Excuse me, Ms., may I rob you?
A gentleman bandit politely robbed a pedestrian of cash and a BlackBerry in Murray Hill, police sources said yesterday.
“Ms., give me your money and your phone,” Marco Weathers, 22, allegedly said to the 23-year-old victim after he pulled a gun on her at Madison Avenue and East 38th Street at 2:10 a.m. Monday, detectives said.
He fled with the woman’s smartphone and $88, sources said.
The victim flagged down a cop, who nabbed Weathers after a brief foot chase, said a DA spokesman.
Fortunately for him, the Secret Service detail had departed.
Two days after Michelle Obama dined at the Gramercy Tavern, a burglar slipped inside the famed eatery and swiped a purse, police sources said yesterday.
An unidentified man entered the establishment through a side trash-bay door at 42 E. 20th St. at 8 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
He took an elevator to the basement, walked into an office and grabbed the purse containing $100, credit cards and the owner’s ID, the sources said.
Two days earlier, the first lady had been a patron.
He was anything but camera-shy.
A burglar made off with thousands of dollars in camera equipment from a Flatiron District real-estate office, police sources said yesterday.
The intruder slipped inside World Wide Realty on 21st Street near Fifth Avenue at 9 p.m. Saturday, detectives said.
He took a Sony camera, a wide-angle lens and a wireless transmitter.
An employee discovered the theft and told police there were no signs of a forced entry.
Call him the mobile mugger.
A fast-moving thief bumped a man texting on a smartphone and grabbed it at Lafayette Street near Astor Place at noon Tuesday.
After a brief struggle, the crook made off with the digital device. The victim was not injured.
This was no act of child’s play.
A middle-aged thief assaulted two Toys ‘R’ Us workers after swiping a model car and trading cards, authorities said yesterday.
Michael Degennaro, 41, allegedly stuffed the items inside his clothing in the Marine Park store on Flatbush Avenue at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.
A male employee confronted Degennaro, who allegedly shoved him aside and pushed a second worker into a wall.
One of the employees followed Degennaro out of the store and flagged down a cop, who busted the suspect.
It was a bit of the Wild West in Bay Ridge when a bandit swiped more than $1,000 from a man and fired a bullet into the air while fleeing, authorities said yesterday.
Katosh Pantolino, 30, allegedly pulled a mask over his face and brandished a gun as he approached a 31-year-old man on Ovington Avenue near Ridge Boulevard at 8:30 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The victim tried to flee, but Pantolino grabbed $1,080 and fled while firing a single shot in the air.
Pantolino was soon busted on charges of robbery and weapon possession.
A man was charged with killing his girlfriend in their Brownsville apartment yesterday, police said.
Douglas Barnes was arrested for the murder of Janice Dunston, who had been found dead in the fourth-floor apartment on Howard Avenue near Blake Avenue at 7:20 a.m., detectives said.
She had been stabbed several times.
Barnes and Dunston had been fighting, police sources said.
Bank bandit Edward Merritt, 36, slipped a demand note to a teller in the Richmond County Savings branch on Port Richmond Avenue near Charles Avenue in Port Richmond at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 25, 2008, cops said.
The note read, “Don’t panic. Give me all the loose bills. I’m armed.”
The teller handed $2,961 to Merritt.
Acting on a tip, cops had Oklahoma authorities arrest Merritt there yesterday, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.
Extradition was pending.
A dopey intruder learned the hard way that burglarizing a home near a police station house is a bad idea.
John Figueroa, 31, was spotted by a homeowner climbing through the ground-floor window of a house on Tyrrell Street near Arthur Kill Road in Tottenville at noon Wednesday, sources said.
The homeowner chased Figueroa and flagged down a passing police patrol car from the nearby 123rd Precinct station house.
The suspect was quickly arrested on burglary charges, a spokesman for DA Donovan said.