Deejay dies in Soho
Adam Goldstein, the celebrity disc jockey known as DJ AM, was found dead in his apartment, at 210 Lafayette St. between Broome and Spring Sts., at 5:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 28, police said.
Goldstein, 36, was found after a friend, Alex Burns, knocked on his door and got no response. Emergency medical technicians declared the victim dead on arrival after finding him sprawled on his bed with a crack pipe and empty bag of crack and prescription drugs nearby.
Goldstein survived a plane crash in South Carolina less than a year ago when he was severely burned. He was set to star in an intervention reality show on MTV helping teens to kick addictions.
Shot on Avenue B
Police responded to a report at 3:25 a.m. Fri., Aug. 28, of a man shot on E. Fifth St. and Avenue B. The victim, identified only as a black man, age 23, was struck once in the leg and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition. A .38-caliber revolver was recovered at the scene.
Pipe-wielding women
A Brooklyn man told police that five women, one of them wielding a metal pipe, assaulted him at 3:30 a.m. Tues., Aug. 25, on the sidewalk in front of 83 W. Third St. between Thompson and Sullivan Sts. Police later arrested Malaika Morris, 22; Renee Francis, 21; Roberta Toussaint, 33; Cherie Byrd, 32; and Fatima Crowder, 24, and charged them with first- and second-degree assault.
Domestic violence
A resident of Hudson St. between W. 11th and Perry Sts. told police that his partner punched him and hit him with a curtain rod shortly after 11 p.m. Tues., Aug. 25, and then fled. The victim said he had just come home from drinking with friends and told his partner that he had to move out of the apartment in six to eight weeks. During the beating, the suspect, who was arrested later, told the victim, “This is for you.” The suspect, Christopher Wiley, 44, was arrested a few hours later and charged with first- and second-degree assault.
Bottle bash
An argument that began in the Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St., around 1:30 a.m. Wed., Aug. 26, carried onto the sidewalk in front of the place when a man hit his adversary with a beer bottle and punched him repeatedly in the face, police said. The victim sustained a possible concussion and required several stitches, police said. The suspect, Fredy Gonzalez, fled but was arrested later in front of the Stonewall and charged with felony assault.
Robbery plea
Robert Stewart, 51, pleaded not guilty on Wed., Aug. 26, to five push-in robberies this May and July of elderly men, including a 91-year-old victim who was robbed in his building at 247 W. 12th St. on May 29. Stewart was arrested on July 22 for robbing a man, 73, in his Seventh Ave. South building. The other robberies were in Stuyvesant Town buildings — one of a man, 76, on May 25, another of a man, 61, on June 7, and a fifth of a man, 77, on July 10.
Stewart, a Paterson, N.J., resident, is also suspected of similar crimes in New Jersey and has a record of prior convictions, according to reports. He is being held pending a Nov. 18 court appearance.
Bank-robber cop pleads
Christian Torres, 23, the rookie police officer who conspired with a bank teller to rob the Sovereign Bank branch at 57 Avenue A twice, once on June 8, 2007, and again on Nov. 16, 2007, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of armed bank robbery, larceny and conspiracy to defraud a bank. His accomplice, Christina Dasrath, the teller whom he met while both were students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, pleaded guilty this January and is serving an 18-month prison sentence. Torres, who was arrested in Muhlenberg, Pa., for robbing a bank there in April 2008, took a total of $118,000 during the two Avenue A robberies and shared the proceeds with Dasrath, according to court documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced in November and is subject to a maximum prison term of 30 years for bank fraud, 10 years for bank larceny and 25 years for armed bank robbery.
Slashed in Village
A 29-year-old man walking on Barrow St. near W. Fourth St. at 11:15 p.m. Wed., Aug. 26, was surprised by a stranger, who slashed him on the neck, chest and arm with a penknife, police said. The victim required 25 stitches, according to reports.
Albert Amateau
