THE BRONX
* Police are searching for this man (above) wanted for robbing a Kingsbridge bank this month.
The thief walked into a Chase Bank branch at 5581 Broadway on July 18. He slipped a teller a note demanding cash and pulled a handgun from his waistband, cops said.
The bank employee handed over an undisclosed amount of cash and the thug fled, cops said.
Cops said the robber is a black or Hispanic man in his mid-20s, approximately 5-foot-6 with a thin build.
* One man died and another was injured after a melee escalated into a knife fight on a Tremont street, police said yesterday.
Eric Cooper, 33, and a 22-year-old man, whose name was not released, were stabbed in front of 250 E. 178th St. at 9 p.m. on Thursday during a brawl involving about two dozen people, cops said.
After Cooper and the other victim were knifed, the crowd scattered and the two wounded men were taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where Cooper died 40 minutes later, police said.
The condition of the other victim, who suffered at least one stab wound, was upgraded to stable yesterday.
Police are probing the possibility that Cooper and the other man may have stabbed each other, because the two had an argument earlier in the evening.
The surviving victim, however, has not been charged with a crime.
* A Claremont man was charged with posting child pornography on the Internet after investigators discovered he made hundreds of explicit pictures available on a public Web site, authorities said yesterday.
Seth Ritchie, 35, of Findlay Avenue, was slapped with numerous counts of promoting sexual performances by children for allegedly using the Web site “You Send It” to post pictures of adults and children – some as young as 3 – in sexual situations, police said.
The administrators of the site contacted the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, which contacted the NYPD.
Cops traced the source of the images to Ritchie’s Bronx apartment, cops said.
* An 18-year-old man was shot in the back on a Mount Eden street, police sources said yesterday.
The teen, whose name was not released, parked his car in front of 1555 Grand Concourse and was walking home when he heard a shot at 12:50 a.m. and realized he had been hit, sources said.
He walked into Bronx Lebanon Hospital, where he was treated and released for a superficial wound to his lower back, police sources said.
Police believe the injury was caused by a pellet or BB gun, sources said.
QUEENS
* Cops are asking for the public’s help in finding a Saint Albans man who has been missing for five days.
Curtis Monroe, 46, (above) was last seen at his 203rd Street home on Monday afternoon and was reported missing by his mother at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday after not hearing from him for four days, police said.
Monroe was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt and black shorts. He is 5-foot-6, weighs 170 pounds and is in “poor mental health,” according to cops.
* An Elmhurst mother was brutally attacked by a vicious rapist early yesterday, police said.
The 27-year-old wo- man was attacked at her apartment building near 111th Street and 37th Avenue at 4:30 a.m. after she walked home from calling her husband at work.
She was walking back to her apartment where her infant child was sleeping when a man punched and kicked her before putting a knife to her neck and dragging her to a hallway in the rear of the building.
The suspect, described by cops as black, approximately 35 years old, medium build, wearing blue jeans and a white T-shirt, fled the scene after robbing the woman of jewelry.
She was treated at Elmhurst Hospital and released. (s, lcf)
MANHATTAN
* Police nabbed a would-be robber after he tried to hold up a Harlem bank but was rebuffed by a teller, authorities said yesterday.
Erik Santana, 21, walked into an Amalgamated branch at 564 W. 125th St. at 11:49 a.m. on Thursday and slipped a teller a note that read “pass the money or else,” sources said.
The teller read the note and handed it back to Santana, who hightailed it out.
He didn’t get far. The bank’s security guard followed him out and called cops, who promptly arrested him, authorities said.
* A former mailroom clerk at Time Warner Music was busted for snatching seven checks totaling $119,000 from the entertainment company, police sources said yesterday.
Alberto Segura, 28, was arrested Thursday on charges he stole the checks between June 1 and July 27, sources said.
Segura, of Brooklyn, admitted swiping the checks and is charged with criminal possession of stolen property and attempted grand larceny.
STATEN ISLAND (s, lcf)
* A sanitation worker was busted yesterday after allegedly scooping up bricks from a church driveway as he made his rounds, police said.
Paul King, 37, allegedly removed the bricks from the end of a driveway of Gateway Cathedral on Boscombe Avenue in Charleston and put them in his sanitation truck on July 27.
After the truck left the area, a worker from the church told cops a sanitation worker took the bricks – worth a total of about $100 – and that they were not garbage, police said.
King was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, petit larceny and criminal trespass.
A Sanitation Department spokesperson refused to comment on the alleged theft.