Cops are investigating a local man’s claims that he has been targeted by an anti-Semite.
The 57-year-old victim told police that the suspect, who has not been identified, has thrown eggs at his home near the corner of Albemarle and Marlborough roads on three separate occasions.
Then during last weekend’s snow storm the same fiend wrote the words “God Hates Jews” in the snow.
Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.
Calls can be made to the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Bussed to jail
A fun trip om a party bus ended on a sour note last week when a passenger allegedly threatened the driver with a gun.
Cops from the 70th Precinct said that the bus driver told everyone getting on the bus at the corner of East 21st Street and Woodruff Avenue at 11:30 p.m. on February 6 that the party was over unless he got paid.
That’s when 20-year-old Matthew Herclues piped up. “You can’t tell me to leave the bus!” he allegedly claimed. “I have my gun.”
Fearing for his life, the bus driver called police, who rounded up and arrested Herclues, who was later determined to be unarmed.
Cops did reportedly find a 40. Caliber pistol on a tray in the bus, but the weapon couldn’t be linked to Herclues, according to published reports.
The 20-year-old was charged with menacing, harassment and unlawful possession of marijuana after some of the drug was found stowed in his underwear.
Identity idiot
A 20-year-old man was arrested last week after he allegedly used someone else’s name and social security number to get a Dell laptop computer and MP3 player.
During his arrest on February 2, Jermain Demary allegedly cadmitted to using another man’s information to order the computer. His ruse was revealed, however, when he had the items delivered to his home on East 58th Street in East Flatbush, police alleged.
Cops charged him with petit larceny and criminal impersonation.
Stabbed in leg
A woman was rushed to the hospital last week after being stabbed in the leg during a dispute on East 92nd Street near Church Avenue.
Police said that the victim was arguing with a 54-year-old woman at 10:25 p.m. on February 4 when the would-be assailant stabbed her in the leg and then threatened to hit her with a leg of a chair. She also threatened to kill her, police said.
As responding paramedics took the woman to a local hospital for treatment, cops recovered the unnamed woman’s knife and placed her under arrest, charged with assault in the second degree.
It was unclear what sparked the assault as this paper went to press.
Found dead on McDonald Ave.
The city’s Medical Examiner’s office is hoping to determine what killed a 50-year-old man found on McDonald Avenue.
Police said that the unnamed victim was discovered unconscious near Avenue I just after 2:15 a.m. on February 8.
He died at the scene as paramedics tried to render aid.
An autopsy was scheduled to be performed 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.
Gunned down on Beverley
Cops are looking for the gunman who ended the life of a 19-year-old on Beverley Road recently.
Police said the victim was found shot in the head inside a building near East 35th Street at 7 p.m. on January 25, but it’s believed that he had been shot near the corner of East 31st Street.
Mortally wounded, the victim reportedly ran to the building on East 35th Street, where he collapsed and died, according to investigators.
Cops are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to come forward.
Calls can be made to the NYPD CrimeStoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Help wipe out graffiti
As the ongoing war against graffiti vandalism continues, cops are now offering a $500 reward to anyone with information that can lead them to graffiti vandals.
The hefty reward is part of the city’s new push to rid New York of graffiti, which is one of the leading quality of life complaints brought to police.
Officials said that cleaning up graffiti is essential to the plan, to show that the community is no longer going to tolerate marred and tagged-up walls and street corners.
According to police, there is a perception that if a community will tolerate graffiti, they will tolerate other criminal activities, such as drug dealing and prostitution.
Anyone with information about graffiti vandalism in their neighborhood is urged to contact either 311 or 911.
