 6th burglary
Police said that on Wed., June 19, at
10:30 a.m., inside a residential building
in the vicinity of E. Sixth St. and
First Ave., an unidentifi ed man entered
a third-fl oor apartment through an unlocked
front door and removed a Dell
laptop and a Michael Kors watch before
fl eeing through the front door.
The suspect is described as Hispanic,
around 50 to 60 years old, with a light
complexion and gray hair.
10th Precinct
Ticked off over ticket
A woman was arrested for preventing
a traffi c enforcement agent from
writing a summons at 12th Ave. and W.
33rd St., according to police. On Fri.,
June 28, around 5:20 p.m., a 54-yearold
woman stood in front of the agent,
and took a summons off of a vehicle
and threw it onto the street. As she did
this, she continued to stand in his way
and prevent him from writing summonses.
Bonnie Ingram was arrested
for obstructing governmental administration,
a misdemeanor.
14th St. fracas
There was an assault in front of 205
W. 14th St., at Seventh Ave., last week,
according to a police report. On Sat.,
June 29, around 4:50 a.m., a 30-yearold
man got into an argument with a
stranger. The stranger punched him in
the face with a closed fi st, causing “substantial
pain, bleeding and redness,” according
to the report. Mark Nurse, 34,
was arrested for misdemeanor assault.
The bicycle thieves
A man and a woman stole bicycles in
two separate incidents, one of them in
Chelsea at Sid’s Bikes NYC, according
to police. The fi rst theft was on Thurs.,
April 25, around 4:25 p.m., inside the
Chelsea bike shop at 151 W. 19th St.,
between Sixth and Seventh Aves. The
man and woman checked out several bicycles
inside the store, then the woman
walked a pricey Cannondale bike to the
entrance. She then handed it off to the
man, and they both left the store with
the bike, which was worth $4,200.
The second incident was on Sun.,
April 28, around 3:05 p.m., police said.
A man left his specialized Tarmac bike
unlocked in front of Roy’s Sheepshead
Cycle, at 2679 Coney Island Ave., and
the same two suspects reportedly took
the $10,000 bike and left.
Lincoln Anderson
and Gabe Herman
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