Bronx

This suspected scam artist (above) swiped more than $3,000 by opening a bogus account at a Fordham bank.

Edgar Veloz, 29, who is 5-foot-10 and 230 pounds, used someone else’s personal identification to open a checking account at the Banco Popular branch on East Fordham Road near East Kingsbridge Road on June 23, cops said.

Veloz, who is still being sought, was then permitted to make withdrawals against bogus deposits he had made to the account before all the funds had cleared, sources said.

It was unclear how Veloz obtained the victim’s ID.

Brooklyn

A middle-aged man attacked his nephew with a snow shovel in the Flatbush building where the victim lives, authorities said yesterday.

Clive Fraser, 54, got into an argument with his 32-year-old nephew in the first-floor hallway of the building on Linden Boulevard at Rogers Avenue at around 5:30 p.m. last Tuesday, cops said.

During the dispute, Fraser allegedly grabbed the shovel, struck the other man in the hand and ran off. The nephew’s thumb was dislocated.

Two days later, Fraser surrendered at the 67th Precinct station house and was charged with assault.

Police are investigating the mysterious shooting death of a man in East New York.

Cops received a 911 call at about 3 a.m. yesterday and responded to Montauk Avenue near Pitkin Avenue, where they discovered the unidentified man shot once in the torso.

The victim later died at Kings County Hospital.

Manhattan

Two men were arrested for engaging in separate lewd acts near the Central Park Boathouse.

The incidents occurred one day apart, on Jan. 26 and 27, at around the same time, 7 p.m., behind the Boathouse restaurant’s parking lot at 74th Street and East Drive, police sources said.

In the first incident, police caught Alejandro Sanchez, 28, masturbating and issued him a desk-appearance ticket for public lewdness, cops said.

The next day, officers spotted Timothy Praylow, 47, having sex with an unidentified man and gave Praylow a desk appearance ticket for the same crime, sources said.

The man accompanying Praylow was not charged.

An ex-con has been arrested for sexually attacking a woman during a botched robbery in Hell’s Kitchen, police sources said yesterday.

Isaac Middleton, 40, accosted the 29-year-old woman at 10th Avenue and West 40th Street after she had left a bar at 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 8, sources said.

Middleton allegedly punched the woman in the face and knocked her to the ground.

Then he allegedly dragged her to a desolate area, sexually assaulted her and tried to swipe her two credit cards and cellphone.

Middleton ran off, but was arrested Jan. 28 and charged with attempted robbery and sexual abuse, police said.

A would-be thief was caught trying to burglarize two Midtown apartments, polices sources said yesterday.

Angel Torres, 35, attempted to climb through a back window to enter a third-floor apartment on East 45th Street near Lexington Avenue at about 10:50 p.m. last Thursday, police sources said.

But a woman who lived in the apartment scared off Torres, who then tried to break into another apartment in the same building, the sources said.

The woman quickly called police and Torres was arrested on charges of attempted burglary.

Police have tracked down a burglar who allegedly swiped keys from the superintendent’s office in a Greenwich Village apartment building.

On the morning of Jan. 14, Juan Gonzalez, 39, allegedly sneaked into the office on West 10th Street near Washington Street, took several keys to apartments inside the building and fled.

It was unclear how cops linked Gonzalez to the crime, but he was arrested last Thursday on burglary charges.

A firebug was arrested after he twice tried to torch his Morningside Heights apartment building, authorities said yesterday.

Reginald Lide, 44, first struck at about 9:30 a.m. last Aug. 5, when he allegedly set a blaze in his own apartment on West 113th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard.

Firefighters evacuated the building and quickly extinguished the flames. No one was injured.

Lide fled, but returned to the building at 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24 and set the lobby on fire, sources said.

Firefighters again responded and snuffed out the blaze before anyone was injured.

Lide slipped away, but was busted the next day and charged with attempted arson.