Staten Island

Cops are hunting the predator pictured right who is wanted for an attempted sexual assault on a woman in her West Brighton home.

The suspect accosted the woman at 5 a.m. Tuesday as she was taking out the garbage, sources said.

He forced her back into the home, pushed her to the ground and punched her in the face, police said.

The thug fled after the woman managed to fight him off and squirt Mace in his face.

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Police nabbed a prolific house burglar who swiped more than $50,000 in cash and jewelry over two months around New Dorp, authorities said yesterday.

Peter Maletta, 44, allegedly looted nine homes between Dec. 3 and Tuesday, when he was arrested on charges of burglary and grand larceny, according to a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

Maletta was busted after he was caught on surveillance video using credit cards he had stolen during the burglaries, sources said.

Manhattan

A hit-and-run driver killed a woman near the Port Authority Bus Terminal last night, police said.

The unidentified victim, in her 50s, was struck at 40th Street and Ninth Avenue shortly after 10 p.m.

A thief attacked a woman and swiped her cellphone in the Midtown shelter where they live, police sources said yesterday.

Debra Dixon, 40, took a case containing $10 and a cellphone the 62-year- old victim had left in a bathroom in the shelter on East 45th Street near Second Avenue at 9 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.

Minutes later, the woman saw Dixon with her property and confronted her, police said.

Dixon allegedly tossed a plastic bottle into the face of the victim, who suffered a laceration, the sources said.

Police arrested Dixon on charges of assault and possession of stolen property.

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A burglar snatched a cellphone, $800 in cash and car keys from a locker in The Ritz-Carlton hotel on Central Park South, police sources said yesterday.

The thief broke into the locker at 3 p.m. last Thursday and removed the property, cops said.

The theft victim, a hotel employee from The Bronx, reported the break-in two days later.

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A Queens man was arrested for a series of gunpoint robberies in Manhattan that netted him $4,800, authorities said yesterday.

Between Feb. 27 and March 22, Desame Anthony, 27, and an accomplice allegedly brandished firearms to rob a Starbucks and two Jamba Juice outlets in Murray Hill, Chelsea and the Flatiron District, cops said.

Anthony was arrested in an unrelated Queens case involving imitation pistols, and after evidence made him a suspect in the Manhattan holdups, he was identified in lineups by employees of the two beverage chains, sources said.

He was arrested last Friday and charged with multiple counts of robbery, said a DA spokeswoman. His cohort is at large.

Brooklyn

A thug shot a man dead and wounded another yesterday in a Borough Park apartment, police said.

For unknown reasons, the thug shot both victims in the head in the home on 42nd Street near Fort Hamilton Parkway at 2:30 p.m.

The survivor was in serious condition at Lutheran Hospital.

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A Prospect Heights landlord was arrested for swinging an ax at a tenant during an argument over loud music, authorities said yesterday.

Leopold Leslie, 59, argued with the 31-year-old victim over Leslie allegedly playing his tunes at night while the victim’s son was sleeping, sources said.

Leslie allegedly cursed at the tenant in the apartment building on Vanderbilt Avenue near St. Marks Avenue at 9:40 a.m. Tuesday.

The victim then tossed a sandwich at Leslie, who grabbed a small ax and swung it at the victim but whiffed, cops said.

Leslie was busted on charges of menacing, harassment and weapon possession.

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A motorist attacked another driver and threatened him with a boxcutter over a parking spot at Kings County Hospital, authorities said yesterday.

Omar Greene, 27, attacked the 32-year-old man at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday even after the victim finally yielded the spot at the hospital on Clarkson Avenue and East 39th Street in East Flatbush, cops said.

Greene slapped the man, then repeatedly punched him in the face and threatened to cut him, police said.

Greene was arrested on charges of assault, menacing and weapon possession, cops said. The victim was not seriously hurt.

Queens

Cops were hunting for a hit-and-run driver who struck and killed a woman in Forest Hills last night. The driver plowed into the unidentified woman, in her 20s, at 9:13 p.m. on Queens Boulevard at 71st Street.