AN TOURIST WAS tooling around with a suspended driver’s license and a  Czech-made pistol. 

Back on the afternoon of March 15, the 22-year-old Philly man was riding around in a grey 2018 Audi S-5 when he caught the attention of officers for his shoddy driving skills. 

The screwy misses and ignorance of the rules of the road led to a traffic stop on the corner of 11th Avenue and West 15th Street. 

While pulled over, officers quizzed the man about his license — which turned out to be suspended. 

He also owed a bunch of outstanding fines to the city.  

When took the man into custody he grew the courage to tell them he also had a critical item in the Audi. 

"I have a firearm in the vehicle,” he allegedly told him, noting, “I am licensed in Pennsylvania."

Specifically, the firearm cargo was a black, 9-mm Czech- made Česká-Zbrojovka pistol loaded with 15 rounds inside the cartridge stowed in a driver side compartment.

He was snared for criminal possession of a loaded weapon and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.

YOUTHS WENT BALLISTIC after allegedly squaring off over clique affiliations. 

Several youngsters (ages ranging between 17 and 19) were booked on murder and manslaughter charges after they gunned down several kids. 

At around 5 p.m. on Feb. 11, the young assassins shot a 16-year-old boy in the back on the intersection of Broadway and West 238th Street. 

He was pronounced dead at the scene. 

Two others, a 15-year-old boy took a bullet to the right leg, and a 13-year-old girl was also hit in hers before being rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital.

Investigators suspect the flying lead was provoked by the shooters trying to war with rival cliques. 

They asked the three teens for their purported affiliation to a specific crew. The youngsters allegedly attempted to walk away when the gunslingers started blasting. 

The three suspects were rounded up three days later.

VALENTINE’S FOR ONE brute was creep on his ex lady and inflict a beating while ripping her off. 

A 27-year-old defied a court order to keep clear of a woman was suddenly interloping in the woman’s car parked on South 3rd Street off Berry Street back at around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 14. 

The suspect allegedly first yanked the woman’s cell phone out of her hands and then took the woman’s other phone that was in the center console. 

He then proceeded to whack the woman in the face and neck several times. 

The perp then took off with the devices — one of them was fitted with a magnetic wallet that was sleeving the woman’s driver’s license, debit card, and the car’s key card. 

Cops took the man into custody and charged him with robbery, grand larceny from a person (credit card), criminal possession of stolen property, assault, harassment, and petit larceny.

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THEY WERE HOPING for a happy landing on a chocolate bar. 

But no such shamrock. 

Two would be travelers, a man, 64 and woman, 37, were busted at JFK Airport trying to mule a lot of interesting lollipops. 

It was around 8:15 p.m. on March 1 when the pair were flagged by security personnel in Terminal 4 of the transport hub to have their baggage undergo a secondary screening. 

Their luggage — hers being a black Cloud Nine duffle bag and 

a Skyline suitcase for him — were double checked. 

Each contained loads of what appeared to be a chocolate candy. 

But these confections would have sent Willy Wonka’s balloon into the stratosphere — because these weren’t your average lollipops. 

A closer examination determined they were chocolate-glazed coke pops (some of them were fit with red capsules filled with blow) and they were trying to mule them on a flight. 

Pressed about what they were doing, the man piped up that he was just a candyman. 

“I been working as a courier, getting $250 a trip,” he tried to explain. “I just bring candy normally.”

As for the source of the extra sweet, sweet candies? He simply claims he was lending a hand to a pal. 

“I was doing a favor for a family friend.”

Each was facing criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree.

A HOODLUM TRAILED a Five Below manager to her office and leveled a beatdown. 

The manager was working the discount store located on Forest Avenue on the early evening of Jan. 16. 

When she headed to the back a 35-year-old woman allegedly lurked behind and once inside — imposed a smackdown. 

She grabbed the manager’s clothes and tossed her to the ground, causing her to suffer substantial pain, especially to her knee. 

The woman was busted for burglary, assault of a retail worker, assault, trespass, and harassment,

WHILE FLAGGING A moped rider for a traffic infraction — the officer discovered the rider was also lacking a valid license. That led to a search and seizure of a pistol, knuckle dusters, and MJ.

THRONGS OF NEW Yorkers gathered outside. NYC White Star Line HQ back on April 15, 1912, after the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, causing 1500 passengers to perish.

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