Police Blotter
SIXTH PRECINCT
E. 10th St. burglars
A man and woman broke into and
robbed an apartment earlier this month
at 32 E. 10th St., between Broadway
and University Place, police said. On
Wed., Aug. 14, around 8 a.m., the unidentifi
ed couple entered the apartment
of a 31-year-old woman. Police said it
was unclear how they got inside. Once
inside the place, they took about $5,200
worth of jewelry and electronics, before
fl eeing in an unknown direction.
Apartment robbery
There was a robbery inside an apartment
near Sixth Ave. and 12th St. last
week, according to police. On Thurs.,
July 25, at 1:25 a.m., a man, 38, invited
another man he knew to the residence.
Once inside the apartment, the victim
and other man got into an argument,
which turned into a physical dispute.
The man punched the victim several
times in the face before taking a cell
phone and laptop. He then fl ed with
another man who was waiting in the
lobby. E.M.S. medics responded to the
scene but the victim refused medical
attention.
Debit-card theft
A health aide stole thousands of dollars
from a woman’s debit cards, according
to a police report. The crimes
occurred in April and were reported on
Aug. 8. A 75-year-old woman trusted
her health aide with her debit cards to
run errands, police said. The aide went
to several ATM’s and withdrew money
without permission, totaling about
$28,000. The victim’s bank said that
the aide went into a branch and also
tried to cash a $4,000 check. The
cards have since been canceled. On
Aug. 19, Zabrina Harlow, 44, was arrested
for felony grand larceny.
‘Hamburglars’
Two men used a stolen credit card
earlier this summer to buy food at the
Wendy’s at 20 E. 14th St., between
University Place and Fifth Ave., according
to police. On Sat., June 15, the pair
used the card, which they had stolen
from a 22-year-old woman as she was
walking at Washington and Clarkson
Sts. Police described one of the men
they are looking for as a dark-skinned
Hispanic man, last seen wearing a gray
shirt and black pants.
SEVENTH PRECINCT
Mug Rutgers senior
Police said that on Tues., Aug. 20, at
2:30 p.m., inside 170 Madison Street,
in the Rutgers Houses, an 89-year-old
man entered an elevator with an unidentifi
ed man. Once the victim exited
on the fourth fl oor, the younger man
proceeded to punch him multiple times
in the back of the head, causing him
to fall on his face. The attacker took
$50 off of the victim and fl ed in an
unknown direction. The victim was removed
to Bellevue Hospital in serious
but stable condition. He was treated for
a laceration to the head requiring four
staples and a broken orbital bone. Anyone
with information should contact
Crime Stoppers.
LaGuardia job
On Fri., Aug. 9, around 12:30 a.m., a
man with a lot of cash in his apartment
at 65 Jefferson St., in the LaGuardia
Houses, was in his bedroom with three
associates, when he heard a disturbance
in another room, police said.
The victim, 28, proceeded to check
the room, only to fi nd two unidentifi ed
males wearing ski masks and displaying
guns, who demanded cash from
him. The victim complied and they fl ed
the place with $20,000. No injuries
were sustained. Anyone with information
should contact Crime Stoppers.
1OTH PRECINCT
Penn Station slashing
There was a slashing on Mon., July
22, at the 34th St./Penn Station subway
station, according to police. Around
2:30 p.m., a 32-year-old man was at
the subway station, when another
man said something to him. Then,
without warning or provocation, the
stranger slashed the man on the left
side of his face. The attacker fl ed in
an unknown direction. The victim
was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital in
stable condition.
Tried to stiff cabbie
On Fri., Aug. 23, at 2:15 a.m., a
woman refused to pay her taxi fare at
Ninth Ave. and W. 23rd St., police said.
When police offi cers tried to get her
to fork over the $19 fare, she reportedly
became irate and tried to punch
one of them. The woman was searched
and found to be in possession of an alleged
controlled substance. Chelsea
Colson, 28, was arrested for obstructing
government administration, a misdemeanor.
Spray, hey!
A 32-year-old man was attacked by a
stranger at 11th Ave. and W. 34th St.,
police said. The victim was crossing
the street at the corner, when a stranger
walked up to him and sprayed a substance
in his eyes, then fl ed in an unknown
direction. The victim, who told
police his eyes were burning from the
substance, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
There was no further description
available of the sprayer, who is wanted
for misdemeanor assault.
Gabe Herman
and Lincoln Anderson
Man arrested in rampage of wild attacks
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Police on Saturday announced
an arrest of a homeless man in
a string of at least four random
attacks — and possibly more — on pedestrians
in the Village and Chelsea
area. In at least one of the assaults, he
reportedly made anti-white statements.
According to cops, Todd Lyons, 33,
of the Barbour Hotel, at 333 W. 36th
St., was arrested Fri., Aug. 23, at 5:30
p.m., and charged with three counts of
assault as a hate crime and three counts
of assault.
The New York Post reported that
a vocational counselor, Gregory Magliore,
at the Barbour Hotel, tipped off
police after seeing a shirtless attacker
in video circulated of the suspect. Lyons
frequently went around shirtless,
he said.
The Barbour is a 95-unit supportivehousing
residence where Lyons started
living in mid-August, according to the
Post. Magliore sensed the man was
a bit off when he was admitting him
and thought he “may be going through
something.”
Police said that Lyons started his
rampage on the evening of Fri., Aug.
9. Around 9:11 p.m., a 56-year-old
man was walking in front of 65 Fifth
Ave, between 13th and 14th Sts., when
the suspect pushed him from behind,
knocking him down, then fl ed. The
victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital
where he was treated for a head laceration
and bruising and body pain.
Then, a few days later, according to
police, on Wed., Aug. 14, around 8:37
p.m., a 64-year-old woman was walking
along Greenwich Ave. past Jackson
Square Park, near Eighth Ave., when
Lyons suddenly struck her on her neck
and shoulder with a wooden stick, then
ran off. The victim was treated at the
scene for pain and redness where the
attacker had hit her. Lyons reportedly
has not been charged in this case yet,
however.
In a third incident, about 40 minutes
later that same night, a 20-year-old
woman was walking in Soho on Wooster
St. just north of Canal St., when the
same man, according to police, snuck
up behind her and threw a brick at the
back of the head, then fl ed. The victim,
who suffered a bruise to her head, was
treated at the scene.
Allegedly circling back north to
Chelsea, Lyons two hours later is said
to have targeted a 58-year-old man
strolling along Eighth Ave. between
19th and 20th Sts. Police said he struck
the victim in the face and made antiwhite
statements, then fl ed westbound
on 18th St.
The Post reported Lyons yelled at this
victim, as he punched him, “Get off the
street, honky! You f—ing honky, you
don’t belong here!”
The victim sustained a bloody nose
but refused medical attention at the
scene.
In no instance did the attacker have
any previous exchange with his victims
before assaulting them.
The Post additionally reported that
the Police Department’s Hate Crime
Task Force is investigating if the suspect
is linked to three other incidents: Lyons
allegedly attacked two other people on
Fri., Aug. 16, including a 25-year-old
woman at 1:30 p.m. in front of the
Google building, at 111 Fifth Ave., between
15th and 16th Sts., and also a
72-year-old man on Union Square East
at E. 15th St.; he is also suspected of
assaulting a 64-year-old woman at Seventh
Ave. and 14th St. at 6:30 p.m. on
Fri., Aug. 23.
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