TV anchor in Chelsea arrest
A television news anchor from Philadelphia was arrested at Ninth Ave. near W. 17th St. shortly after 2 a.m. Sun., Dec. 16 and charged with second-degree assault for punching a plainclothes police woman in the face, police said.
Alycia Lane, 35, the anchor for KYW-TV, and a male friend were in a cab behind three on-duty plainclothes officers whose unmarked police car stopped at a red light. Lane’s companion, Chris Booker, a former disc jockey, got out to tell the driver to move faster.
Police said the officers, two men and a woman, identified themselves as police on duty, but an argument ensued. Lane got out of the cab and began photographing the confrontation, and the woman officer told Lane, “You can take pictures but you have to stand back,” police said. Police said Lane called the officer a “dyke bitch” and hit her in the face.
Lane and Booker were taken to the 10th Precinct, where Lane was charged with assault.
Her lawyer, David Smith, said Lane did not hit or make derogatory comments to anyone, according to a New York Post article.
Smith also said another couple was in the cab with Lane and Booker, but police said they were the only two people present. Lane was freed without bail pending an April 3 court appearance.
Menace girl student
The father of a 16-year-old girl who attends the High School for the Humanities, 351 W. 18th St., told police on Wed. Dec. 12 that a group of girls menaced his daughter in the school. One said, “We don’t like you,” and another threatened, “I don’t know when, I don’t know when, but we are going to jump you.” The girl’s father, a resident of the East Village, told police he would seek to transfer his daughter to another school for safety.
Girl beaten
A girl, 16, told police that she was attacked and beaten on the northeast corner of Eighth Ave. at W. 24th St. shortly before 4 p.m. Fri. Dec. 14 by a girl, her male cousin and several other people. The victim had a clump of hair torn from her head, according to police who are investigating the incident.
Cop assault
A 10th Precinct police officer was arresting a suspect for disorderly conduct at 3:30 p.m. Mon. Dec. 17 at the northwest corner of Eighth Ave. at W. 16th St. when the suspect hit him in the face, police said. Richard Esquilin, 17, was charged with assault.
Bank job arrest
Two 13th Precinct police officers on a meal break spotted a man walking away from the Sovereign Bank branch at 251 Park Ave. S. at E. 21st St. at 1:55 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 13 soon after a dye pack of cash exploded in his hands, police said. The officers gave chase and arrested Anthony Bishop, 36, and recovered $3,480 of the money they charged him with stealing from the bank.
Pushed to tracks
Police arrested Tenesha Thompson, 24, of the Bronx on Monday evening De. 10 on the Q train platform of the Union Sq, subway station and charged her with pushing a woman passenger to the tracks shortly before a train pulled into the station. A man and a woman who jumped onto the track pulled the victim to safety, according to a New York Post article. The victim, a mother of a 13-year-old daughter, was shaken but unhurt. Thompson faces charges of third-degree assault and reckless endangerment.
Diner threat
The owner of Blue Moon Diner, 150 Eighth Ave. at W. 16th St., told police on Mon. Dec. 10 that a customer had made a menacing call threatening him and his employees. The man later turned up in person and said, “You remember me? You remember me? You will when I come and get you all,” according to a police report.
Door burns
An unidentified arsonist set fire to the door of a seventh-floor apartment at 427 W. 26th St. in the Elliott Chelsea Houses shortly before 5 p.m. Tues., Dec. 18, police said.
Assault and mischief
Police arrested Joshua Knight, 32, during the early hours of Friday Dec. 14 and charged him with assault and criminal mischief while being escorted out of Westside Tavern, 360 W. 23rd St., at 1 a.m. Knight fought with the bouncer, punched him in the face and cracked the glass front door of the bar with a kick, police said.
Club thefts
A woman patron of MIST, the club at 511 W. 28th St., put her Armani jacket and bag behind her table in the rear of the club around 1 a.m. Sat., Dec. 15 and discovered they were gone an hour later, police said. The bag had $100 in cash, a cell phone, a pocket electronic device and several credit cards.
A woman patron of Bungalow 8 at 515 W. 27 St., told police on Sun. Dec. 16 that her credit cards were lifted from her bag while she was in the club the previous week and that someone had made unauthorized charges of $1,300.
Identity theft
A resident of 555 W. 23rd St. told police on Mon., Dec. 17 that he was checking his bank accounts online and discovered that two unauthorized withdrawals totaling $3,000 had been made from one account on Dec. 12, and on Dec. 14 an unauthorized withdrawal of $3,000 had been made from an account in another bank. The victim said he still had the ATM cards from both banks.
A resident of 239 W. 15th St. told police that he was checking his account at the Citibank branch at 111 Eighth Ave. on Mon., Dec. 17 and discovered that a $3,000 unauthorized withdrawal had been made from his account two days earlier. The victim still had his ATM card from the bank.
A midtown resident told police at the 10th Precinct on Mon. Dec. 17 that an unauthorized withdrawal of $600 had been made from his account at the Citibank branch on Dec. 1 and a $3,000 unauthorized withdrawal had been made from the same account on Fri., Dec. 14, although he never lost the bank card.
— By Albert Amateau
