By JAMIE SCHRAM
Posted: 4:17 am
November 20, 2008
STATEN ISLAND
* A Woodrow man was arrested for brutally assaulting his 8-year-old daughter because she didn't understand something he was teaching her, authorities said yesterday.
Yong Teoh, 48, allegedly squeezed his daughter's face in their Ellsworth Avenue home near Sinclair Avenue at 2 p.m. Sunday.
The victim jerked her head back, hitting it against a wall.
Teoh then grabbed her nose, twisting it, sources said.
The girl, who suffered facial bruises, went to school the next day, and a school official noticed her injuries and called police.
Teoh was busted Monday and charged with assault, a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said.
* A man posing as an MTA employee was busted in Greenridge when he tried to board a city bus to get a free ride, authorities said yesterday.
Joseph Brown, 46, allegedly flashed an NYC Transit badge to a driver aboard the city bus at Arthur Kill Road and Richmond Avenue at 2 p.m. Monday, cops said.
When the driver asked for ID, Brown couldn't produce any and was charged with criminal impersonation, Donovan's spokesman said.
MANHATTAN
* A Greenwich Village resident was roughed up by four thieves who robbed him of his cash and cellphone, police sources said yesterday.
The 29-year-old victim was walking at West 11th Street and Seventh Avenue South at around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, when four unidentified men accosted him from behind.
The suspects knocked him to the ground and tried to cover his eyes so he could not identify them.
One of the thieves said, "Give me your money or we're going to punch you in the face."
The victim handed over $180, a debit card and a cellphone.
* A disappointed thief groaned, "Oh, man," when he demanded a large amount of cash from a teller who showed him a coin tray, police sources said yesterday.
The 5-foot-7, 170-pound suspect passed a note to the teller in a Thomas David bank on Third Avenue near East 64th Street at 12:15 p.m. Friday.
The note read, "Burglary, 100s, 50s, 20s."
Instead of coughing up bundles of cash, the teller opened a drawer, and offered the coin tray.
The would-be crook fled empty-handed.
* An Upper East Side bank robber made off with thousands of dollars only to see it blow up in his face when a dye pack exploded, police sources said yesterday.
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