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Two burglars swiped $9,000 from a hotel-room safe after kicking in the door at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, authorities said yesterday.

Leonard Salter, 32, a street vendor of CDs, and an accomplice argued with the victim over the sale of a CD near the hotel at Broadway and West 45th Street at 12:10 p.m. last Wednesday, sources said.

The pair then allegedly followed him up to his room, waited until he left, forced their way inside and snatched from the safe a satchel containing US and Australian currency.

Three days later, cops tracked down Salter, who was charged with robbery, burglary and grand larceny, a DA’s spokeswoman said. His cohort was still at large.

A man slashed a security guard who had refused to let him use the restroom at a Midtown building, authorities said yesterday.

Hector Orlando, 36, approached the guard outside a West 43rd Street building and asked to use the facilities at 4:45 p.m. last Thursday, sources said.

When the guard refused, Orlando allegedly pulled a knife and slashed him on the right shin.

Police arrested Orlando, who was charged with assault.

A man threw garbage at a parked vehicle, then assaulted the man who had been seated in the car, police sources said yesterday.

The incident occurred at 7:30 p.m. last Thursday when Eric Moses, 48, for unknown reasons became involved in a shouting match at 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue, sources said.

At one point Moses tossed garbage toward the parked car, cops said.

The man in the car got out and confronted Moses, who allegedly shoved him to the ground and started kicking him.

Cops nabbed Moses on assault charges.

Two thieves were apprehended by a security guard after they allegedly stole 25 pairs of jeans in a Bloomingdale’s store downtown, police sources said yesterday.

David Barnett, 19, and Leonard Reddick, 20, were caught swiping the merchandise in the store on Broadway near Broome Street at 4:15 p.m. last Thursday, sources said. The two men were charged with grand larceny.

Police arrested a man who had assaulted his estranged gay lover in TriBeCa after the victim refused to give him money, authorities said yesterday.

Wayne Jones, 23, allegedly clashed with the victim near the subway station at West Broadway and Chambers Street at 4 p.m. Sunday, sources said.

Jones repeatedly punched the victim in the face, causing eye and lip injuries.

The victim, who has two orders of protection against Jones, called 911.

A DA’s spokeswoman said Jones was charged with assault and aggravated criminal contempt.

BROOKLYN

A teenage girl smashed a man in the head with a beverage bottle after the victim had allegedly stared at her and her boyfriend on a subway train in Boerum Hill, authorities said yesterday.

Anna Redko, 18, and her boyfriend were sitting across from the 47-year-old victim on a southbound Q train heading toward the Pacific Street station at 1:15 a.m. Monday, sources said.

Suddenly the boyfriend angrily asked, “What are you looking at?”

The victim speaks only Russian, but the two men began shouting at each other, cops said.

Then Redko allegedly struck the victim, causing a head laceration.

When the train arrived at the station, police arrested Redko and later found marijuana stashed in an undergarment, sources said.

She was charged with assault, menacing and marijuana possession. It was not clear if the boyfriend had been charged.

Two men who clashed with police were arrested after a pit bull bit one of the cops in East Flatbush, authorities said yesterday.

Police responded to a fight involving Emanuel Rivers, 19, and Kenneth Mitchell, 42, in a bodega at Utica Avenue and Linden Boulevard at 1:45 a.m. Monday, sources said.

As cops tried to separate them, Rivers charged at one officer, then tried to release a pit bull tied to a pole outside.

As two officers arrested Rivers, the angry pooch bit one cop bit several times on the leg, sources said.

Rivers was charged with assault and resisting arrest. Mitchell was charged with disorderly conduct. The injured cop received a tetanus shot.

STATEN ISLAND

An allegedly abusive father was arrested after he violated an order of protection and assaulted his 6-year-old son with a belt, authorities said yesterday.

Calvin Sanders, 40, was staying with his wife and seven children in her Henderson Avenue apartment near Broadway in Livingston at 7 a.m. Monday when Sanders struck the boy on the leg, sources said.

After the boy went to school, a teacher noticed he was limping. The boy told her his father had assaulted him and the teacher notified authorities.

A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Sanders was charged with assault, aggravated criminal contempt, weapon possession and child endangerment.

-A second suspect was arrested in the shotgun shooting of a man in New Brighton, authorities said yesterday.

Suspected triggerman Leo Felder, 28, was busted Monday and charged with attempted murder in the Jan. 1 attack on the 28-year-old man whom he knows from the neighborhood, sources said.

The two had gotten into an argument at a New Year’s house party, spurring Felder to leave, sources said.

A third suspect drove Felder and Dashawn Mitchell, 22, to La Casa Del Tequila at Brook and Jersey streets, where Felder allegedly shot the man in the back outside the bar.

The victim was released after treatment at Richmond University Hospital.

Police are searching for the third man.

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