Volume One, Issue 25, March 9 - 15, 2007
Police Blotter
Union Sq. stabbing
Police charged a second teenage suspect on March 7 with attempted murder in connection with the attack, attributed to gang activity at Washington Irving High School, that broke out at Union Sq. on March 5 when four suspects beat a 16-year-old victim and stabbed him several times.
Leuis Tolentino, 17, of W. 130th St., a senior at Washington Irving, was arrested March 6 and charged the following day with attempted murder and weapons possession. Shortly after the March 5 incident, a 13-year-old student, a truant from Abraham Lincoln JHS in Brooklyn, was arrested and charged as a juvenile with gang assault. Police withheld his name because of his age but a Daily News article identified him as Brian Hodgson.
The stabbing victim, Marcus Tyrell, an East Village resident, had transferred out of Washington Irving in January to get away from gang activity and was enrolled at Chelsea Career and Technical High School on Sixth Ave. at Broome St., according to Deputy Inspector Dennis De Quatro, Ninth Precinct commander.
The incident began at about 8:45 a.m. on Monday when four youths pursued Tyrell as he came out of the 14th St. subway station, punched and kicked him, pushed him into the doors of a pizzeria at 104 E. 14th St. and left him there. At least two of them returned and stabbed Tyrell in the chest, shoulder and back with what could have been a screwdrivers or ice picks, police said. Police are seeking two other suspects. Tyrell was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition with four stab wounds.
De Quatro said the incident apparently developed from a dispute that began the previous week. De Quatro said there was no connection to the riot of teenagers last December that left Taishawn Bellevue, 17, dead and two other teens injured after a rampage in the Union Sq. Greenmarket.
Gansevoort assault
A male patron of Aer, 409 W. 13th St., in the Gansevoort Market District, was charged with hitting a woman patron in the face with glass on the dance floor of the club at about 2:15 a.m. Sat. March 3. The glass shattered, seriously cutting the victim, Joy Pilarte, 26, who required 33 stitches to close a laceration between her nose and her lip. A chard of glass also hit Pilarte’s friend, Deva Huggins, who sustained cuts on the face, police said. Ezra McCombs, 30, was charged with second and third degree assault in the incident. He was freed on $3,500 bail pending an April 4 court appearance.
Women’s room
Elaina Lopez, 26, a patron of Home, a club at 530 W. 27th St., was charged with third degree assault in connection with a 2 a.m. incident Sun. March 4 on the queue for the women’s restroom at the club. The defendant grabbed a woman who was trying to get in front of her and hit her in the face with a glass, police said. Lopez was freed on her own recognizance pending a May 1 court appearance.
Raising Cain
Bouncers at Cain, 544 W. 27th St., arrested a patron at about 2:40 a.m. Sun. March 4 after he grabbed a waitress by the buttocks, police said. The suspect, Jamel Nuseibeh, 29, fought with the bouncers and with arresting police officers and was charged with assault and resisting arrest.
Eighth Ave. arrests
Three men walked into a clothing boutique at 168 Eighth Ave. at 19th St. at about 7 p.m. Sun March 4 and began grabbing clothing off the shelves, police said. Two of them fled but a store employee held one of them and sustained a bloody nose in the struggle. Police charged Terrance Jones-McFarland, 21, with robbery and resisting arrest.
On Tues. afternoon March 6, an employee of a store at 181 Eighth Ave, stopped a man walking out with a shirt valued at $40 tucked under his arm, police said. Willie Horton, 44, was charged with larceny.
Paid the bill
A patron of Ruby Falls, 609 W. 29th St. told police that he having an argument with a bartender over his credit card invoice at about 3:40 a.m. Sun. March 4 when an unidentified bouncer grabbed him by the neck, dragged him into the kitchen and forced him to sign the invoice.
Sword and pistols
Police arrested three men at the corner of 10th Ave. at W. 21st St. at 11 p.m. Tues. March 6; one of them was waiving an unsheathed Samurai sword, another was carrying a loaded clip of 9 mm shells, and the third man had an unspecified amount of marijuana. The man with the 9mm shells was found to have a 9 mm assault rifle in his apartment, police said. Konstantine Irchak, 23, Arthur Gorenshtein, 20 and Steven Kucherovsky, 22, were charged with weapons possession.
Earlier on March 6, a resident of 10th Ave. at W. 17th St. voluntarily surrendered two unlicensed handguns, a Colt 45 and a Comanche Three 357 caliber revolver to 10th Precinct police.
Wallet gone
The manager of the Balenciaga America shop at 542 W. 22nd St. told police that she discovered a $475 leather wallet missing from the store at 5 p.m. Tue. March 6. An examination of the store surveillance tape showed a white female shoplifter taking the wallet earlier that day.
Funny money
The manager of an adult video shop at 207 Eighth Ave. at 21st St. told police that a patron came in at 3 a.m. Mon. March 5 and gave him a $10 bill for change to watch a video. On examination later, the bill proved to be counterfeit and the manager found the patron just outside the store and demanded real money. But the patron told the manager, “Go away,” and walked off. The counterfeit passer was gone by the time police arrived.
