Crime Blotter

WAIT, IT WAS WHO ALL ALONG? A suspected street-gang member in Queens apparently saw The Godfather for the first time last weekend. Problem was, he couldn't quite follow what was happening in that crosscut scene at the end where Al Pacino "settles all the family business" during the christening. That would explain why on Saturday night when this guy set out to settle some business of his own, he actually went to the christening itself (or at least the party afterward) and started shooting. Dozens of people dove for cover as the bullets began flying around the reception hall in Corona. In the end, the gunman shot 23-year-old Leonicio Aguilar-a member of the Latin Boys-three times, killing him.

Thirty-seven-year-old phone-book deliveryman Henry Jacobs of Brooklyn paid smugglers $9000 to sneak his intended bride, Vanessa Bailey, over here from Guyana. (The girl's mother insists that nothing of the sort happened, but everyone else says it did.) After only three weeks in the states with Henry, Vanessa decided that she didn't like him and wanted to be with someone else instead. Henry, meanwhile, having already spent $9000 to ensure her eternal love, wasn't having any of that. So on Sunday afternoon he stabbed her to death.

Speaking of tragic immigrants, Fazle Mowla, 67, moved to the city from Bangladesh eight years ago in the hopes of making enough money to support his family back home. The one luxury-if you could call it that-he afforded himself was a hearing aid. His hearing was very poor, and the new device made life much easier.

Then on Saturday night as he waited for an uptown 6 at the Canal St. station, Mowla's hearing aid-these things always happen, don't they?-fell on the tracks. Mowla (of course), jumped down on the tracks to retrieve it.

He didn't hear the train coming, nor the screams of the other people on the platform.

The Post reports that local thieves are still cashing in (at least a little bit) by robbing unexpected locales instead of those timeworn and increasingly frustrating banks. At about 11:40 Sunday night, a man walked into Mel's Locksmith in the Claremont section of the Bronx. He chatted for a bit with the 19-year-old woman behind the counter, then made as if to leave. Before he did, though, he turned, pretended to have a gun under his coat, and demanded money. The clerk handed over a whopping $65 (how much did he expect to snag at a small locksmith shop?) and the thief disappeared. No one was hurt.

Finally, a teenage Yankees fan from Staten Island, clearly stressed at the prospect of that night's game against the Red Sox, started swinging a bat at another man on the street Wednesday afternoon. Like the Yankees that night, though, 18-year-old Justin Woods swung and missed. He's being charged with menacing.