Help find him
Cops are asking the public’s help in finding a seven-year-old foster child who’s been missing from Spring Creek since January 22.
Officials said that little Patrick Alford was last seen leaving the lobby of his Vandalia Avenue home at 9 p.m. after threatening to run away.
The 4’8”, 65-pound child, who was last seen wearing a red T-shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers, hasn’t been located as this paper went to press.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is urged to come forward.
Calls can be made to the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Teen terrors
Cops have arrested four teenagers allegedly responsible for a Sunday afternoon home invasion on Avenue M.
Police said that 17-year-old Forrestor Rushid, 18-year-old Antonio Williams, 18-year-old Sebastian Villaire and 16-year-old Kareem Cato allegedly forced their way into a home near East 96th Street armed with a pistol at 2:40 p.m. on January 24.
The suspects reportedly roughed up a young man inside and ran off, but not before they threw their victim down a flight of stairs.
Their escape was cut short, however. Cops from the 69th Precinct rounded up and arrested the teens after a short search. All were charged with burglary, assault, menacing and criminal mischief, officials said.
The gun they were allegedly waving around turned out to be fake, police said.
Backpack bandit busted
A 21-year-old man has been connected to an early-morning robbery on January 4, according to Kings County prosecutors.
Police said that Nigel DaSilva was charged with robbery in the second degree, assault and grand larceny this week after he was connected to the mugging at the corner of Ralph Avenue and Glenwood Road.
A young female victim told police that she was walking past the corner at 6:40 a.m. that morning when DaSilva and an unapprehended accomplice allegedly attacked her, punching her in the face.
The duo ran off with the woman’s iPod and backpack, police alleged.
Police said the young woman suffered some bumps and bruises, but was otherwise unharmed.
Off the charts
This guy was so bad off he shouldn’t have been walking, much less driving.
That’s what police are saying about 26-year-old Jeffrey Rameau, who was arrested on drunk driving charges after allegedly scoring a .26 percent on an NYPD Brethalyzer test — well over the legal limit of .08.
Cops caught up with Rameau after his 2009 Toyota Corolla allegedly slammed into another car at the corner of Foster and Ralph avenues just before 5 a.m. on January 20.
Luckily, no serious injuries were reported.
Hijacked off street
A 63-year-old man was robbed of $220 after he was kidnapped off of Ralph Avenue.
The senior told police that two thugs approached him between Flatlands and Bergen avenues at 11:30 a.m. on January 16 and pulled a gun on him.
The suspects then forced the man into their van and drove him around the neighborhood, stealing his cash during the terror trip.
After an hour, the thieves dropped the now penniless victim off in the neighborhood, unharmed.
Cops were still looking for the thieves as this paper went to press.
Short-lived crime spree
An 18-year-old bandit was arrested Friday after he and a friend allegedly held up two men in the space of 15 minutes.
Police alleged that Dady Michel and his associate jumped a man on Utica Avenue and Avenue K at 8:45 p.m. on January 22, putting a knife to his neck and robbing him of his cell phone, earring and $73.
About a quarter of an hour later, the two accosted a second man at the corner of Flatlands Avenue and East 49th Street, police alleged.
In a repeat performance, the two allegedly put a knife to their victim’s neck and robbed him of $90.
While the thieves ran off, Michel of them didn’t get far.
He was taken into custody a short time later, charged with two counts of robbery in the first degree, grand larceny, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon.
Neither victim was seriously harmed, officials said.
Michel’s accomplice was still at large as this paper went to press.
Knocked down and robbed
A 47-year-old woman was shoved to the ground and robbed of her purse as she walked through Flatlands last week.
Two unidentified males reportedly grabbed the woman on Glenwood Road near East 59th Street at 7:45 a.m. on January 17.
They ran off with the woman’s purse and $20 in cash after bowling her over, officials said.
Cops were still looking for the thieves as this paper went to press.
Robbed in parking lot
Cops are searching for two gun-toting goons who robbed a 27-year-old woman in the parking lot of a neighborhood AutoZone.
The young woman told police that she was walking through the parking lot at 2:40 a.m. on January 8 when the two suspects approached with a silver handgun in their grasp.
“Give me everything you got,” one of the men demanded as they took the woman’s keys and credit cards from her.
The thieves ran off, leaving the woman unharmed, officials said.
