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*** Two Asian men were stabbed with a boxcutter in front of a Gramercy Park diner during a racial fracas, police sources said.

The victims were ending a night of bar-hopping with two friends when they walked into the Gramercy Diner on Third Avenue at 4:30 a.m. yesterday.

Inside, they were approached by two Hispanic men who started hurling slurs.

The two then left, and the four men sat down to eat.

When the victims left the eatery, the race-baiters, with another person in tow, approached them again.

The two groups hurled insults, and one of the instigators walked up behind the group of four, pulled a boxcutter and slashed one of the men on the face and neck, and another across the back.

The three men then fled from the scene.

The victims were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where they were treated and released.

THE BRONX

*** A couple was arrested after a robbery spree where they pretended to be cops, police sources said.

Miguel Villalba, 43, and Lisa Flores, 42, both of The Bronx, were arrested after cops in Baychester spotted them in a small white car that matched the description from a robbery pattern in the area.

When the officers approached the car, the duo blew through a stop sign and sped off, sources said.

When cops caught up to the car, it was double-parked, and Villalba quickly walked away from it.

The officers immediately noticed that Villalba matched the description of a person involved in the robberies.

Flores was still sitting in the car, where cops also found an ID holder on a chain with a PBA card from the Department of Correction, five stolen cellphones, two walkie-talkies, binoculars, several empty drug bags, and a bag of crack.

During questioning, Flores ‘fessed up to eight robberies that she said she committed with Villalba, sources said.

The two were later picked out of a line-up by several of their victims, the sources said.

The pair was charged with robbery, possession of stolen property and drug possession.

Villalba also received an additional charge for criminal impersonation of a police officer.

STATEN ISLAND

*** A Graniteville man was busted after he was caught by detectives stealing the digital information of employees from a New Jersey company and then forging driver’s licenses and other ID cards, police sources said.

John Barsoum, 21, of Kingsbridge Avenue, was arrested by detectives from the city’s Computer Crimes Squad and their counterparts at the New Jersey State Police and charged with forgery and computer intrusion.

Barsoum allegedly used his home computer to hack into the system of Interactive Network Systems, a company based in Blackwood, N.J.

Armed with a search warrant, detectives went to Barsoum’s house and looked through computer records and found he had stolen information of employees.

They also found equipment used to make identification cards.

The man then confessed to creating bogus IDs and illegally accessing the company’s system.

*** An NYPD school-safety agent and a computer technician at Curtis HS in St. George were arrested for forging a placard to park illegally, police said yesterday.

Safety agent Joy Bradford and Richard Mathies were arrested and charged after the principal at the school noticed a scanned copy of a state Department of Correction parking permit on her computer.

She mentioned the find to the assistant principal, who told her that he saw Mathies scanning an image of the placard into her computer a few days earlier.

The administrator then called local cops, who came to question the techie.

Mathies admitted to the officers that he scanned the permit but said it was for Bradford.

Officers then discovered the placard in the windshield of the agent’s car.

Bradford and Mathies were arrested at the school and brought to the 120th Precinct station house.

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