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Brooklyn

The suspect pictured above stole cash and a dozen boxes of cigars from an East New York bodega, authorities said. The prowler slipped beneath a metal roll-down gate outside Malik Deli and Grocery at Elton Street and Pitkin Avenue at about 3 a.m. Monday, cops said. He then helped himself to 12 boxes of cigars and about $100 cash, cops said.

A thief broke into a car and swiped a credit card in Flatbush, then went on a video-game spending spree, cops said. The joystick jerk slipped into the parked vehicle at Avenue J and East 32nd street at 6:50 a.m. on April 7 and pocketed the owner’s wallet, police said. At about 10:15 a.m., three men walked into the GameStop on Flatbush Avenue near Hillel Place and used the victim’s credit card to buy $1,306 in gaming merchandise, according to law-enforcement authorities.

Manhattan

A suspect attacked and robbed a woman in her Upper West Side apartment building, cops said. Surveillance video shows the man trailing the 23-year-old victim into the vestibule of her West End Avenue building at about 5:15 a.m. on April 10, and fiddling with his cellphone while waiting for her to ­unlock the door. In the lobby, he struck her over the head and fled with her purse. She was not seriously injured.

A suspect robbed an Upper West Side bank Friday afternoon, according to law-enforcement authorities. Police said the crook approached a teller at the Chase branch on Columbus Avenue near West 67th Street just before 4:25 p.m. and demanded money. The employee forked over an unspecified sum and the bandit dashed off. Cops said the thief didn’t display a weapon.

Staten Island

An arrest has been made in the fatal shooting of a woman at an Old Town motel, officials said. Derekson Lett, 26, was charged with murder for his alleged role in the April 4 slaying of Michele Hernandez-Vas­quez, 21, according to police. Lett was with a man who got into an argument with the victim at the Cosmopolitan Motel on Hylan Boulevard near Parkinson Avenue, cops said. Lett’s pal allegedly put a gun to the woman’s head at 3:20 a.m., and then a pimp emerged from the bathroom and struck one of the men in the head with a bottle, sources said. Lett then grabbed a gun and shot the woman in the head, cops said. Hernandez-Vsquez was rushed to Staten Island University North Hospital, where she died the next day.

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