cops catch nigga doing all the stick ups in stapleton

Photo courtesy/NYPDPolice are asking for the public’s assistance in locating Alexander Molina, above, for questioning in connection with five robberies that have occurred within the confines of the North Shore’s 120th Precinct. (Photo courtesy/NYPD)

Police say they’ve caught a homeless man who went on a two-day stickup spree that started with a scary Stapleton episode in which he smashed a woman’s car window while she was inside.

Alexander Molina, 34, whose last known address was on Water Street in Stapleton, was picked up by the NYPD’s Warrant Squad yesterday morning, just hours after police released his name and photo to the press.

Before his alleged five store holdups, Molina came upon a woman sitting in her parked car on the 500 block of Vanderbilt Avenue about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, a law enforcement source said.

He broke her window and ordered her, “Give me what you have,” the source said, and she complied, handing him $40 and a cell phone.

In all, Molina’s alleged reign of terror netted him perhaps $1,000 total, the source said.

As police tell it, Molina committed five separate store robberies on Sunday and Monday:

at 8:20 a.m. Sunday, he walked into a grocery store at 4 Osgood Ave., Stapleton, went behind the counter, simulated pointing a gun through his pocket, and took cash;

at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, he hit the Stuyvesant Place Deli and Grocery at 105 Stuyvesant Pl., St. George, where he walked up to the counter, pulled out a gun and demanded cash. When a clerk gave him the money, he ran out;

at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, he went into a grocery store at 2071 Clove Rd., Grasmere, pulled a gun, walked behind a counter and demanded money;

at 4:50 a.m. Monday, he walked into the My Deli store at 200 Rhine Ave., Concord, pulled a gun, then grabbed the cash register. He ran off, carrying the cash register, and, according to a law enforcement source, smashed it to the ground to get at $475 inside;

at 7:55 p.m. Monday, he walked into the Concord Liquor Store at 548 Vanderbilt Ave., Concord, where he paraded a victim to the back of the store at the point of “a hard object” and removed cash from two separate registers.

Police have charged Molina with multiple counts of robbery, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal possession of a weapon, burglary and criminal mischief. He’s expected to be arraigned today in Stapleton Criminal Court.