Teens arrested in L.E.S. rape
Three teenagers were arrested Tuesday for raping and robbing a woman, 33, in the Lower East Side / Chinatown area early Monday morning, June 1, at 5 a.m., police said.
Video from a deli shows the woman, beaten and bleeding, walking into the store to ask for help, around 5:10 a.m., The New York Times reported.
Minutes earlier, she reportedly had been raped by two of the three teens and also robbed of her purse, which held her identification and keys. She had met the three teens at an Internet cafe at 75 Eldridge St., near the deli, according to the Times. According to a source at the deli, police told him the rape occurred in a nearby park.
The woman was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side, where she was said to be in stable condition.
Police released video of the three suspects entering the woman’s building, located within the Fifth Precinct, at 5:11 a.m., according to the video’s time stamp. As they enter, they appear nonchalant, two of them pulling up the hoods of their sweatshirts, perhaps to better conceal their identities. Though one looked directly at the security camera as he pulled up his hood. They then climb the stairs. About a minute later, the three run down the stairs and leave.
The three teenagers — all 16 and reportedly from a Boys Town halfway house on Sixth Ave. in Brooklyn — were arrested at 4:35 a.m. on Tues., June 2. Eric Pek and Emanuel Burrows were charged with rape, robbery, assault, burglary and grand larceny. Pek was charged with petty larceny, and Burrows with attempted petty larceny. The third teenager, Sanat Asliev, was charged with attempted rape, assault and attempted burglary.
Pek has been arrested six times before; Burrows 11 times, DNAinfo reported.
Transgender woman pushed onto tracks
Police are searching for a man who pushed a transgender woman onto the southbound tracks of the No. 6 train at the Bleecker St./Broadway-Lafayette St. station on Mon., June 1, around 9 a.m.
According to police, the victim, 28, was approached by the man, who was acting erratically. He said, “What are you looking at?” then ran to a garbage can and removed an empty plastic bottle from it. The suspect then threw the bottle at the victim and pushed her onto the tracks. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital where she was treated and released.
On Thursday, the Daily News identified the victim as a transgender Harlem woman, who goes by “Danny” on her block. Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime, “an anti-sexual-orientation assault,” sources told the News.
Police provided video showing the suspect, who was wearing tan pants and a light-blue top and carrying two small bags.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the 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 by texting them to 274637(CRIMES) and then entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.
On Wednesday, someone called police to report a man fitting the suspect’s description in the vicinity of the Waverly restaurant, at Sixth Ave. and Waverly Place. However, police said the man was not the suspect, but was an “E.D.P.” — an emotionally disturbed person — acting irrationally and was a danger to himself and others. He was not arrested, but was aided by police, who sent him for treatment, a spokesperson said.
6th Pct. officer busted
Ymmacula Pierre, 30, a Sixth Precinct police officer, was arrested on Tues., June 2, within the Fifth Precint after she was caught using a dead man’s credit card information to buy herself a diamond ring.
The Daily News reported that, last July 14, Pierre responded to the apartment of Ken Sanden on E. 14th St. near Union for a “wellness check” after he failed to show up for work. Sanden, who suffered from low blood pressure, was found dead inside.
Pierre allegedly jotted down his credit card and email information and used his Samsung Galaxy phone to call his neice. Two days later, his card was used to buy a diamond ring online from Zales for $3,283, authorities said. The credit cardit company notified Sanden’s niece about the suspicious charge, and she stopped it from being shipped. The Samsung phone was also reported missing.
Pierre was charged with grand larceny, identity theft, criminal possession of stolen property and official misconduct, and faces four years in prison. She has been suspended without pay.
Caught in dragnet
Officers conducting a routine safety check at W. Houston and Washington Sts. on Thurs., May 28, detained a Pennsylvania driver at about 1 a.m. who was found to have a history of driving with a suspended license. His offenses in that regard date back to 2007, police said. Tasheen Hand, 38, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle, a misdemeanor.
Getting too hands-on
Things got a little grabby after a man allegedly groped a patron’s buttocks inside Amber, an Asian fusion restaurant and bar at 135 Christopher St., on Mon., May 18. Police were notified and arrested Altue Stith, 19, at about 2:15 p.m. He was charged with forcible touching, a misdemeanor.
Party till you’re cuffed
A 32-year-old man was reportedly a big spender at two bars in the Meatpacking District on Sun., March 29, allegedly with the help of copied or stolen credit cards. Police said that Elariel Padilla, 32, first visited Bagetelle, a restaurant/bar, at 1 Little West 12th St., where he reportedly spent $30,744. He then took the party to the nearby Gansevoort Hotel, at 18 Ninth Ave., where police said he racked up an additional $4,027 tab.
Staff at both venues did not know for sometime that the spending was suspicious. They notified police on Sun., March 29. Police investigated the incidents and arrested Padilla on Wed., May 20. He was charged with felony grand larceny.
Thief wasn’t Super Fly
Jahkeiff Myrick procured a five-finger discount from the Superdry clothing store at 718 Broadway on Wed., May 20. Police said he grabbed unspecified merchandise from the store before fleeing at about 2:30 p.m.
When police found him a short time later, he reportedly had burglary tools in his possession, for which Myrick was charged with misdemeanor possession of burglary tools. The fate of the purportedly stolen merchandise could not be determined.
— Chriss Williams, Lincoln Anderson and Dusica Sue Malesevic
