Crime Blotter

Around 8:30 a.m. on Monday, March 21, some guys began arguing on a Bed-Stuy streetcorner. Then, as these things seem to go, they began shooting at one another. Thing is, they were terrible shots-but while none of the shooters struck his intended target, Michael Scott, 18, was shot in the leg while on his way to a deli, and 46-year-old garbageman Larry Wilford caught one in the belly while making his morning rounds. Wilford's partner, in an effort to save his own ass, ran to jump behind some boxes and twisted his ankle in the process. All three men are expected to recover, and three teenagers were arrested.

On the evening of Sunday, March 20 in Queens, hormonally overwhelmed Furman Walker, 18, asked his girlfriend to ask another girl (to whom she was talking on a cell phone) if she'd be interested in a threesome. Too bad for Walker the request was overheard by the other girl's boyfriend, the angry and jealous Pierre Delpeche, 26.

An incredibly complicated series of events followed. Delpeche insisted that his girlfriend break off her friendship with Walker's girlfriend. Walker and his girlfriend took a stab at reconciliation. A street tussle broke out involving all four people, a friend of Delpeche's, a cane and a gun. In the reverse of most such conflicts, the fight actually rolled inside the aptly named "Jerk Hut Express" restaurant. There was more slam-bang action, now with a butcher knife tossed in.

In the end, Walker's face was all cut to hell, his girlfriend was bruised about the head, and Delpeche was facing two assault charges.

In a scene straight out of any Italian heist flick, some style-conscious thieves in Harlem cut their way through the roof of United Jewelry sometime the night of Sunday the 20th, lowered themselves into the store and used a blowtorch to open the safe. According to the Post, they lifted an estimated cool half-mil in glass.

A street vendor in Flatbush with the unfortunate last name "Diallo" was hawking his wares as usual late Monday afternoon, March 21, when three cops approached him.

Now, you'd think with a name like "Diallo," this guy would know to be calm and reasonable around cops. But no, when the cops asked to speak with him, 44-year-old Moustaph Diallo took off running.

Worse, when the cops chased him down and cornered him, according to the Post, Diallo charged one of them, smacking him across the face with his forearm.

Now he's being charged with assault, menacing and resisting arrest. But at least the lucky bastard's still alive.

Brooklyn crackhead Kenneth Mitchell shoved his girlfriend around in the wee hours of the 23rd. When the cops arrived, he struggled with them, ran up to the roof of the 19-story housing complex, and just kept on running.