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Police yesterday identified two men who they said kidnapped and robbed a City Island man.

Steve Morales, 23, and Sergio Ramirez, 22, allegedly abducted a construction-company owner in Westchester at gunpoint, drove him to his Tier Street home and forced him to open his safe at 4:50 p.m. Friday, authorities said.

After they took unspecified cash and valuables, Morales and Ramirez took off in the 42-year-old victim’s 2005 GMC Yukon, cops said.

The victim followed the pair in another vehicle while his wife called 911.

Morales and Ramirez were nabbed after they crashed the SUV on the Bronx River Parkway near the Allerton Avenue exit, authorities said.

BROOKLYN

Two cop cars crashed while pursuing the duo, injuring four officers.

Both men are charged with robbery, kidnapping, grand larceny, weapons possession, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest, police said.

Two bandits held up a Bedford-Stuyvesant bodega at gunpoint, authorities said yesterday.

The suspects walked into the Emelyn Grocery on Myrtle Avenue near Throop Avenue and demanded money from the 42-year-old woman behind the counter at 10:35 p.m. Thursday, police sources said.

The worker forked over about $150, and the thieves fled on foot toward the Tompkins Houses, the sources said.

MANHATTAN

A gang of hoodlums attacked two men in an Upper East Side deli, police sources said yesterday.

The victims, 25 and 24 years old, whose names were not released, went to the Empire Market on First Avenue near East 93rd Street to shop, the sources said.

Moments later, five men walked in. One smashed the 25-year-old in the head with a bottle and stabbed the 24-year-old in the head.

The suspect and his crew fled north on First Avenue. The victims were taken to New York Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

A homeless man and a teen accomplice were busted in Princes Bay for “car hopping” – stealing items out of unlocked parked cars, authorities said yesterday.

Dwane Armstrong, 23, and a 15-year-old were spotted checking car-door handles on Elizabeth Place near Oswald Place at 1:47 a.m. Thursday, law-enforcement sources said.

After a chase, police discovered Armstrong was carrying 15 rounds of 9 mm Luger ammunition and items stolen from at least two other vehicles on March 20 and 27, the sources said.

His teen partner in crime had in his possession three credit cards stolen from another parked car.

Armstrong is charged with three counts of grand larceny, two counts of petit larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, unauthorized use of a vehicle and possession of ammunition, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

QUEENS

A former Fort Totten janitor doing time for stealing the identities of Army reservists was collared for rape when his DNA came back as a match in a sex-assault case in Jamaica in 2000, authorities said yesterday.

Edwin Gómez, 35, allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl in his home on Nov. 7, 2000, law-enforcement sources said.

The next day, the girl reported the alleged statutory rape and went to Jamaica Hospital for an examination, the sources said.

DNA collected after the alleged sex assault matched a sample Gómez was required to submit in February 2006 after he pleaded guilty to stealing an army reservist’s identity and racking up credit-card bills, authorities said.

Gómez, serving a 1½ to 3 years in the identity-theft case, is charged with rape and endangering the welfare of a child.

He faces up to seven more years in prison if convicted, a spokeswoman for DA Richard Brown said.

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