Pace student murder
Two suspects were charged with murder last week in the Sept. 29 shooting death of a Pace College student in his apartment in the high rise at 2 Gold St. Raymond Rizzo, 30, was arrested at his home on Vermont Ave., Brooklyn on Tues., Oct. 19 and charged with murder the next day. Randy Colon, 30, of 113 E. 13th St., was arrested near Milford, Pa. and transported to Manhattan were he was also charged with murder on Oct. 25. The two defendants are being held pending court appearances, Rizzo on Nov. 10 and Colon on Fri., Oct. 29.
Rizzo and Colon were charged with robbing and killing Max Moreno, 21, a Pace student described by police as a small-time marijuana dealer, with a fatal shot to the head.
Murder sentence
Michael Chin Lenahan, 31, was sentenced to 19 years-to-life in prison on Fri., Oct. 22 for the October 2007 murder of his girlfriend, Lorna Santiago, in the apartment in Confucius Plaza where he lived with his grandmother. Lenahan was convicted of killing the victim and hiding her body under a pile of clothes where his mother found it a few days later and called police.
Downtown assault
Police arrested Lenny Santiago, 36, on Mon., Oct. 18 and charged him with assaulting his girlfriend last April 18 on Barclay St. at W. Broadway and making off with her wallet, cash and credit cards. Santiago, of Brooklyn, punched the victim and slammed her head on a parked car, police said. He was being held pending a Nov. 4 court appearance.
Soho assault
An argument broke between two homeless men at the corner of Thompson and Bleecker Sts. around midnight Thurs. Oct. 21 when one of them hit the other over the head with a bottle. Steve Johnson, 51, was charged with second degree assault.
Illegal agriculture
Police raided 127 Rivington St. near Essex St. St. around 11:41 p.m. Mon. Oct. 18 and found 446 marijuana plants, eight growing lamps and three water chillers in the basement of the building. They waited for Hakim Quest, 45, a resident of 153 Norfolk Sts., who rented the Rivington St. basement to return to the illegal plantation and arrested him for criminal possession and criminal sale of marijuana.
Jumped from ferry
A woman whose identity was withheld pending family notification jumped from a Staten Island-bound ferry as it passed Liberty Island at about 5:41 p.m. Mon., Oct. 25, police said. Two members of the ferry Guy Molinari set out in a small boat and pulled the victim, described as a Hispanic woman in her 30s, from the water. She was transferred to a NYPD Harbor Patrol boat and taken to the North Cove, Battery Park City where an Emergency Medical Service ambulance took her to New York Downtown Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival. Officials are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.
Picture imperfect
A Jersey City woman put her camera bag on the sidewalk next to her to take a photo of the triangle park at W. Broadway and Beach St. on Thursday afternoon Oct. 14 and discovered it missing when she bent down to pick it up, police said.
Jeep gone
A Newburg, N.Y. man parked his 1998 Jeep Wrangler on the southwest corner of Spring and Sullivan Sts. on Monday morning Oct. 18 found it had been stolen when he returned shortly after noon, police said.
Soho boutique thieves
A suspect described as “a skinny black woman about 5’10” with straight short hair” walked into the Isabel Morant boutique at 469 Broome St., around 1 p.m. Wed., Oct. 20, hid a scarf and a coat with a total value of $1,400 under her coat and tried to walk out without paying, police said. An employee stopped her when the alarm went off but the suspect managed to flee, police said.
A man and a woman walked into the Theory clothing boutique at 151 Spring St. shortly after 4 p.m. Fri., Oct. 22, took a leather coat valued at $1,155, put it in a bag and fled without being stopped, police said.
Two men walked into the Armani shop at 410 W. Broadway around 5 p.m. Sat., Oct. 23, tucked two leather coats with a total value of $2,990 under their coats and fled, police said.
The manager of the Jeans Store, 424 W. Broadway, told police that unknown suspects managed to take 10 pairs of jeans with a total value of $2,774 out of the store without paying for them around 3:40 p.m. Sun., Oct. 24.
Bags stolen
A woman, 34, put her bag on the floor while she was having drinks with a few friends at the Broome St. Bar, 363 W. Broadway around 1 a.m. Sat., Oct. 16. She discovered it was gone along with her BlackBerry, credit cards and New Jersey driver’s license.
A woman patron of the Canal Room, 285 W. Broadway told police she left her bag with $1,000 cash and a camera on a couch in the VIP room shortly after 4 a.m. Sat., Oct. 23 and found it had been stolen.
— Albert Amateau
