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The feds busted 27 owners and employees of wire-transfer stores in a money laundering crackdown, after they were allegedly caught sending more than $2 million in drug proceeds to Colombia. The 24 stores are in Queens, Westchester and Long Island.

Informants brought proceeds from “manteca” and “perico,” Spanish code names for heroin and cocaine, to the stores and asked that the funds be sent to money launderers in Colombia. The suspects made up fake sender information, the feds said.

MANHATTAN

An enraged sibling bashed her brother in the head with a telephone because he lost pictures of their deceased mother, authorities said yesterday.

Samantha Mays, 24, of Bushkill, Pa., was arrested Monday in Harlem on charges assault and attempted assault, the DA’s Office said.

The attack occurred at 4:20 p.m. in her brother’s apartment on Seventh Avenue near West 144th Street, the sources said. The victim, 36, suffered a cut above the eye.

A 26-year-old man is clinging to life after he was stabbed on a Washington Heights Street, police sources said.

The unidentified victim was in front of 601 W. 177th Street yesterday when he was approached by two men who stabbed him three times. Sources said the three knew each other.

A Bronx man was arrested for beating a stranger over a parking spot in lower Manhattan, police sources said yesterday.

Lembenskie Payne, 42, of Mott Haven, pummeled the 23-year-old victim in the face at Lafayette and Walker streets at 4 p.m. Tuesday, the DA’s Office said.

The victim suffered a split lip and swollen left cheek. He was released after treatment at Bellevue Hospital.

Payne fled, but returned an hour later and was busted on assault charges.

A student was arrested for punching a classmate in the nose in a Lower East Side school, police sources said yesterday.

Benjamin Reid, 19, and the 18-year-old victim were enrolled in the GED Program at Tenzer Learning Center on Forsyth Street, where the attack occurred in a hallway at noon Tuesday, the sources said.

Police arrested Reid on an assault charge.

A knife-wielding assailant stabbed a man in the head after catching the victim with his ex-girlfriend, authorities said yesterday.

Nabuu Simmons, 27, went to his former gal pal’s Park Avenue apartment in Harlem at 5 a.m. Feb. 1 and knocked on her door, sources said.

The victim, 24, answered and Simmons became belligerent.

Simmons pulled a pocketknife and stabbed the man in the head, the DA’s Office said. Simmons fled, but was tracked down Tuesday and charged with assault.

BROOKLYN

Cops grabbed one of four thieves who robbed a female worker at knifepoint in a Bedford-Stuyvesant grocery store, authorities said yesterday.

Jinol Romero, 19, was busted Tuesday on charges of menacing and robbery in the Jan. 21 incident on Chauncey Street near Patchen Avenue, cops said.

The foursome barged into the bodega, where Romero and one cohort confronted the employee, cops said.

The accomplice put a knife to the victim’s throat and forced her to the back of the store.

The other two then allegedly stuffed food into a garbage bag and fled.

The woman was not hurt. The three accomplices are still being sought.

A Sheepshead Bay man was arrested for terrorizing a bouncer who had turned him away from a nightclub, cops said yesterday.

The incident took place at 7:35 p.m. on Dec. 18 when the 21-year-old victim in his car noticed he was being followed down Ocean Avenue by a BMW driven by Malkiel Berlianshik, 25, of East 23rd Street, cops said.

After the victim stopped at a red light, Berlianshik and three cohorts got out of their car and smashed the back windshield of the victim’s Nissan Ultima, cops said.

Two days later, the victim went to a repair shop in Brighton Beach, where he got a $1,000 estimate for his damaged car and walked outside.

Suddenly, Berlianshik pulled up in a Mercedes and, through an open window, Maced the victim in the eyes, cops said.

The victim called 911 after Berlianshik fled.

Cops nabbed Berlianshik Tuesday on charges of assault, menacing and harassment.

It was not immediately clear when the confrontation at the club had taken place.

STATEN ISLAND

A St. George man was busted for attempting to molest a 9-year-old female relative, authorities said yesterday.

The 35-year-old man, whose name The Post is withholding to protect the identity of his victim, was arrested at 7:50 p.m. Tuesday for allegedly cornering the girl in the bathroom of his home on Sunday and ordering her to remove her clothing.

Another relative heard the girl scream, barged into the bathroom and pulled her away.

The pervert was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful imprisonment, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

A woman was nabbed for cashing bogus payroll checks in Stapleton, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Shamekia Fagin, 22, allegedly walked into One Stop Check Cashing on Broad Street at 5:05 p.m. on Jan. 9 and cashed a $745.81 counterfeit check.

Fagin, who was arrested at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, is charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, a spokesman for DA Donovan said.

A Greenridge drugstore cashier swiped a customer’s wallet and used her credit card to buy products at another store, authorities said yesterday.

Chris Marchetti, 18, was caught on surveillance tape palming a wallet a patron left on a counter at a Duane Reade on Richmond Avenue at 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 29, law-enforcement sources said.

About 90 minutes later, Marchetti allegedly went to a Walgreens on Arthur Kill Road, pulled his hood around his face and bought $181 worth of products, authorities said.

Duane Reade security guards found the customer’s wallet, minus the credit card, in the store.

The suspect was arrested at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday charged with grand larceny, petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, according to a spokesman for DA Donovan.

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