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Brooklyn An alleged prostitute and her john were busted in Bushwick as she was performing a $10 favor in his truck, authorities said yesterday.

Police on patrol spotted Luz Kercado and Amos Blackmon in a 2007 Ford truck near Troutman Street and Bushwick Avenue at 6:05 a.m. Wednesday, sources said.

Kercado, 52, was charged with prostitution, while Blackmon, 58, was charged with patronizing a prostitute.

Three suspects were arrested for assaulting a neighbor as an argument escalated in their two-family Flatlands home, authorities said yesterday.

Strobert Rene, 39, Marie Durante, 38, and her daughter, Johane Durante, 17, for unknown reasons accosted the 41-year-old man in the basement of the house at Schenectady Avenue near Avenue N at 10 a.m. Wednesday, sources said.

Johane allegedly slashed the victim on the wrist with a kitchen knife, her mother allegedly struck the victim in the head with a lamp, and Rene allegedly hit the victim with a hammer.

The victim called police, and the three were charged with assault. The victim was taken to a hospital.

Manhattan Police were searching yesterday for the bank robber (pictured above) who hit two Upper East Side branches.

The suspect first robbed the Apple branch at First Avenue and 81st Street, where he demanded money from a teller and fled with an undisclosed sum at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday.

About 3½ hours later, he demanded and received cash at a Washington Mutual branch on York Avenue near 80th Street.

In both cases, he was wearing a powder-blue sheepskin bomber cap with earflaps, rectangular glasses, a red scarf, a green military jacket, dark pants and dark shoes.

A security guard captured a shoplifter who stole $129 worth of software from a SoHo electronics store, authorities said yesterday.

The guard spotted Scott Smith, 37, stuffing four pieces into his jacket pocket in the Apple store at Prince and Greene streets at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, sources said.

Smith was charged with burglary, petit larceny and possession of stolen property, a DA’s spokeswoman said.

A shoplifter who apparently wanted to practice good oral hygiene was busted, cops said yesterday.

Richard Trott, 50, allegedly grabbed 18 tubes of Colgate toothpaste and a box of Theraflu in a Walgreen’s at Fourth Avenue and East 13th Street at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

A store manager saw Trott shove the items beneath his coat and stopped him as he tried to leave, sources said.

Trott was charged with burglary and petit larceny.

Police nabbed an alleged subway thief who had sliced open the pockets of two sleeping men and robbed them in lower Manhattan, authorities said yesterday.

A cop on a platform in the Chambers Street station witnessed Edward Hawkins, 26, aboard an E train cutting the pants pocket of one victim and stealing his wallet at 5:20 a.m. Sunday, sources said.

Hawkins then allegedly slashed open the pocket of the second victim and stole his cellphone.

Hawkins was charged with grand larceny.

A former catering worker was arrested for swiping electronic equipment from the Javits Convention Center, authorities said yesterday.

Russell Green, 37, who formerly worked for a catering company, was dressed in a white shirt, black pants and a white apron when he made his way into the convention center on West 34th Street at 3:45 p.m. Monday, sources said.

He strolled past security and walked into a Microsoft booth, where he stole a laptop computer and a Web cam, sources said.

He then went into another booth and was caught stealing a digital camera, sources said. A spokeswoman for the DA’s Office said Green was charged with burglary.

A body found floating in the waters off the Upper East Side was identified yesterday as that of Malcolm Smith, 57, authorities said.

Smith, of East 89th Street, was found floating near East 93rd Street and the FDR Drive at about 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 8, sources said.

The Medical Examiner’s Office determined he had committed suicide. It was unclear whether he had left a note.

Staten Island Two suspects were arrested in connection with the shooting death of a man in his girlfriend’s Arlington apartment building, authorities said yesterday.

Isiah Gravely, 20, and Preston Washington, 28, went to the building on Grandview Avenue near Brabant Street at 8:42 p.m. last Sunday, sources said.

Washington phoned Christopher Rodriguez, 34, who was upstairs visiting his girlfriend, and asked him to come down and open the front door, sources said.

When Rodriguez came down, Gravely fatally shot him, said cops, who added that Rodriguez was dating Gravely’s ex-girlfriend.

Gravely was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder.

The next day, Washington was busted and charged with criminal facilitation, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

Four teenagers were arrested for raping two girls in a Fox Hills apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Patrick Gross, 16, Nicky Toe, 18, Danny Davis, 17, and Leelah Pewu, 17, were visiting the victims, 11 and 13, in the 11-year-old’s Park Hill Avenue apartment at 3 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

Gross allegedly began to force himself on the 13-year-old, whose pleas to stop were ignored.

The other suspects allegedly took turns sexually assaulting the 11-year-old, whose father walked in and called police.

The four were charged with rape and child endangerment.

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