Brooklyn
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What a brew-haha!
When a security guard confronted Rebecca Davidsson after she had walked out of a Bedford-Stuyvesant supermarket with an unpaid-for 12-pack of beer, she tried to douse him — with blistering-hot coffee, according to court documents.
Davidsson, 30, had just left Mr. Kiwi’s Fruit & Vegetable on Broadway near Myrtle Avenue at about 1 a.m. Jan. 13. When the guard called after her, she splashed the java in his direction and tried to run away, sources said.
She didn’t get far.
The court papers list her charges as assault, menacing, petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon — the cup of joe.
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With an old-school landline, things might have gone different.
A city bus driver pummeled his wife with a cordless phone, then tried choking her in their Bushwick home early yesterday, police said.
Nathan Lopez, 41, allegedly lost it while arguing with his spouse at 4:20 a.m., sources said.
He was charged with assault, strangulation, harassment and criminal possession of a weapon — the phone, cops said.
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An 18-year-old was lucky to be alive after someone shot him in the back, police said.
The unnamed teen was wounded on Pacific Street near Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights at 9:40 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
He was listed as being in serious but stable conditions at Kings County Hospital.
There had been no arrest as of last night.
Manhattan
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The body of an unidentified woman believed to have been in her 50s was found floating in the East River yesterday, cops said.
The grisly discovery was made near the FDR Drive and Jackson Street on the Lower East Side at 2:40 p.m.
Investigators said that there was no obvious sign of trauma or foul play and that it was not immediately clear how long the body had been in the water.
The Bronx
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A 7-year-old Soundview girl required hospital treatment for cuts, swelling, redness and plenty of pain after her mother repeatedly struck her in the head with a belt because, she told cops, she feared that the child would grow up and eventually control her.
Michelle Johnson, 31, assaulted her daughter at about 4 p.m. Jan. 14 in their home on Saint Lawrence Avenue near Randall Avenue, court records state.
She was taken into custody after police were alerted by staff from the local hospital.
Johnson was charged with assault, menacing, criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment, cops said.
Queens
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A late-night one-car crash cost a man his life in Ozone Park, police said.
Winston Joseph, 61, of Far Rockaway was alone in his white Toyota Camry when it rolled east on South Conduit Boulevard at 10:10 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
As he neared Linden Boulevard, the car careened out of control and slammed head-on into a tree, police said.
EMTs rushed Joseph to Jamaica Hospital, but there was nothing that could be done for him, and he was pronounced dead on arrival, investigators said.
Staten Island
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A former Great Kills resident collected about $4,000 worth of unemployment benefits for seven months while continuing to work, officials said.
Investigators from Staten Island DA Daniel Donovan’s office, the state Department of Labor and the NYPD agreed that Filippo Curto, 34, was working while accepting and cashing unemployment checks dated from July 28, 2008 through Feb. 22, 2009, according to court records.
Curto was living in Great Kills at the time, but he has since moved to Jersey City, sources said.
Prosecutors said he cashed $4,082 worth of checks while working.
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A West Brighton man mugged a passenger on a city bus, authorities said.
Rasheen Sanders, 19, grabbed a fellow rider by the shirt at about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the corner of Port Richmond Avenue and Albion Place and screamed, “Gimme your phone, or I’ll beat you up!” according to court documents.
The victim managed to hold on to his phone, and Sanders fled on foot, only to wind up in handcuffs a short time later, the court papers say.
He was charged with menacing, attempted robbery, attempted grand larceny, attempted petit larceny and attempted criminal possession of stolen property.
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Two men were under arrest after a police raid uncovered a massive pile of drugs and weapons in their Mariners Harbor home, authorities said.
Officers who descended upon the house on Grandview Avenue near Davidson Street at 6:15 a.m. Wednesday found 75 Ziploc bags filled with cocaine, PCP and marijuana as well as scales and a single 9mm bullet, although no gun was located, according to court papers.
Derrick Bloomfield, 40, and Luis Johnson, 43, were charged with possession of a controlled substance, criminal use of drug paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and possession of ammunition, the documents say.
