Burglary pattern
Police are linking a pair of booze bandits who stole alcohol from the closed Suffolk Arms bar, at 269 E. Houston St., at 4:30 a.m. on April 3 to a series of other early-morning burglaries in the Fifth and Seventh Precincts.
On Tues., April 26, around 2:33 a.m., the suspects entered Dudley’s restaurant, at 85 Orchard St., and took $500 from the till, police said.
Later that day, around 10 p.m., they entered New Shing Wang restaurant, at 27 Eldridge St., and took $400 and an Apple iPhone and iPad.
A half hour later, according to police, the perps entered Ting Sing Fish Ball restaurant, at 21 Eldridge St., and absconded with $300.
Fifteen minutes after that, the same suspects hit Eric McKenna Bakery, at 248 Broome St., according to police, removing about $1,600 from a file cabinet.
On Wed., April 27, at 12:30 a.m., they capped off their night of burglary by breaking into Kottu House, which had closed at midnight, and making off with $50.
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. All tips are confidential.
Family incident
A father and son were arrested at an apartment at 240 Waverly St. on Thursday during a violent incident.
According to police, around 8 p.m. on April 28, the father brandished a kitchen knife and, with a stabbing motion, attempted to knife the son’s leg. When police arrived, the son was found to be in possession of a loaded firearm that was not licensed to him. No injuries were reported.
The two men, both named John Doe, ages 35 and 82, were arrested. The younger man was arrested for felony criminal possession of a weapon. His father was arrested for felony assault.
Pier 40 parking perp
Police said a man damaged 18 vehicles in a parking garage at Pier 40 at West and W. Houston Sts last week. On Fri., April 29, at 2 a.m., a security employee was making his routine rounds, when he witnessed a man damaging multiple vehicles with a brick. The security guard also witnessed the man rip off a vehicle’s license plate and sit in the front seat of a car.
Juan Hernandez, 29, was arrested for felony criminal mischief.
From knife to narcotics
A police officer spotted a man with a gravity knife on the sidewalk in front of 121 Christopher St. at 2:20 a.m. on Fri., April 29, police said. Upon a search, the man was found to be in possession of a stolen credit card, a quantity of alleged powder-form heroin stamped “New World,” hypodermic needles and a glass pipe all with alleged heroin residue, and one plastic vile containing alleged cocaine.
Police arrested Jacob Obrikis, 34, for felony criminal possession of a weapon.
Bar thief busted
A woman stole items from different people at various bars in the same area. On Thurs., April 21, at 1 a.m., a woman said her iPhone was swiped from her purse at Greenwich Tree Bar, at 46 Greenwich Ave. She traced her phone to another location with phone-tracking software, and observed a woman in possession of it. The victim told police that she recognized the woman from the previous location.
Upon a search of the suspect, police found other items that had been reported missing the previous day. On Wed., April 20, at Gaslight, at 400 W. 14th St., at around 9 p.m., a handbag containing a credit card was stolen. On the same day around 11 p.m. at Bill’s Bar and Burger, at 22 Ninth Ave., a backpack containing an Apple laptop was stolen.
Shaniah Lord, 19, was arrested for felony grand larceny.
Phone filcher
A woman brought home a man from a bar on Saturday night but it didn’t go as planned. The woman told police that inside her apartment at 101 Perry St. around 5 a.m., the man had started acting strangely, so she asked him to leave several times. But he became irate and took her iPhone 6 Plus out of her hand and stated, “I will smash your iPhone in the street.”
He then left the apartment with the phone without her permission. Police canvassed the area and found the suspect, who was positively identified by the woman.
Police arrested Trent Ingraham, 24, for felony grand larceny.
Cop out
Police said that on Mon., May 2, around 1:30 a.m. an off-duty New York City police officer was arrested for getting into a physical altercation with a bouncer at 3 Sheets Saloon, at 134 W. Third St. Gerardo Bugalloberet, 26, who is assigned to the Bronx, had been drinking at the bar, then reportedly got into a verbal dispute with a bouncer that turned physical.
Bugalloberet was charged with misdemeanor assault and has been suspended from the force, according to a police spokesperson. The bouncer refused medical attention.
— Emily Siegel
and Lincoln Anderson
