Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Grinch Rips Off Playstation

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Grinch Rips Off Playstation: By Dan Gesslein BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19- Looks like a Bronx Grinch really did steal Christmas. Police are asking for the public’s h...

Grinch Rips Off Playstation

By Dan Gesslein

BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 19- Looks like a Bronx Grinch really did steal Christmas. Police are asking for the public’s help in trying to catch this holiday crook.

Investigators released a photo of a man, they say, robbed a University Heights family of their Playstation video game system, TV and an undetermined amount of cash. 

Cops say the crook pushed in a window air conditioning unit to gain access to the house. Once inside the crook made off with the items.

Police have identified the suspect as Angel Yambo, who is 39 years, 5 foot 9 and weighs 190 pounds. 

Anyone with information is urged to call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

All calls are confidential. 

Tags: Grinch, Christmas, NYPD, Robbery

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Santa is the star of show

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Santa is the star of show: By Michael Horowitz BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 18- Santa Claus, played by Co-op City locksmith Louis Loscalzo, was, once again, ...

Santa is the star of show

By Michael Horowitz

BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 18- Santa Claus, played by Co-op City locksmith Louis Loscalzo, was, once again, the star of the show at the community’s winter-holiday celebration, which was held in the auditorium of the Dreiser Loop Community Center.

Co-op City’s effervescent Santa was on hand early to accommodate the community’s delightful children. including Adam Martinez, 5; Eriella and Sienna Gonzalez, 1 ½ and 8 respectively, and Marcel Williams, 4. 

For the children, sitting on Santa’s lap was clearly the highlight of the celebration.

Among the highlights of the festivities were the lighting of the Christmas tree by representatives for City Councilman Andy King, Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, and Rep. Eliot Engel, as well as the lighting of the Chanukah Menorah by long-time shareholder Barbara Rose and the telling of the Kwanzaa story by Co-op City’s Girls Scout troop.

Adorable tots from the Garvey School and the Learning Ladder Day Care Center  spread holiday cheer, and so did singers and  dancers from the Co-op City Baptist Church, the Faith@Work Christian Church, the Cathedral United Baptist Church, and the Greater Love Baptist Church.

As in recent years, the winter-holiday celebration, sponsored by the Riverbay Fund, was a time for the community’s younger families to celebrate their children and for the community as a whole to celebrate positive aspects of life in Co-op City.

Highbridge News: 'Loko' Bandit at Large

Highbridge News: 'Loko' Bandit at Large: By Dan Gesslein BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 18- Police are asking for the public’s help in trying to track down a gunman who stuck up a conven...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): 'Loko' Bandit at Large

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): 'Loko' Bandit at Large: By Dan Gesslein BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 18- Police are asking for the public’s help in trying to track down a gunman who stuck up a conven...

'Loko' Bandit at Large

By Dan Gesslein

BRONX, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 18- Police are asking for the public’s help in trying to track down a gunman who stuck up a convenience store and a parking garage. Investigators are hoping a sketch of the suspect will spur tipsters to call.

The gunman struck most recently around 4 a.m. on December 5. Cops say the man walked into a 7-Eleven store on University Avenue and took two cans of Loko beer from the refrigerator. The suspect placed the beers on the counter, whipped out a handgun and demanded cash. The 58-year-old female clerk put $100 on the counter and the gunman fled with the cash and the beer.

Detectives from the 46th Precinct have identified the convenience store bandit as the suspect wanted for sticking up a parking garage. At around 6 a.m. on November 28, the suspect entered RG Parking Garage on Loring Place South. He went up to an employee at the garage, displayed a handgun and demanded cash. The worker forked over money and the gunman fled.