POLICE BLOTTER

POLICE OFFICER THROWN DOWN STAIRS

A man spotted urinating at a South Bronx subway stop threw one of the transit officers down a staircase during the attempted arrest, causing head injuries, and injured the second officer as he was arrested in the street, police said.

Mark Steed, 31, of the Bronx, was charged with two counts of assault with intent to injure a police officer, as well as resisting arrest, urinating in public, and disorderly conduct.

Two officers of the NYPD’s Transit Bureau went to the East 149th Street subway stop of the no. 6 train on a report that suspects were illegally selling MetroCards. The officers didn’t find the scammers, but did spy a man allegedly urinating next to the elevator shaft.

The man fled when police tried to arrest him, but one of the officers caught the suspect on the stairs. The suspect struggled with the 41-year-old officer and both fell down the flight of concrete steps, causing serious injuries to the officer’s head, police said.

The suspect fled the subway station, and the second transit officer caught him out in the street, police said. The 32-year-old officer tore ligaments in his knee as he handcuffed the suspect, police said. The officer with the head injury was taken to Jacobi Hospital. Police said the officer’s motor skills were impaired by the injury, and his condition was unclear.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun

MAN ARRESTED IN FATAL STABBING OF HIS GIRLFRIEND

A Brooklyn man was arrested after he fatally stabbed his girlfriend at Flatbush, just three weeks after he paid to fly her into America from Guyana, according to police and law enforcement officials.

Henry Jacobs, 36, a Guyana native, is accused of stabbing Vanessa Bailey, 26, twice in the chest and slicing her on the arm at 2:56 p.m. yesterday at an apartment at 50 Lincoln Road near Prospect Park, police said.

Bailey was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

Mr. Jacobs was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, and a kitchen knife was recovered at the scene.

According to a law enforcement official, Mr. Jacobs said he paid $9,000 to have his girlfriend flown in from Guyana via Canada, and then he stabbed her three weeks after she arrived in this country because she wanted a new boyfriend.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun

POLICE ARREST TWO IN RAPE AND ROBBERY

Police arrested two suspects in the rape and robbery of a woman at a Greenpoint apartment last week.

A Crimestoppers tip led police to suspects Deivis Rosario, 25, and Elias Polanco, 20, both of Brooklyn. Mr. Rosario is accused of raping the 30-year-old woman, and Mr. Polanco is accused of assisting him and acting as lookout.

Both suspects were charged with first-degree rape, burglary, robbery, and assault, according to police, and Mr. Rosario was additionally charged with unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a weapon.

At 4:15 a.m. on October 11, a woman was allegedly raped and robbed inside an apartment building near the intersection of Driggs Avenue and North Eighth Street. The woman was going to visit a friend when she was allegedly jumped by the suspects in the vestibule.

The suspects demanded cash and the women told them to take what she had, but she only had $6, police said.

She tried to scream for help. The suspects started to choke her, then dragged her to a third-floor apartment, police said. Mr. Rosario hit her in the head with a bottle.

Then both suspects stripped her, and Mr. Rosario raped her while holding against her body an object he claimed was a gun, police said. The suspects then fled on foot.

Police responded to the scene when a resident heard a scream and called 911. A firearm was never recovered, and the weapon charge refers to the bottle.

– Staff Reporter of the Sun