Borough-Wide Blotter
COMPILED BY LIZ GOFF
109th Precinct

Hunt Bank Bandit

Queens detectives are seeking help from the public to identify and locate a brazen bandit who held up a Flushing bank on July 5.

Cops said the man, described as white or Hispanic and 25 to 30 years old, walked into a Ridgewood Savings Bank branch on Parsons Boulevard and 29th Avenue at about 4:25 p.m., where he passed a note to a teller demanding cash.

The teller complied and the suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.

Anyone with information on the suspect is urged to call the Crimestoppers Hotline at 1-800- 577-TIPS.

Ghoulish Thief Nabbed In The Mud

A ghoulish thief who robbed and assaulted family members visiting a relative's grave at a Flushing cemetery on July 1 remains behind bars this week, facing child endangerment, weapons and trespassing charges.

Cops said Jose Santana, 36, jumped from behind tombstones at Mount Hebron Cemetery and lunged at his victims- a 38-year-old man, his 64- year-old mother and the man's three-year-old daughter- at about 3:30 p.m.

When the man fought back, Santana whacked him in the arm with a shovel, then reached into the family's car and grabbed $50 from the woman's purse, police said.

Santana then fled westbound across the Van Wyck Expressway, ducked into nearby Flushing Meadows-Corona Park and jumped into Meadow Lake to avoid capture, police said.

Cops who responded from the 109th Precinct caught up with Santana and spotted him ducking down in the water behind a cluster of weeds and bushes, police said.

NYPD Aviation police canvassed the area at about 50 feet, using the air current stirred up by their aircraft to bend bushes and reveal Santana's hiding place, police said.

Cops fished a muddied Santana from the lake and charged him with assault, endangering the welfare of a child, criminal possession of a weapon (the shovel) and resisting arrest. He was held in lieu of $100,000 bail at his arraignment at Kew Gardens Criminal Court.

110th Precinct

Good Samaritan Slain

Detectives in Elmhurst are questioning a suspect in the July 5 murder of a local man who was stabbed to death while trying to break up a fight between a boozed-up couple.

Cops said Pablo Callaguazo, 23, was walking with a friend at about 4:45 a.m. near Elmhurst Avenue and Hampton Street when he spotted the drunken couple engaged in a heated dispute.

Law enforcement sources said the male suspect was trying to force the woman into his home when Callaguaro intervened and tried to stop him.

The suspect pulled a knife and stabbed Callaguaro in the chest, piercing his heart.

Anyone with information on the suspect and/or his female acquaintance is urged to call the Crimestoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. The Hotline is offering a $2,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.