NYPD Blotter

Staten Island
It wasn't worth it.
A gun-wielding bandit went to the trouble of robbing a Tompkinsville store for a measly $10, authorities said yesterday.
Joshua Branch, 18, pulled an apparent firearm wrapped in a plastic bag and asked for the paltry sum from the cashier in a discount store on Victory Boulevard near Cebra Avenue at 5:54 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The cashier handed Branch ten $1 bills, sources said.
The cashier called 911, and Branch was soon in handcuffs.
A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Branch was charged with robbery.

A would-be thief vowing he wouldn't go back to jail ended up there after assaulting a cop, authorities said yesterday.
A high-ranking police officer spotted William Burke, 28, and an accomplice, James Gugliara, 31, allegedly breaking a window at a barbershop on Amboy Road and Station Avenue at 7 a.m. Sunday, sources said.
The suspects, wearing bandannas to partially hide their faces, fled in a car.
The cop followed and called for backup.
Other officers nabbed the pair in a parking lot near the barbershop.
While being arrested, Burke allegedly screamed "I'm on probation and I'm not going back to jail," then kicked one of the officers in the groin.
The suspects were hit with various charges including attempted burglary.

Brooklyn
Talk about bad timing.
A passer-by was beaten by three belligerent assailants who had just been ejected from a Flatlands bar, authorities said yesterday.
Mariano Ramirez, 25, Louis Dominguez, 27, and Antonio Hernandez, 28, got tossed out of the saloon on Avenue U near East 55th Street at 1:33 a.m. Monday, cops said.
Moments later, the trio encountered the 48-year-old victim and began hassling him, sources said.
When the victim attempted to flee, the thugs allegedly stabbed him in the back and arm.
A witness called 911, and the suspects were arrested on charges of gang assault and menacing.
The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
What pee brains.
A pipe-wielding thug smashed the car of a man who had urinated in front of the suspect's Cypress Hills home, authorities said yesterday.
Julio Xicotencatl, 34, shouted at the victim urinating in front of the residence on Fulton Street near Cleveland Street at 4 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.
The victim fled but soon returned to his 2006 Nissan Maxima parked near Xicotencatl's home, police said.
Xicotencatl and two accomplices then allegedly grabbed pipes and took out their fury on the Maxima.
The victim fled and called 911, and Xicotencatl was busted on charges of menacing and criminal mischief. The cohorts are at large.
Two robbers made off with $125,000 after sticking up a car-dealership employee making a bank drop in Bay Ridge, police sources said yesterday.
One bandit approached the 26-year-old employee and snatched the bank-drop bag at a TD branch on Fifth Avenue near 82nd Street at 5:15 p.m. Monday, cops said.
The other thief grabbed for the victim's cellphone, but fled with the cohort when the victim ran.

Manhattan
Two thugs assaulted and robbed a man in Chelsea, police sources said yesterday.
Christian Palencia, 22, and an accomplice confronted the 28-year-old passer-by on 20th Street near Ninth Avenue at 12:40 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
Palencia allegedly slugged the man in the face and swiped his car keys, cellphone and wallet.
Police soon arrested Palencia on robbery charges while the cohort got away.
A sticky-fingered shoplifter was busted with $3,000 in purloined merchandise from the Upper East Side Barneys, police sources said yesterday.
Nicole Freeman, 23, grabbed unspecified items off a rack in the tony shop at Madison Avenue and 61st Street at 7:16 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
A security guard nabbed Freeman as she stepped outside and tried to flee, cops said.
A DA spokeswoman said Freeman was charged with grand larceny.

Bronx
An argument led to a slaying in Edenwald, police said yesterday.
The body of Junior Smalling, 35, was found in a Nissan Maxima on Dyre Avenue near Light Street at 2:40 p.m. Monday, police said.
Witnesses say Smalling was arguing with a man who pulled a gun and shot him dead.