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*** A thug was arrested for beating and stabbing a man in a Bedford-Stuyvesant robbery, authorities said yesterday.

The incident began at 11:30 p.m. Sunday, when the 34-year-old victim approached Randell Daniel, 19, at Fulton Street and Albany Avenue seeking to buy marijuana, sources said.

Daniel had the victim accompany him into a nearby apartment building, where Daniel and two accomplices pounced on him, the sources said.

The trio allegedly punched, kicked and stabbed the victim in front of Daniel’s apartment.

They then dragged the victim outside and continued the assault, the sources said.

Cops arrived, and Daniel told them he and his accomplices attacked when the victim tried to break into Daniel’s apartment.

But cops found no evidence of forced entry.

Daniel was arrested and charged with assault, robbery and menacing. The victim was treated at Kings County Hospital.

*** A man was arrested for smashing a woman with a bottle in an argument on a Bushwick street, authorities said yesterday.

The violence occurred at 1:10 a.m. Sunday, when the 39-year-old woman tried to settle a dispute between her friend and the friend’s boyfriend, sources said.

Pedro Flores, a buddy of the boyfriend, was also present and hit the woman in the head, knocking her to the ground, sources said.

Flores then allegedly smashed the woman in the head with a beer bottle.

The victim called cops, who arrested Flores.

The victim was treated for lacerations at Woodhull Hospital.

*** A decomposing body was found in Canarsie yesterday, stuffed in the trunk of a black Mercedes-Benz bearing Maryland plates, authorities said.

Passers-by called police at 11:30 a.m. to report a foul odor coming from the trunk of the 2000 Benz at East 95th Street and Avenue M.

Police arrived, popped the trunk and found the body of an unidentified man.

Detectives were awaiting medical-examiner autopsy results.

*** Police yesterday were investigating an apparent bias incident in which a vandal spray-painted a pro-military sign at a Dyker Heights church.

The vandalism was discovered outside the St. Bernadette’s Church at 8201 13th Ave. about 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

It was not immediately clear what bias-related statements were spray-painted on the sign.

THE BRONX

*** Police were investigating the fatal shooting of an unidentified man whose charred remains were found yesterday on a Longwood street, authorities said.

The body of the man, described as black and between 30 and 40 years old, was discovered face down with gunshot wounds to the head and torso.

The discovery was made at about 1 a.m. at East 156th Street and Truxton Street, an industrial area.

*** A subway motorman found a body beneath his train at a Longwood station early yesterday, cops said.

The motorman was at the controls of a southbound No. 6 train as it was heading into the Whitlock Avenue elevated station about 3:30 a.m. when the emergency brakes tripped.

The motorman climbed down to the railbed and found the body of a 66-year-old man beneath the fourth car.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

STATEN ISLAND

*** A man was subjected to anti-Semitic slurs by a motorist who tossed a bottle at him in Todt Hill, police said yesterday.

The 57-year-old man was at the Staten Island Expressway near the Bradley Avenue exit on Sunday when a driver hurled the water bottle at him.

It was unclear if the bottle hit the victim.

The driver then screamed anti-Semitic insults and fled, cops said.

*** Two parents were arrested yesterday for scalding their 18-month-old boy with hot water in a West Brighton home, authorities said yesterday.

Hugo Lopez, 26, and Navija Martinez, 21, told authorities Lopez had been bathing baby Lester Martinez in a sink in the mother’s residence when the tot grabbed a spray nozzle and burned himself.

But under further questioning, the suspects admitted that Lopez was bathing the baby when the phone rang and, when he went to answer it, the tot somehow burned himself.

Authorities said the baby’s injuries were consistent with being immersed in hot water.

Lester was listed in critical but stable condition at Staten Island University North Hospital.

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