Maiden La. death
A woman who worked in an office at 80 Maiden La. jumped to her death from the 10th floor of the building shortly before 6 a.m. Tues., Feb 1, police said. Other office workers in the building near Gold St. said the victim, 54, had been laid off the previous afternoon and had remained in the building all night. Police withheld her name pending family notification.
Sex assault attempt
Police are looking for a suspect wanted for an attempted sexual assault on a 12-year-old girl in a stairwell of her Hester St. home around 6 p.m. Mon. Jan. 24. The victim was walking to her apartment when she heard someone banging on the outside door of the building. She admitted the suspect, described as a white male, between 25 and 30 years old, about 5’9” and 175 pounds wearing a blue jacket, brown trousers and gray hat, who followed her to the third floor stairwell where he attempted to sexually molest her, police said. The victim fled and the girl was unhurt, police said.
Car hits senior
A northbound taxicab made a right turn from Pike St. onto E. Broadway at 9:39 a.m. Fri. Jan. 28 and struck a woman, 84, as she was crossing from the southeast corner of Pike and E. Broadway to the north side of E. Broadway. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. Police said both the victim and the cab driver had a green light at the time of the accident and there was no criminality suspected.
Wall St. DOA
Police responded to a 9 a.m. call on Tues., Jan. 25 about a man unconscious in Suite 2507, 67 Wall St. at the corner of Beaver St. Mark C. Flavin, 58, a lawyer, was found in his office and declared dead by an Emergency Medical Service unit that responded to the call. The death was first suspected as a homicide but police later said the fatal injury looked like the result of an accidental fall. The Medical Examiner’s office said on Tues. Feb. 1 that the cause of death had not yet been determined.
Eldridge St. murder trial
The trial of Ricardo Martinez, 25, for the murder of Vincent Cruz on June 24, 2008 on Eldridge St. near Rivington St. began Mon. Jan. 31. The victim, of 40 Rivington St., who was 17 at the time, was shot in the head a block from his residence. The shooting was over an argument about stolen property, according to court papers.
Construction site burglaries
A burglar who entered a basement construction location at 195 Broadway near John St. sometime between Sat. Jan. 22 and Mon., Jan. 24, made off with three power tools valued at $750, police said.
During the same weekend, a burglar forced open a locked door at a construction site in 240 W. Broadway near N. Moore St. and stole a laptop computer and a power tool with a total value of $1,050, police said.
Visitor victimized
A woman visiting from Puerto Rico told police she discovered her bag and wallet were missing on Fri., Jan. 21 when she returned to her room at the Smyth Hotel, 85 W. Broadway near Chambers St. The victim said she wasn’t sure exactly when or where the theft occurred but she learned that $4,466 in unauthorized charges had been made on her credit cards.
Wallet gone
A woman who works at 194 Reade St. between Church St. and W. Broadway told police she discovered on Mon., Jan. 24 that her wallet was stolen. She lost her driver’s license, credit cards and $323 in cash. The victim later learned that an unauthorized charge of $164 had been made on one card, but a charge of the same sum had been refused on another card.
Student loses bag
A student at Metropolitan College, 431 Canal St. at Varick St. told police that she left her bag at her desk around 4 p.m. Mon., Jan. 24 when she went to the bathroom and returned a few minutes later to discover the bag was gone, along with her Ecuadorian ID, 80 Euros and $80 in U.S. currency.
— Albert Amateau
