Police Blotter, Week of March 26, 2015

Surveillance images of the alleged Sunglass Hut heist suspects.

Shady characters
On Wed., March 18, at 6:35 p.m., two men walked into the Sunglass Hut, at 755 Broadway, and began removing sunglasses from the displays, police said. In all, they swiped 25 Gucci sunglasses, 11 Versace sunglasses, eight Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses and four Prada sunglasses, in total valued at more than $20,000. The suspects then fled the scene.

Anyone with information 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.

A surveillance image of the alleged suspect in the March 18 L.E.S. sex attack.

L.E.S. sex attack
Police are asking for the public’s help in hunting down a man who sexually assaulted a woman on the Lower East Side on Wed., March 18, at 10:40 p.m.

At that time, police said, the victim, 51, was followed into her building by the suspect. Once on the fifth floor, the man approached her from behind, choked her and sexually abused her. The woman, however, was eventually able to fight him off and he fled.

The victim was removed to Bellevue Hospital where she was treated fo SV r bruising to her hands and neck.

Police described the suspect as Hispanic, in his mid-thirties, 5-feet-9-inches tall and weighing 190 pounds. He was wearing a “New York” hoodie.

Unlucky in Loko
Boozy beverage Four Loko was not the most-loco substance one man was indulging in outside 374 Sixth Ave. on Thurs., March 19.

Police came said they came upon the man at about 7:45 p.m. and observed him drinking from a 24-ounce can in plain view. After arresting him for the public drinking of alcohol, police found a crack pipe with residue in his left sweatshirt pocket, plus someone else’s Chase debit card in his left pants pocket.

Melvin Johnson, 49, was charged with felony criminal possession of stolen property and misdemeanor criminal possession of a controlled substance.

For Love or Lex
An air-conditioning unit owned by the Waverly Restaurant, at 385 Sixth Ave., got tagged by a girl graffiti writer with either the word “Love” or “Lex” in silver paint. A 71-year-old man who witnessed the graffitist in action alerted police, who caught the young woman red-handed at about 7:20 p.m. on Wed., March 18, according to a police report.

Alexis Gines, 24, was charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief.

Catches bad check
A man walked into a Chase bank at 204 W. Fourth St. on Jan. 22 and attempted to cash a check for $488.11. He handed a female teller his ID, but then security software alerted her that something was amiss as she started to cash the check, police said. She contacted a supervisor. The teller subsequently informed the purported patron that his check was forged, and then refused to give it and the ID card back.

Garbines Myles, 19, reportedly then left the bank, leaving his identification behind. He was arrested on March 19 and charged with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Jun Qin Zhang, top, and Brittania Efteland are both reported missing. — Brittania Efteland, above, and Jun Qin Zhang, below, are both reported missing.

Missing on L.E.S.
Two individuals were recently reported reported missing from the Lower East Side. On Sat., March 21, Jun Qin Zhang, 30, was reported missing. He had last been seen inside his residence, at 137 E. Broadway, at 11 a.m. on Fri., March 20. He is 5-feet-10-inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and black hair. He was last seen wearing a red coat, a blue NYC baseball cap and blue jeans.

Also reported missing is Brittania Efteland, 36, of 91 Pitt St. She was last seen at her home on Tues., March 17, at about 2 p.m. She is 5-feet-8-inches tall, weighs 140 pounds and was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and black spandex.

Sticky situation
Graffiti charges are not just for taggers but also for illegal stickering. Police said they observed a man slapping a sticker onto a traffic light at about 5 p.m. on Sat., March 21. They reportedly found an additional sticker in his left hand and 48 more in his left-rear pants pocket when he was arrested near the northwest corner of W. Third and Sullivan Sts.

A police report did not describe the images on the stickers. Ryan Robertson, 28, was charged with making graffiti, a misdemeanor.

Stonewall glass clash
Things got rowdy at the Stonewall Inn, at 53 Christopher St., in the early morning on Wed., March 18, after an argument between a patron and staff and a third party.

Ricardo Moddie, 33, threw a drinking glass at another man at about 1:30 a.m., police said. The glass struck the victim in the ribs but did not seriously injure him, according to a report. Moddie then fled the seen but was apprehended nearby. Police said he resisted being handcuffed.

He was charged with misdemeanor assault.

Skating straphanger
Police said they arrested a man after observing him skateboarding in the subway station at W. 14th St. and Eighth Ave. on March 18. An officer demanded that the rolling rider produce an identification card and arrested him when he refused to do so. Shaza Bailey, 20, then allegedly tightened his arms, requiring arresting officers to forcibly place his hands behind his back at about 1:15 a.m., according to a police report.

No injuries were reported to police or Bailey, who was charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.

Boost pricey purses
Shoplifters have been repeatedly hitting the Saint Laurent Paris store at 80 Greene St. in Soho.

On Sun., Mar. 15, two men walked into the place at 3:45 p.m., snatched two purses off the display rack, stuffed them inside their jackets and left, police said. The bags were worth a total of $5,640. Surveillance video showed the thieves fleeing north on Spring St.

It was the store’s fourth shoplifting crime in three months.

— Zach Williams, Lincoln Anderson and Dusica Sue Malesevic