Police Blotter
 

Parole plea by ‘fire fiend’
Paul Braunstein, 42, charged with the Halloween 2005 sexual attack on a Chelsea woman after gaining access to her W. 24 St. apartment dressed as a firefighter, pleaded guilty Fri. Oct. 6 to violating parole on a previous crime while he was a fugitive from the Chelsea case.

Braunstein, a freelance journalist, was on the lam until December after the Halloween event. At the time he was on three years probation after pleading guilty in September 2005 for having menaced another woman.

He has pleaded not guilty to the Halloween incident and is being held pending trial. His lawyers have indicated that he would make an insanity defense.

Sought in robberies
A man who walked into a jewelry shop at 42 University Pl., at about 7:25 p.m. Mon. Sept. 25 pulled a knife on two people at the counter, demanded cash and fled, police said. The robber, described as white, 36 to 40 years old, with pronounced buckteeth, gray hair, short to medium stature and medium build, is believed to have held up six other shops in Midtown, the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side between Sept. 8 to Sept. 28, police said.

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