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Police Blotter, Week of Sept. 27, 2012

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A screen grab from a surveillance video provided by police, showing the alleged attempted-rape suspect inside the E. Sixth St. building on Dec. 28.

Two-on-one assault
Police arrested two men after they punched out another man after a street argument in the West Village early on Sat., Sept. 22.

Ramil Akhmedov and Stanislav Savitsky, both 22, got into a heated verbal dispute with a 32-year-old man around 3 a.m. that morning on the corner of Thompson and W. Third Sts. After exchanging one too many words, the two aggressors started repeatedly punching their victim in the face, leaving him with cuts and bruises, according to the report.

Officers quickly arrived on the scene, arrested both men for assault and had the victim trucked off to Beth Israel Medical Center with minor injuries. Once they had Akhmedov and Savitsky in custody, officers searched their car parked down the street, and also busted them for an allegedly marijuana-filled cigar that was found in the vehicle.

Chased with butcher knife
Forget about the treadmill — you can always get in some good cardio by sprinting away from a disgruntled knife-wielding restaurant employee in the West Village.

That’s just what one man, 28, did early on Sat., Sept. 22, outside the Fatty Crab, at 643 Hudson St. The encounter began when the man walked past the restaurant around 4 a.m. and exchanged insults with Javid Dore, 25, an employee who was apparently hanging around long after the place had closed at midnight, police said.

When the dispute heated up, Dore walked into the restaurant, took a butcher knife from the kitchen and stepped back outside. After brandishing the knife, according to the report, Dore began chasing the unsuspecting man, and the two eventually took a few laps around the block before cops showed up and halted the incident. Dore was arrested for menacing.

Club dropping
A teenager trying to sneak into a trendy Meatpacking District nightclub on Fri., Sept. 21, got a rude awakening when he crashed through an awning and ended the night in cuffs.

Andres Munoz, 19, was trying to scale the scaffolding outside Cielo, at 18 Little W. 12th St., around midnight in order to get in through the back entrance, police said. But he slipped and fell, breaking the club’s awning before smashing into a 21-year-old woman who was walking out of the club. Neither Munoz nor the unsuspecting victim was seriously injured, but Munoz was collared for criminal mischief.

 Cuffed for Reese’s Cups
You could say it was a bittersweet arrest.

Mikal Bell, 32, was nabbed for attempted petty larceny outside a candy store at Sixth Ave. and W. Fourth St. on Thurs., Sept. 20, after trying to make off with $30 worth of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, police said.

The officers who arrested Bell around 1 p.m. also found a stolen wallet in his possession, which was quickly identified as belonging to a woman who had recently reported it missing. The woman’s two credit cards were recovered, but Bell had made a pricey purchase with one of them, spending more than $350 at a store on W. 14th St. He was also charged with criminal possession of stolen property.

Sheridan subway attack
Police nailed two of the suspects in a vicious subway robbery on Thurs., Sept. 20, but the third slipped away in the heat of the moment.

The victim, a 35-year-old woman, was sitting on a platform bench at the Christopher St.-Sheridan Square No. 1 train station around 6:30 p.m. when the trio of thugs — Jonathan Rodriguez, 21, Tataina Awer, 19, and an unknown member — aggressively approached. The victim told police that Rodriguez punched her several times, and while she was down, the female, Awer, snatched her wallet. The third suspect, she said, tried to grab her cell phone, and smashed it in the process.

The lucky member of the trio apparently escaped while cops were apprehending Rodriguez and Awer in the station, and hasn’t been identified.

Murder suspect pleads
The man charged with brutally murdering his younger girlfriend last April pleaded guilty on Mon., Sept. 24, and will receive between 15 years to life in prison.

Raul Barrera, 34, who made his name as a high profile fashion publicist, had been accused of repeatedly stabbing Sarah Coit, 23, until she died in agony, leaving her partially beheaded and with her internal organs exposed. The killing took place in the couple’s apartment on Clinton St.

Coit was the daughter of Lynde Coit, a millionaire lawyer and senior advisor to the C.E.O. at Plasco Energy Group, Inc.

Barrera will be sentenced after a Manhattan Supreme Court judge hears evidence from both sides in the coming weeks.

Anti-gay slash attack
The man who sliced the boyfriend of a transgender woman with a boxcutter in the West Village last week turned himself in to police on Mon., Sept. 24.

Keith Patron, 44, started hurling insults at his 22-year-old victim inside the McDonald’s at Sixth Ave. and W. Third St. on Sept. 19, after the man’s transgender girlfriend walked into the women’s bathroom, police said. The two men then stepped outside onto the sidewalk, where Patron slashed him with the razor blade.

Patron confessed to the crime after turning himself in at the 42nd Precinct station in the Bronx, the New York Post reported. He has been charged with assault.

Punched her for purse
Cops are looking for a suspect who allegedly punched and robbed a woman on the Lower East last week.

The suspect is believed to have followed the 25-year-old victim into a building on Allen St. near Hester St. around 4:30 p.m. on Tues., Sept. 18, where he hit her twice in the face, police said. While the woman was down, he then grabbed her purse and took off running down Allen St.

Police described the wanted man as in his late 30s. He was wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and white sneakers.

Brut-al shoplifters
Two young men who went on a five-month theft spree, targeting four different Duane Reade drugstores and racking up $11,000 worth of stolen cologne, have finally been caught.

Christophe Santos, 18, and Luis Jiminez, 21, were arrested on Wed., Sept. 19, the New York Post reported. Police were able to identify the crooks using video surveillance images captured during each one of their heists.

The scented crime escapade began with a May 18 incident at the Duane Reade on Bowery near Canal St., when the duo walked out with about $1,600 worth of perfume, according to court records.

Santos and Jiminez’s biggest haul came on Aug. 23, when they escaped with $3,500 worth of cologne from the Duane Reade on Third Ave and E. 14th St.

They later headed uptown to rob a branch of the chain at 773 Lexington Ave. on July 24. After that, the duo struck two times at the store’s W. 51st St. location, the second of which was their last fragrance filching, taking place on Sept. 12.

Santos and Jiminez were both charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, the records state.

Sam Spokony