Car burglary arrests
A passerby who spotted two men breaking into a car parked on W. 22nd St. between Seventh and Eight Aves. at 3:05 a.m. Fri., April 11, followed them and identified them to police, who responded to his 911 phone call. Officers from the 10th Precinct, Matthew McCluskey and Eric Florio, arrested Allen Vega, 43, and Angel Laboy, 45, and charged them with burglary and possession of property stolen from the car—several pairs of shoes, clothing, a suitcase and textbooks.
Big tip
A New Jersey woman, who went to an ATM at W. 19th St. near 11th Ave. at 8:20 p.m. Fri., April 11, for cash to pay a $13.70 cab fare, gave the driver a $20 bill and asked for change. The driver refused with an obscene epithet, took the bill and drove off, police said. The victim reported the cab ID number to police.
Assaults
Police arrested Allen Maxwell Snow, 23, at 3:30 a.m. Sat., April 12 at One Oak, a club at 453 W. 17th St. and charged him with assault for hitting another patron above his right eye with a glass.
Police arrested two men, Aliasger Rampuwala and Kunal Vanjar, both 25, and charged them with punching a Queens man, 25, in the face at 4:25 a.m. Sat., April 12 on the sidewalk of the southeast corner of 10th Ave. and 17th St.
Motorcycle gone
A man who parked his motorcycle on 28th St. between Eighth and Ninth Aves at 4 p.m. Fri., April 11, returned at 7:24 p.m. and found it had been stolen, police said.
Under the influence
Police at the traffic check point on Ninth Ave. and 25th St. stopped a car with two passengers at 8:40 p.m. Sat., April 12, and arrested David Sheldon, 23, and Mark Moger, 21, and charged them with possession of controlled substances. Police said the suspects smelled of marijuana and there was marijuana on the floor of the car. The suspects also had cocaine, police said.
At the same checkpoint and about the same time, police stopped a driver, Quang Tran, 22, and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol.
At a traffic checkpoint on W. 26th St. between 10th and 11th Aves., police stopped Arnold Luzbet, 36, and charged him with driving under the influence of alcohol.
Vitamins and lip-gloss
A security guard at Whole Foods, 260 Seventh Ave. at 25th St., stopped a man walking out of the store shortly before 2 p.m. Sat., April 12, without paying for a box of vitamins and four tubes of lip-gloss tucked in his jacket, police said. The suspect, Anthony Loria, 51, was charged with larceny.
Sorry burglary
Isaac Kumar, 36, was charged with breaking into the apartment of an acquaintance at 120 W. 21st St. on Mon., March 31, and making off with photo equipment valued $8,000 and a shirt. He was arrested on April 3 after he had a change of heart and returned the equipment to the victim’s doorman with a note saying he was sorry, police said. The victim, who was out at the time of the break-in, spotted the suspect a few days later wearing his shirt and called police. After returning the equipment, Kumar turned himself in to the 13th Precinct. Bail was set at $2,000 pending a July 9 court appearance, according to the office of District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
‘Borrowed’ cell phone
A Lower East Side man who “borrowed” a cell phone but didn’t return it at a March 6 party at an apartment on E. 28th St. near Madison Ave., was arrested more than a month later after the victim met him again in a Chelsea club.
The victim ran into the suspect, Michael Findley, 28, of 13 Stanton St., on April 11 at Bungalow 8, the club at 515 W. 27th St., and noticed that Findley’s cell phone was the same as the one Findley had not returned on March 6. The victim called police but Findley struggled when he was being handcuffed, according to the charges. Findley is charged with petit larceny and resisting arrest, according to the complaint filed by the District Attorney.
Tools stolen
A group of five teenagers were spotted fleeing from 431 W. 25th St. in the Elliott Chelsea Houses at 10:45 p.m. Mon., April 14, when Housing Authority employees discovered that a maintenance room door that had been locked at 4:30 p.m. was forced open and tools valued at $848 were stolen.
Bank account breach
A resident of W. 22nd St. between 10th and 11th Aves. told police that he was checking up on his bank account online on Sunday evening April 13 when he discovered that someone had made an unauthorized withdrawal of $4,000.
Rape indictment
Hendrick Ajamiseba, 32, who was arrested on March 5 for the March 1 knifepoint rape and robbery of a masseuse in her W. 23rd St. studio, was indicted in State Supreme Court in Manhattan on April 15 for first-degree rape, first-degree robbery, burglary and criminal impersonation of a police officer. The defendant entered the studio under the guise of a massage customer and then demanded sex, saying he was a police officer and would arrest her if she refused, according to the indictment. If convicted, the defendant is subject to 25-year prison sentences on each of the major charges, seven years on a sexual abuse charge and four years on the impersonation charge.
