Metro

NYPD DAILY BLOTTER

Brooklyn
The three intruders slipped through a roof door of a building on Sheepshead Bay Road near Voorhies Avenue shortly after 4 p.m on July 17.

They forced open an apartment door and hauled away computer equipment and liquor, police said.

Queens
Merlin Hill, 45, was stopped by cops on 160th Street near 110th Avenue shortly after 11 p.m. last Saturday after they spotted what looked like a wooden ax handle sticking out of his waistband, police said.

Officers searched him and found a hatchet stuffed in his pants.

According to court papers, Hill told cops, “It’s rough out here; I need to protect myself.”

He was charged with weapon possession, said a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown.

A judge ordered a psychiatric evaluation for a man caught damaging a 9/11 memorial outside a church in Ozone Park.

Daniel Lopez, 34, was arrested after cops caught him smashing the lights at the Sept. 11 memorial outside the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Church on 91st Street near Rockaway Boulevard shortly before 11:30 p.m. last Sunday.

When cops grabbed him, he confessed to the vandalism, court papers revealed.

He was charged with criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, said a DA spokeswoman.

Manhattan
The bandit passed a demand note to a teller at the Commerce branch on Hudson near Reade streets shortly after 7 p.m. Monday, cops said.

He was seen on video surveillance stuffing a fistful of cash into a bag and fleeing.

Staten Island
An argument broke out after Holvein MuÑiz, 22, refused to pay the cabdriver at the passenger’s destination at Layton Avenue near Harbor Road shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday.

According to court papers, MuÑiz pulled a knife and threatened the driver, who called cops.

MuÑiz was arrested nearby and found in possession of cocaine, police said.

He was charged with menacing, weapon possession and drug possession, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

Police are searching for the woman pictured above, who wandered away from a group home in Bulls Head.

Cops said Karen Kelly, 55 was last seen Tuesday outside A Very Special Place, a facility on Hylan Boulevard, shortly before 8 a.m.

Kelly, described as developmentally disabled, may have headed to a park or library.

Cops busted an alleged killer two weeks after a man was gunned down in New Brighton, officials said.

Elijah Scott, 28, was arrested Thursday in the murder of Grant Flemming, who was shot inside a building at the Richmond Terrace Houses on Jersey Street shortly after 2 a.m on July 7.

Cops used surveillance video from the building to identify Scott as the shooter, sources said.

Scott claimed he shot in self-defense as Flemming tried to rob him, sources said.

“We struggled for the gun, and it fired about four times,” he told cops after his arrest, court papers revealed.

He was charged with murder and weapon possession, said a Donovan spokesman.