Arrests in store burglaries, robberies: Staten Island’s top crime stories of week
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
NYPD: 39K HAUL FOR COMMERCIAL BURGLAR
Police cars are stationed in New Dorp Lane following a report of a burglary on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
A burglar stole $39,000 by raiding an ATM at a deli on New Dorp Lane and busted through a glass door and wall of an adjacent storefront to burglarize a restaurant on Forest Avenue in Mariners Harbor, authorities allege.
When officers tried pull over Juan Reyes, 39, of Graniteville, in a stolen van shortly after the restaurant caper, the suspect hit the gas and led officers on a wild chase through the streets of Mariners Harbor, according to the criminal complaint and police.
Tompkinsville man indicted on murder charge in alleged girlfriend slay
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
Natasha Colon, 38, died after she suffered a laceration to the throat inside her apartment building on Montgomery Avenue on Dec. 15, 2020, said police (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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Milton Bolton, 39, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday in state Supreme Court, St. George.
Prosecutors allege Bolton killed Natasha Colon, 38, on Dec. 15.
Her throat had been cut, said authorities.
Bolton was Colon’s boyfriend, according to a law enforcement source.
Police said officers responded at about 8:45 p.m. to the couple’s apartment inside a multi-family building on Montgomery Avenue, between Fort Place and Victory Boulevard.