Pier 40 gangplank gang
A boozy Hornblower cruise filled with reputed gang members ended with some of them blasting bullets into a Nissan Maxima on Bethune St. on March 28, according to police.
The New York Post reported, “Drunken gang members leaving a post-auto-show party boat caused mayhem in the West Village early Monday — shooting up a car and getting into fights throughout the quiet neighborhood, according to law-enforcement sources.
“The hours after the annual New York Auto Show have been times of gang-initiation violence in busy areas like Times Square on Easter Sundays in recent years,” the report added.
Police found the abandoned sedan full of bullet holes. The violence erupted around 2:45 a.m., not long after a Hornblower Cruises ship docked at Pier 40. Cops reportedly canvassed the area and local hospitals, but did not find any blood or victims.
According to sources, the Post reported, the boat had been full of intoxicated gang members conducting initiations, and there apparently had been a fight onboard just before the passengers disembarked.
Story doesn’t cut it
At the northeast corner of Sixth Ave. and W. Fourth St. on Thurs., March 24, a police officer observed a shiny knife clip on the right front pocket of a man’s jeans around 10:30 p.m. The man attempted to walk away from the cop, who stopped him and recovered the knife. The man told police, “I live in Brooklyn. I come home late. I carry a knife every day and maybe use it for protection.”
Lingqiu Jin, 23, was arrested for misdemeanor obstruction of governmental administration and criminal possession of a weapon.
Instagrab
An altercation ensued at the W. Ninth St. PATH station Sun., March 27, around 2 a.m., when a young man and his girlfriend were taking a video with the boyfriend’s cell phone and another man approached and swiped it from the boyfriend’s hand, police said. The girlfriend attempted to retrieve the phone and then engaged in a struggle with a second man who was assisting the guy who intitially had grabbed away the phone from her boyfriend. Police said that when the men were arrested, they said, “It’s a prank.”
Police busted Isaiah Johnson, 19, and Prince Bradley, 19, for felony robbery.
Maserati misery
A police officer said he observed a white Maserati with Florida license plates blow through a stop sign in the Meatpacking District on Fri., March 25, around 1 a.m. The officer pulled the driver over at the corner of W. 14th St. and Ninth Ave. According to the report, the officer observed the driver to have a flushed face, a strong odor of alcohol on his breath and watery and bloodshot eyes, and was unsteady on his feet.
Sohrab Sharma, 24, was arrested for misdemeanor D.W.I.
‘Curious’ contractor
A man was contracted to fix a faucet inside a woman’s apartment at 225 Sullivan St. on Thurs., March 24, at 4 p.m., according to police. However, he was observed on a surveillance camera entering an unlocked bedroom and rummaging through drawers where she keeps her undergarments. When the victim returned to the scene, a credit card and MetroCard were missing from her dresser. The man told police, “I was curious.”
Police arrested Paulo Tavares, 40, for felony grand larceny.
Emily Siegel
and Lincoln Anderson
