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Brooklyn
Police are asking the public for help in finding a Brownsville woman who disappeared from her apartment last week.

Charlotte Hall, 64, described by police as mentally impaired, was last seen in her first-floor apartment on Decatur Street near Thomas S. Boyland Street at 9 a.m. on April 12.

She is 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds, has brown eyes and wears glasses.

Four people were arrested on suspicion of swiping a laptop and 89 Xanax pills from a Sheepshead Bay physical-therapy office, authorities said yesterday.

A witness told police that Corneliu Gadsden, 30, climbed through a window of Madison Physical while Angel Pagan, 18, Ryan Rosario, 17, and Gissette Castillo, 18, acted as lookouts at 12:25 a.m. Wednesday, authorities said.

Minutes later, Gadsden allegedly emerged with the stolen items and joined his accomplices near Voorhies Avenue and Shore Parkway.

The witness called police, who soon caught up with the suspects and recovered the property.

All four were all charged with burglary.

A 47-year-old man was charged with swiping a man’s wallet and roughing him up in a Bay Ridge subway station, authorities said yesterday.

The trouble started at 4:45 a.m. Wednesday at the Bay Ridge Avenue station after a 46-year-old man fell asleep on a bench and awoke to find Frederic Carter trying to wrest off his wedding band, cops said.

The victim said that Carter told him that he would find his wallet in a black bag resting beside him and that when he checked, he found that $15 was missing.

The two then began struggling, and Carter pushed the victim to the ground, sources said.

Responding cops grabbed Carter, who was charged with attempted assault and robbery.

Manhattan
Police were hunting yesterday for a man who allegedly sodomized and raped a 26-year-old woman in an East Harlem park.

The suspect accosted the woman in the park at Madison Avenue near East 135th Street at 4:50 a.m. Monday, put her in a headlock and knocked her to the ground, cops said.

He then allegedly forced her to perform oral sex, raped her and took off.

The woman was treated at North General Hospital.

A Hell’s Kitchen man tried to smother a female companion with a blanket when she tried to end their relationship, authorities said yesterday.

Sources said Venil Wattkins, 34, and the woman were hanging out in an SRO on West 43rd Street at about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday when he put the moves on her and was told that she wasn’t in the mood.

During the ensuing argument, the woman also expressed her wish to end their relationship.

That’s when Wattkins allegedly put a blanket and pillow over her face and threatened to hit her with a hammer.

Captured later that day, Wattkins was charged with assault and menacing, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan DA’s Office said.

A brick-wielding 69-year-old man attacked a woman in a Chelsea hot-dog joint because she was “running her mouth,” authorities said yesterday.

Shelmond Williams and the 56-year-old woman clashed in the Chelsea Papaya on West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue at about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, sources said.

Williams allegedly tried to smash the woman in the mouth with the brick, but she ducked, and he ended up bashing her forehead instead.

Williams was soon arrested and charged with assault and weapon possession, the DA’s spokeswoman said.

The woman suffered a contusion and laceration.

The manager of a Duane Reade in Chelsea nabbed a man who had swiped several sticks of women’s deodorant, authorities said yesterday.

The manager saw Michael Fredericks, 37, grab seven Secret deodorants in the store on West 23rd Street and Sixth Avenue at about 9:45 a.m. Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said.

As Fredericks tried to leave without paying, the manager grabbed him, the sources said.

Fredericks was charged with burglary, petit larceny and possession of stolen property.

The Bronx
A man was clinging to life after being shot several times on a Mott Haven street, police sources said yesterday.

The 31-year-old was attacked by an unknown assailant for unspecified reasons at the corner of East 151st Street and Morris Avenue at about 11 p.m. Tuesday.

The victim was listed in critical condition last night at Lincoln Hospital.

The shooter remained at large.

Staten Island
A 17-year-old girl has been arrested for attacking her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend in Great Kills last month, authorities said yesterday.

Tiffany Brennan and three accomplices jumped the 17-year-old victim on Amboy Road near Acacia Street at 12:30 p.m. on March 4.

The gang punched and kicked the girl, causing injuries to her head, back and ribs, sources said.

Brennan was tracked down Wednesday and charged with assault, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donavan.

A 22-year-old man was arrested after using an altered student MetroCard to gain access to the Staten Island Railroad in St. George, authorities said yesterday. Police caught Perporim Budzaku, 22, with the doctored card at the railroad at Richmond Terrace at about 9 a.m. Wednesday, law-enforcement sources said.

He was charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument and theft of services.

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