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A restaurant deliveryman was arrested for fondling a Bedford-Stuyvesant woman, authorities said yesterday.

Jorge Correa, 62, who worked for Mary’s restaurant, allegedly made a delivery to the 35-year-old woman at her Quincy Street apartment near Gates Avenue at 7:20 a.m. Tuesday.

Correa allegedly tried to hug the woman, then grabbed her breasts and ran off.

The victim reported the incident and Correa was busted that day on charges of forcible touching and sexual abuse.

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A young woman smashed a bottle on a neighbor’s head and pummeled her in Cypress Hills, authorities said yesterday.

Suspect Tafarah Chavis, 19, confronted the 27-year-old woman on Autumn Avenue near Weldon Street at 10:50 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

Chavis allegedly asked the victim why she no longer spent time with her.

The woman said she didn’t want to be involved with Chavis’ activities.

Chavis became enraged, smashed her in the head with a beer bottle and repeatedly punched her, cops said.

The victim’s wounds required four stitches, sources said.

The victim fled and alerted police. Chavis was tracked down Tuesday and charged with assault, menacing and harassment.

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Police arrested a suspect who assaulted a man with a bottle in Park Slope, authorities said yesterday.

The incident occurred at 7 p.m. on March 12, when the victim, 44, allegedly stepped out of a store on East Eighth Street near Seventh Avenue and was confronted by his neighbor, Thomas Rohan, 39.

Rohan allegedly angrily asked, “Who are you looking at,” but the victim ignored him and started walking away.

The assailant followed and tossed a beer bottle at him, hitting him in the foot, police said.

Rohan fled and the victim alerted police.

Rohan was busted Tuesday and charged with assault, menacing and weapon possession.

The victim suffered an abrasion but declined medical attention.

Staten Island

An ex-con was collared for drug possession after cops caught him having sex with a woman in a car in Bloomfield in broad daylight, authorities sad yesterday.

Andre Jackson, 42, was caught in the act at Chelsea and River roads at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said.

Police were issuing summonses to the lustful pair when a routine check alerted cops that Jackson had an outstanding pot-possession warrant, the sources said.

As they busted him, they found three bags of methamphetamine in the pockets of his pants – which he claimed belonged to his nephew, authorities said.

Jackson served four years for attempted robbery in the 1990s, state correction records indicate.

He was charged with drug possession, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

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A West Brighton teen was busted for beating up another youth in a botched robbery, authorities said yesterday.

Thomas Doyle, 18, and two cohorts allegedly pulled a knife on a 17-year-old boy and demanded his iPod at the Huguenot station of the Staten Island Railway at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday.

When the victim resisted, Doyle and his accomplices attacked the teen. A train conductor radioed police, who soon captured Doyle.

He was charged with attempted robbery, assault and menacing, a Donovan spokesman said. The accomplices were at large.

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A driver was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase through Livingston, authorities said yesterday.

Sherone Bochbot, 21, was driving near Castleton Avenue and Alaska Street at about 1 a.m. Tuesday when cops pulled him over for driving with illegally dark window tinting on his Hyundai, sources said.

A cop approached and asked Bochbot to turn off the ignition and hand over his license and registration.

But Bochbot allegedly sped off, driving 50 to 60 mph through back streets and blowing several red lights.

Cops in the patrol car soon chased him down.

Bochbot was charged with reckless driving and endangerment.

Manhattan

An Upper West Side man was arrested for trying to solicit sex via the Internet from an undercover cop posing as an underage girl, authorities said yesterday.

From Feb. 12 to this past Monday, Peter Mastrogiovanni, 22, allegedly sent a series of sexually charged messages and e-mails to the officer posing as a 14-year-old girl whom Peter met online.

Mastrogiovanni also allegedly sent a sexually explicit picture of himself and arranged a meeting with his correspondent, at 73rd Street and Columbus Avenue on Monday.

Detectives swooped down on Mastrogiovanni as he arrived, with condoms in his possession, for his “date.” sources said.

He was charged with attempted rape, attempted dissemination of indecent material to a minor and child endangerment, a DA’s spokeswoman said.

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One of a band of thieves was captured for beating a man during a Harlem robbery, authorities said yesterday.

James Boone, 19, and two accomplices allegedly accosted the victim at West 130th Street near St. Nicholas Terrace at about 8 p.m. on March 15.

They punched the man in the face and kicked him in the stomach as they took his money and cellphone, according to a court complaint.

The trio fled, but Boone was arrested Tuesday and charged with robbery. His accomplices were at large.

The victim suffered minor swelling and bruising.

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