Stabbed on Murray St.
Police responded to a report at 1:48 a.m. Fri., Jan. 16 that two men were stabbed in front of 41 Murray St. between Church St. and West Broadway and found one man, 18, with a stab wound in the chest and another man, 19, stabbed four times in the leg. The two were taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, the 18-year-old in serious condition and the other victim in stable condition. Police said the two victims had been in a dispute with an unidentified man. The case is under investigation.
Burglary series
Police arrested two men on Mon., Jan. 12 in connection with the burglary of eight businesses, including popular bars in Soho, the East Village and Tribeca, mostly in June and July.
The suspects, Kirk Ruffler, 27, and Danny Tarangelo, 49, gained entrance to some of the premises by wearing hardhats and posing as workers and then smashing safes and looting the contents, according to police.
Among the places broken into were Bounce, 103 Second Ave., Standings, 43 E. Seventh St. in June, Café Amore, 147 Chambers St. in July, according to the office of the Manhattan District Attorney. Song 7.2 at 117 Second Ave. was another target of the suspects who are also being charged with stealing $48,000 from the safe at Buy-Rite Pharmacy, 215 Grand St. and $1,000 from the safe at Onieal’s, 174 Grand St. at Centre Market Pl. in December.
Ruffler was charged with burglarizing Blue and Gold Bar, 79 E. 7th St. and stealing $730. Tarangelo was charged with breaking into Aroma Xpresso Bar, 145 Greene St., and taking $850 from the safe.
Police are also investigating the suspects’ connection to burglaries last summer at Delicatessen, 54 Prince St. and Jacques, 20 Prince St.
The suspects are being held in lieu of $100,000 bail each.
Car stolen
A Long Island man who parked his 2008 Mercedes-Benz in front of 23 Park Row near Beekman St. at 9 a.m. Mon. Dec. 29 returned at 10:30 a.m. and found it had been stolen, police said.
Phone threats
A woman who had forgotten her bag at a bar at 2 Gold St. at Maiden Ln. at 3 a.m. Sun., Jan. 11 returned to the place at 9:30 a.m. the next day to claim it but her cell phone was missing, police said. The victim told police that 50 unauthorized calls had been made, including one to her mother by a man who said, “I have your daughter, that [expletive]. I’ve been watching her for three months.” The man also used the cell phone to call the victim’s friend and made sexual and threatening statements, police said.
ATMs stolen
Seventh Precinct police are looking for two men in a white van who stole three Automated Teller Machines — and their cash contents — from a cluster of three Lower East Side locations between Dec. 26 and Jan. 7.
The suspects drove their van onto the sidewalks, knocked the ATMs off their base anchors, picked the machines up and drove off, according to police. They took a machine from Delancey St. locations in front of 107 Clinton St. at 5:18 a.m. Dec. 26, another from in front of 103 Clinton St. at 5:25 a.m. Jan. 6 and another from in front of 109 Ludlow St. Jan. 7, police said.
Menacing arrest
Wen Pan, 27, was arrested in his E. Broadway apartment near Allen St. at 11:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 15. He’s accused of kicking down the door to the bedroom where his girlfriend fled in terror and menacing her with a cleaver. Police said an accomplice who entered the apartment with the suspect punched and kicked the victim, 25, and fled before the suspect himself went after the victim. According to the attempted first degree assault, menacing and weapon possession charges, Pan waived a meat cleaver at the victim, and said, “I’m going to kill you. Next time I knock on the door, open it quicker.”
Two assaults
Police arrested Niddal Mahmoud, 23, on Sat., Jan. 17 for attacks on his girlfriend in her Elizabeth St. apartment near Grand St. on two successive days. On Tues., Jan. 13, the suspect punched and kicked the woman then slashed her sofa and smashed her cell phone, according to charges filed by the Manhattan District Attorney. The following day, the suspect kicked in the victim’s door and when she told him to leave, indicated he had a gun in his waistband and said, “Don’t make me shoot you,” according to the charges. Mahmoud, of North Bergen, N.J., was being held in lieu of $35,000 bail pending a Fri., Jan. 23 court appearance on assault and criminal mischief.
Senior indicted for fraud
An 82-year-old New Jersey resident was indicted on Jan. 15 for filing false deeds in Manhattan in 2008 in a fraudulent attempt to transfer four Chinatown properties to himself, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
In was the second time since 2007 that the defendant, Yip Shuen Ng, has been charged with trying to steal Chinatown properties by means of false deeds.
The latest indictment charged that on four occasions last year, Ng forged deeds with the City Register purportedly conveying 61 Mott St., 91 Bowery, 34 Mott St. and 26 Mulberry St. to himself. The bogus deeds bore the signatures of Ng and the supposed owners, but Ng did not own any of the residential and commercial properties nor was he authorized to act for the real owners, the indictment says. Ng was charged with four counts of possession of a forged instrument and four counts of offering a forged instrument for filing — felonies punishable by up to seven years in prison.
In 2007, Ng was arrested and pleaded guilty to filing forged deeds with the City Register relating to three Chinatown properties, 14 Bowery, 93 Bowery and 26 Mulberry St. — the last being one of the properties involved in the new charges, the District Attorney said. The deeds had Ng’s signature as the properties’ representative and conveyed them to himself, according to the District Attorney’s office. Ng was conditionally discharged in the 2007 case and ordered to restore the properties to their rightful owners.
Tribeca burglary
A burglar entered a second floor apartment at 131 Watts St. at Greenwich St. sometime between 9 p.m. Wed., Jan. 7 and 1:30 p.m. the following day when the resident was out, police said. The burglar made off with a laptop computer valued at $800.
Hotel guest assault
A Yonkers man bit his girlfriend on the hand and hit her on the head during an argument around 1:30 a.m. Sun., Jan. 11 while they were watching television in their room at the Millenium Hilton Hotel on Church and Fulton Sts., police said. Michael Mastrangelo, 25, was charged with misdemeanor assault. His girlfriend, of Dobbs Ferry, was not seriously hurt.
Wall St. lockers looted
A patron of Equinox, 14 Wall St., told police that he locked his locker at 6:15 p.m. Tues., Jan. 6 and returned after his workout at 7:40 p.m. and discovered his credit card and $30 were missing from his wallet but the lock had not been forced open.
A patron of New York Sports Club, 30 Wall St., told police that he locked his locker at 7 p.m. Fri., Jan. 9 and returned an hour and a half later to discover three credit cards and $20 were missing from his wallet but the lock had not been broken or forced open. The victim discovered that unauthorized charges of $2,500 had been made on the cards.
Both clubs declined to comment.
— Albert Amateau
