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MANHATTAN

* Cops are searching for Derrick McCullough (above) in relation to the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old rape suspect outside a party at a Police Athletic League building.

The victim, Tyrell Carter of West 116th Street, was gunned down just before 10 p.m. on Jan. 21 as he made his way into the party at 364 W. 119th Street in Harlem.

Carter had been charged with rape a week prior to the shooting, but police could not say whether the murder was retribution for the sex crime.

McCullough, 23, has an arrest record that includes drug possession and sale and is known to use the nickname “Fatz” and the alias Derrick Blake. (lcf)

* A shooting victim showed up at Harlem Hospital after being attacked in The Bronx, police sources said yesterday.

The man said he was shot in the leg at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the vicinity of Teller Avenue and East 170th Street in Claremont for unknown reasons.

Officers from the 32nd Precinct interviewed the victim when turned up later at Harlem Hospital. The investigation is ongoing.

BROOKLYN

* A teenager struck a Cypress Hills store clerk with a bottle and smashed a glass door in a dispute over a cigar, authorities said yesterday.

Eric Zaman, 17, attempted to purchase a cigar at a grocery store at Jamaica and Grant avenues at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday. But the 33-year-old clerk said Zaman appeared to be underage and refused to sell him the item, sources said.

Zaman walked out, allegedly grabbed several bottles from the trash and tossed one at the worker, hitting him in the head. He pitched another bottle at the glass door and shattered it.

Cops located Zaman in the neighborhood soon after. He was charged with assault, menacing, criminal mischief and weapons possession.

* Cops were investigating the mysterious death of a man whose body was found yesterday on an East New York street. Quincy Bourne, 20, was discovered shot in the head at 4:50 a.m. on Sheffield Avenue near Stanley Avenue.

* An angry worker beat his supervisor with a metal pipe at a Sunset Park warehouse, authorities said yesterday.

William Sanchez, 26, was incensed when he was ordered by his 50-year-old supervisor to wash out buckets at the warehouse on First Avenue and 56th Street at 4 a.m. Wednesday, sources said. He allegedly grabbed a pipe and bashed his supervisor in the head.

Sanchez fled, but was arrested nearby by police after the victim identified him. He was charged with assault, menacing, harassment and weapons possession.

The victim was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where he received 10 stitches on his forehead.

* A veteran Brooklyn housing cop was busted for buying what he believed were stolen goods from an undercover detective during an Internal Affairs sting, police said yesterday.

Jai Aiken, 39, was released without bail Wednesday following his arraignment on charges of attempted criminal possession of stolen property and attempted grand larceny.

The undercover cop allegedly offered to sell Aiken a stolen iPod for $150, well below the retail price.

Aiken allegedly bought the “stolen” gadget.

Then, on another day, the same plainclothes officer sold Aiken a $3,000 flat-screen TV for $1,100, sources said.

Cops arrested Aiken on Wednesday and recovered the iPod and TV.

QUEENS

* A drunken cop was arrested after police caught him passed out behind the wheel of his double-parked Jeep in Forest Hills, authorities said yesterday.

Justin Blot, 26, assigned to the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, was sleeping in the driver’s seat with his keys in the ignition and the engine running at 68th Avenue at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday, the sources said.

Blot allegedly refused to take an Intoxilyzer test and claimed he hadan unspecified sickness and takes sleep medication.

He was arrested and charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol, according to DA Richard Brown.

THE BRONX

* Police yesterday offered a $12,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a sexual predator who has struck four times beginning last year.

The unidentified suspect (above) is described by police as between 18 and 25 years old, 5-foot-9 to 5-foot-11 and weighing 160 to 180.

His crime wave began at 4:30 p.m. last Oct. 27, when he grabbed a 16-year-old girl as she was walking home from a subway station.

The assailant pulled a knife and forced the girl to a nearby rooftop, tied her to a dish antenna and raped and robbed her.

He struck again on Feb. 16, when he raped a 16-year-old girl atop an apartment block on Walton Avenue in Bedford Park and again the next day when he raped a 20-year-old woman at knifepoint in her Bedford Park apartment.

His latest attack occurred at 1:40 p.m. on March 8 in Bedford Park, where he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint.

STATEN ISLAND (lcf)

* Cops raided a West Brighton home and seized nearly 30 rifles and handguns, authorities said yesterday.

Michael Silverthorne, of Davis Avenue, was nabbed Wednesday night after cops, including members of the NYPD Bomb Squad, received a tip about the cache.

Silverstone “has no known affiliation and there’s no motive why he was gathering these guns,” said a law enforcement official.

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