Eldridge stabbing
A fight between two groups of men outside a cell phone store on Eldridge St. near Canal St. at 1 p.m. Sat., Dec. 26 ended when one man stabbed another. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. Police have not made any arrests in the case and did not say what the argument was about.
Moose hazard
A patron of White Slab Palace, 77 Delancey St., has sued the restaurant-bar for unspecified damages, charging that a 150-pound moose head hanging on a wall fell on her head in October and gave her a concussion and “chronic neck pain, anxiety, fatigue, dizziness and other … injuries.”
Raina Kumra, 32, said in papers filed in Manhattan State Supreme Court last week that the mounted moose head with a three-foot antler span became dislodged from the wall during a party in the packed back room of the place at 1 a.m. Sun., Oct. 4 and hit her on the head. White Slab Palace had a duty to keep the establishment free of falling objects, the suit says. The suit names Annika Sundvik, who opened the Scandinavian-theme venue in February, as a defendant. A woman who identified herself as manager of the place on Tuesday afternoon Dec. 29 said she didn’t “know anything about it,” and refused to let photographers into the back room where the incident was said to have occurred.
Kumra is an Internet consultant who lives in Manhattan.
Domestic slashing
Louis Coiro, 20, was arrested around 9 p.m. Sun., Dec. 20 and charged with assaulting his girlfriend during an argument in their apartment at Grand and Thompson Sts. The suspect slashed the victim’s arm with a folding knife and then punched her in the face and body, according to the charges. He is free on $1,000 bail pending a March 22 court appearance.
Soho robbery arrest
Rasheed Mingues, 30, was arrested Mon., Dec. 21 for entering Brasserie Felix, 340 W. Broadway at Grand St. at 3:50 a.m. on July 23 and fleeing with $5,000 cash and a Chase Bank checkbook.
The suspect is charged with cashing several of the checks starting five months ago with one for $1,386 on July 24 at a Chase branch in Carle Place, two more discovered Aug. 3 on the account of a company on W. 46th St.. and another in a Westbury branch.
One of the checks, which he made out to himself, was traced and led to his arrest. He was charged with grand larceny, identity theft and fraud.
Burglary charge
Tenth Precinct police arrested a Lower East Side resident on Dec. 9 for the Oct. 27 home invasion and robbery of a woman, 37, in her apartment on W. 19th St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves.
The suspect, Bartholomew Crawford, 41, of Suffolk St., who was on parole for a previous burglary conviction at the time, was identified by his DNA from skin cells left on an article of the victim’s clothing that he used to tie her up, said Inspector Stephen J. Hughes, 10th Precinct commanding officer.
The suspect had entered the victim’s fourth floor apartment in her five-story building on the north side of W. 19th St. at 2 a.m. by going from roof to roof, police said. He threw a comforter over the head of the sleeping victim, tied her hands and feet, blindfolded her with her pantyhose and fled with $5,000 in cash.
Because she was bound and blindfolded, the victim was unable to identify the suspect except to say that from his voice he appeared to be an adult. Except for the DNA evidence, the case might have gone unsolved, Hughes said.
Crawford is being held in lieu of bail pending a court appearance on burglary, robbery and home invasion charges.
— Albert Amateau
