L.E.S. woman missing
Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding a Lower East Side woman reported missing on Fri., Feb. 13. According to police, Sierra Carter, 15, was last seen at 8:10 a.m. on Tues., Feb. 10, leaving her home at 10 Catherine Slip. She was wearing a blue snorkel-hooded ski jacket, black jeans and brown boots. She is 5-feet-2 and weighs 135 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call the New York Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Web site, www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or texting them to 274637(CRIMES) and then entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.
‘Had four or five’
A man reportedly had a few stiff drinks before passing out inside a white 2012 Acura SUV parked in front of 538 La Guardia Place. A leg protruding from the open driver’s-side door piqued the curiosity of police at about 4:30 a.m. on Fri., Feb. 13. They reportedly found the engine running and Amandeep Singh, 24, slouched behind the wheel. Singh said he “had four or five” drinks and showed it, according to a police report, which noted the man’s watery, bloodshot eyes and crimson face. He refused a breathalyzer test at the scene, however, and was placed under arrest.
A search of the car found a bit of marijuana near the passenger-side door, police said. Singh subsequent took a breathalyzer test at the Seventh Precinct, registering a .137 blood-alcohol content, close to double the legal maximum of .08 percent allowed to drive. Although he was not observed driving while intoxicated, he was nonetheless charged with driving while under the influence, a misdemeanor.
Accelerating to trouble
A double-parked car in an active traffic lane at the northeast corner of W. 14th and Hudson Sts. caught the interest of police on Sat., Feb. 14, around 10:30 p.m. Thirty seconds’ worth of knocking passed before police could wake the sleeping driver.
But the man reportedly then quickly snapped to, hitting the gas as soon as he woke up. He nearly struck an officer and a taxi as he raced the 2012 BMW through a red light, according to police.
Cops caught up with Joseph Barnes, 22, soon afterward. But when the arresting officer opened the car’s driver’s-side door, Barnes allegedly gunned the gas once again, lurching the car forward, further endangering the officer, police said.
Barnes smelled of alcohol and marijuana, had bloodshot eyes and exhibited difficulty with proper enunciation, according to police. He reportedly blew a .02 blood-alcohol content — which is above the legal limit — during a breathalyzer test at the Seventh Precinct station and reportedly refused to offer his urine for analysis. Barnes was charged with felony reckless endangerment.
French Roast ruse
An employee at French Roast restaurant, at 78 W. 11th St., skimmed $1,447.96 from the place over a six-week period beginning on Jan. 2, according to police.
Police said the cafe’s manager, Jai Alvarez, 36, was arrested for felony grand larceny. The perpetrator allegedly adjusted the sales totals for 41 transactions on six different dates, pocketing the difference in cash. None of the money has been recovered yet, according to police.
Violent purse-snatching
On Sat, Jan. 24, at 4:18 a.m., a 32-year-old woman was walking in the vicinity of Essex and Hester Sts., near Seward Park, when a man approached her from behind, pushed her to the ground and violently wrested away her purse, containing her cell phone, debit and credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash. The suspect then fled the location.
The victim refused medical attention on scene.
The suspect is described as a tall, dark-skinned male wearing a green snorkel jacket.
Police provided surveillance video of the mugging and the suspect walking away afterward.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the New York Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. Tips can also be submitted by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Web site, www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, or texting them to 274637(CRIMES) and then entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.
Cuticle culprit
On Tues., Jan. 20, shortly before 1 a.m., a man entered Peony Nails Spa, at 542 Laguardia Place, through the front door, removed an undetermined amount of money from the cash register and a laptop computer, police said.
Cut her face
According to police, on Sat., Jan. 31, at 1:25 p.m., a 30-year-old woman was inside a residential building near the intersection of Jefferson and Madison Sts. when she was approached by a man who, unprovoked, cut her on the right side of her face with an unknown sharp object.
The woman yelled and the attacker fled the location. The victim was transported to Beth Israel Hospital where she was treated and released.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Hotline.
E-zee to find him
The E train attracts the homeless during winter months as one of only two completely underground subway lines. This helped a 30-year-old man identify for police a homeless man who, he said, had attacked him at the Canal St. station.
It all began with the two men riding a northbound E train at about 7:20 p.m. on Fri., Feb 6. The homeless man asked the victim, “What are you looking at?” to which the other man replied he wasn’t looking at anything. Then the homeless man attacked him.
The victim received some punches to the head and face resulting in a bloody nose and a fair amount of swelling, police said. A female acquaintance of the perpetrator, also homeless, reportedly joined in by elbowing the victim in the head, police said. Both assailants fled, but police caught Shawana Haidara, 39, and charged her with misdemeanor assault. She told police she didn’t attack the man, but that her purported husband did. He had fled up the stairs by that time, though.
The next day the victim spotted Dwayne Lawson, 40, at the E train station at 14th St. and Eighth Ave. He alerted police via 911. Lawson was charged with misdemeanor assault.
— Zach Williams and Lincoln Anderson
