Keith Thomas, 41, Valerie Thomas, 47, and Lashika Thomas, 21, were arrested in their Vladeck Houses apartment at 384 Madison St. after they were found in possession of a bag of cocaine and two crack pipes with crack cocaine residue in a raid, according to prosecutors.
In a locked room, police reported finding the starving dogs and the two children. The floors throughout the apartment were covered with urine and feces, according to police who conducted the raid with a warrant.
The suspects, whose relationship was not made clear, were charged with endangering the welfare of children and with torturing and injuring animals in addition to the drug charges. The Administration for Children’s Service took charge of the boy and girl, and animal control authorities attended to the pit bulls.
Arrest in robberies
Rafael Brito, 18, was arrested on Wed., Jan. 16 and charged with three Lower East Side robberies using a fake gun in one and holding up victims at knifepoint in the others.
Police said that Brito, with an accomplice not apprehended, held up a man on Henry St. using the plastic gun on Jan. 14 two days before he was apprehended near the scene of the incident. He admitted to police that he robbed a man at knifepoint on Nov. 30 at 189 Allen St. near Stanton St. and held another victim at knifepoint on Nov. 23 at 60 Hester St. at Allen St.
Brito was charged with robbery, weapons possession for the fake gun and with resisting arrest and assaulting the arresting officer, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
Pocket slashing
A transit police officer spotted a man on an E train at the World Trade Center station slicing the pockets of two sleeping passengers at about 5:20 a.m. Sun., Jan. 13. The officer arrested Edward Hawkins, 26, and charged him with stealing a wallet from one victim and a cell phone from the other victim.
Subway mugger
A teenager who boarded a northbound No. 1 train at Rector St. at 3:30 p.m. Mon., Jan. 7 was attacked by a group of young men who punched him in the face, knocked him down, kicked him and demanded his iPod, police said. The victim refused and the robbers grabbed his wallet with $200 and fled from the train at the Canal St. station at Varick St.
iShoplifter
A security guard at the Apple computer store at 103 Prince St. at the corner of Greene St. stopped a man who was walking out of the store without paying for four software discs in his jacket pocket at 5:45 a.m. Sun., Jan. 13, police said. Scott Smith, 37, was charged with third degree burglary, larceny and possession of stolen property, according to prosecutors.
Jeans theft
Three suspects charged with shoplifting 25 pairs of designer jeans with a total value of $5,573 from the Bloomingdale’s Soho store at 504 Broadway at Broome St. on Thurs., Jan. 10 pleaded guilty on Jan. 21, according to the district attorney’s office.
David Barnett, 19, Leonard Reddick, 20, and Jaquan Seales-Acosta, 23, pleaded guilty to burglary, possession of stolen property and possession of burglary tools — a metal-lined bag.
Soho shoplift
Police arrested Maurice Cato, 36, of Brooklyn, at about 5:15 p.m. Sun., Jan. 13 in the Louis Vuitton boutique at 116 Greene St. at Prince St. for trying to walk out of the place without paying for a bag valued at $3,250, according to the district attorney’s office. The suspect was charged with grand larceny and possession of stolen property.
Mugging arrest
Police arrested a teenage girl and a 17-year-old male in connection with the mugging of a victim at the corner of Greene and Prince Sts. at 12:10 a.m. Sat., Jan. 19. The victim walked past three people dressed in black when one of them pushed him to the ground, put a black pistol to his face and said, “Gimme what you got.” They took his cell phone and a wallet with $5 and fled south on Greene St. Police arrested two of the suspects, Dashawn Whittingham, 17, and a girl, 14, and charged them with robbery.
Attempted robbery
A girl, 16, told police that two men each about 18 years old stopped her and a girlfriend in the park at Spring St. and Sixth Ave. at about 1:30 p.m. Thurs. Jan. 10 and one of them said, “Run your phone,” meaning hand over your cell phone. The victim refused and the thief grabbed her by the hair and tried but failed to get the phone, police said.
Car theft
A man who parked his red 2003 Hundai on Pearl St. at Maiden La. at 1 a.m. Tues., Jan. 15 returned at 4 a.m. and found it was stolen, police said.
Bag snatch
A woman, 59, walking on King St. between Sixth Ave. and Varick St. at 9:30 p.m. Fri., Jan. 4 felt a tug on her bag and turned to face a man pulling her bag, police said. The thief, described as a black man, 5’11” and weighing 200 pounds, fled with the bag with $300 in cash and miscellaneous credit cards, police said.
Girls hit school guard
A woman security guard at Chelsea Vocational High School on Sixth Ave. between Dominick and Broome Sts. tried to stop two 15-year-old girls from fighting on the second floor of the school at 2:45 p.m. Fri., Jan. 18. The two girls turned on the guard, punched her, knocked her down and injured her leg, police said. The girls were charged as juveniles and the guard was treated at St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Murray St. brawl
An argument that started in an unidentified Tribeca bar at about 6 a.m. Sun., Jan. 13 continued in the street and became violent on Murray St. between Church St. and W. Broadway where two men punched the victim, 28, and hit him in the face with a bottle and fled, police said. The victim, a Bronx resident, was drunk at the time and didn’t remember the bar where the dispute started, police said.
Lockers rifled
On three separate days, Jan. 4, 5 and 10, lockers at the Equinox Fitness club at 14 Wall St. were broken into and wallets were stolen, police said.
— Albert Amateau
