POLICE BLOTTER

10th Precinct crime down
There was an 11.55 percent decrease in the seven major crime categories in the 10th Precinct in 2007.The decrease in Chelsea outpaced the citywide decrease of 6.2 percent from the previous year and the Manhattan South decrease of 6 percent.

There were no murders reported in the 10th Precinct last year compared with four in 2006. Rape also declined, with eight reported last year compared with 10 the previous year.

There was a 14.5 percent decrease in robbery, with 147 reported last year compared to 172 the previous year. However, felony assaults — most attributed to club incidents — remained the same, with 156 reported last year and in 2006. Burglary declined 38.9 percent, with 108 reported in 2007 compared to 177 the previous year. Grand larceny declined 5 percent with 827 last year compared to 871 the previous year. Auto theft was down 29.6 percent, with 64 reported last year compared to 91 in 2006. Despite the decrease in crimes reported, the 10th Precinct had 20.4 percent more arrests, with 424 last year compared to 352 the previous year.


Club rape
A woman, 19, visiting from Massachusetts, told police she was raped in the women’s restroom of Cain, the club at 544 W.27th St., during the early hours of Fri., Jan. 4. The victim said she and three friends were ordered to leave their IDs at the door of the club when they entered at 2:30 a.m. When they were leaving two hours later, they were directed to the women’s restroom where a man demanded oral sex in return for the IDs. The three refused and left but the suspect grabbed the victim, brought her back to the restroom and demanded sex in return for her ID. When she refused, the suspect pulled off her hose and panties, lifted her onto the sink and raped her, according to police. He then demanded that she perform oral sex, but she fled. She reported the incident from her midtown hotel and was taken to Bellevue Hospital, police said.


Sentence in DWI fatal
Eugenio Cidron, 28, was sentenced on Jan. 3 to three and a half years to 10 years in prison for vehicular manslaughter after a plea of guilty in the December 2006 death of a bicycle rider struck on the Hudson River Park bike path at Clarkson St.

Cidron was driving from an office party on Chelsea Piers when he turned down the bike path instead of the West Side Highway and struck and killed Eric Ng, 22, a New York University math teacher. Cidron, a Queens father of two, tested .16, twice the legal limit in a field alcohol test, and had driven about a mile down the bike path when he struck the victim.


Murder sentence
Stephen Sakai, the bouncer who was charged with the May, 2006 shooting outside Opus 22, the club at 559 W. 22nd St., where one man was killed and three others were injured, was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison on Jan. 3 for killing two associates, stabbing one and shooting the other, a year earlier in Brooklyn. Sakai, whose real name is Stephen Sanders, is scheduled to go on trial for the Chelsea homicide on Jan. 28.


Girls accuse teacher
Richard Dulberg, 32, a teacher at the High School for the Physical City, 55 E. 25th St., surrendered to police on Jan. 3 after four girl students, 14 and 15 years old, accused him of soliciting dates with them in return for good grades. He was charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, according to a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s office, which has been investigating the charges. Dulberg has denied the charges and is free pending a Feb. 13 court appearance.


Cab driver robbed
Police arrested Catherine Patterson, 44, shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sun., Dec. 30 and charged her with taking $150 from a cab driver in front of 7 W. 14th St., after the driver rebuffed her amorous advances.

The suspect, a Brooklyn resident, got into the front seat of the cab while it was stopped at a red light, and asked the driver to kiss her and then said she wanted to have sex with him because she liked Indian men, according to a New York Post report. When the driver refused, the suspect grabbed a cup with the money and fled on foot. The driver gave chase and the suspect was apprehended and held for police.


Shoplifting
Charles Jackson, 41, was arrested in the Gap store at 122 Fifth Ave. near W. 17th St. at 6:30 p.m. Thurs., Jan. 3 when a security guard saw him stuff 52 articles of clothing into a garbage bag and try to walk out without paying. He faces charges of third degree burglary and first degree grand larceny.

Wallace McColough, 47, was arrested Saturday evening Jan. 5 and charged with larceny for trying to walk out of Gristedes, 307 W. 26th St., without paying for two packages of bacon, three bags of Gummy Bears and four bars of chocolate.

— Albert Amateau