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* Police say this man (pictured) held up six lower Manhattan cabbies at gunpoint in past nine days.

The first robbery occurred on West 13th Street near Fifth Avenue at 12:19 a.m. on May 17, cops said.

He struck twice on the Lower East Side and three times in Union Square, police said.

In each incident, the suspect whipped out a gun and demanded money from the victims.

The last two heists came Tuesday, when the thug mugged two cabbies 30 minutes apart on West 16th Street near

Fifth Avenue, cops said.

The thief is a black man between 30 and 40 years old, 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-3, and weighs 220 to 250 pounds.

* A city cop was nabbed for assault while offduty, police said yesterday.

Edwin Moncado, 38, was arrested in Manhattan Thursday, authorities said.

Moncado, a 16-year veteran, assigned to the 23rd Precinct in East Harlem.

The NYPD refused to release any information on the circumstances surrounding the bust.

Brooklyn

* A Fort Greene man was found shot to death inside his home, police said yesterday.

Floyd Daniels, 40, was discovered lying on the living-room floor of his third-floor Fulton Street apartment with a gunshot wound above his eye at around 7:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.

Police sources said the apartment door was ajar and there were no signs of forced entry.

* Police yesterday identified three people arrested in a Bedford-Stuyvesant melee, where seven people were injured in a barrage of 20 bullets.

The fight between a group of young women that sparked the gunfire had been simmering throughout the day

Thursday and escalated into violence on Chauncey Street near Malcolm X Boulevard at around 10 p.m. that night, cops said.

Four people were shot and three were stabbed during the brawl. They were all taken to Kings County Hospital, cops

said. The three people arrested, Lison Starkey, 28, Tawnna Jackson, 39, and Preston Sanders, 29, were not involved in the bloody fracas, and were collared for obstructing government administration and resisting arrest

because they tried to cross a police line.

Queens

* An off-duty correction officer was busted for roughing up his gal pal in front of their infant daughter in their Flushing home, authorities said yesterday.

Godwin Achodo, 36, allegedly punched the victim in the face and pulled her hair during a fight inside their house

at around 10:15 a.m. Thursday.

He is charged with assault, endangering the welfare of a child and harassment, according to a spokeswoman for DA

Richard Brown.

Staten Island

* A South Beach mother was arrested after her toddler daughter slipped out of their home unnoticed, only to be found by strangers two hours later, authorities said yesterday.

Teary-eyed 2 1/2-year-old Jaenn Cahjen was discovered walking along Vulcan Street at 7:15 a.m. Thursday,

law-enforcement sources said.

The good Samaritans who found the tot called police, who immediately began trying to identifythe girl, cops said.

About two hours later, the child’s mother, Inna Kim, 22, called 911 to report the girl missing and authorities soon learned that Kim awoke at 8 a.m. but waited 90 minutes to check on Jaenn, who she assumed was still in bed

with her grandmother.

Kim is charged with endangering the welfare of a child, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

* A man was nabbed trying to steal barbecue supplies from a Sandy Ground supermarket early yesterday, authorities said.

Ralph Casale, 37, was allegedly caught trying to walk out of a Pathmark on Arthur Kill Road with beer, plastic

cups, a portable DVD player, laundry detergent, a rose bush and some plant food at 2:40 a.m., law-enforcement

sources said.

* Detectives seized a handgun and marijuana when they raided a Port Richmond home, authorities said yesterday.

Nathaniel Handy, 16, was arrested at 2 p.m. Thursday when cops executed a search warrant at his Nicholas Avenue home, law-enforcement sources said.

Cops found pot and a loaded, defaced, .25-caliber Raven handgun in a wardrobe in Handy’s bedroom, authorities

said.

Handy is charged with weapons possession and marijuana possession, a Donovan spokesman said.

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