Man arrested in connection with deadly heist

MANHATTAN Edmond Alma didn't enter a plea at his arraignment Friday on stolen-property charges. His lawyer said Alma didn't kill 71-year-old clerk Henry Menahem or even participate in a brazen midday holdup last month at R.S. Durant, a boutique on Madison Avenue.

But prosecutors got a judge's permission to put the 46-year-old Alma in a lineup related to the robbery and shooting, and police say he hasn't been eliminated as a suspect in those crimes.