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This suspected gun-toting thief (above) is wanted for twice robbing the same Midtown bank.

He allegedly struck at the Sovereign Bank on Eighth Avenue near West 52nd Street last Nov. 6 and this past May 6.

In both cases, he allegedly pulled a handgun, demanded money and fled with cash, police said.

Two teens were arrested for beating and robbing a man in Alphabet City, police said yesterday.

Joshua Igartua, 16, and a 15-year-old accosted the 23-year-old man at Avenue A and East Houston Street at 11:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said. They allegedly punched the man in the face and body, then swiped his cell phone.

Police were called and arrested the pair on robbery charges.

Two Hudson News workers were robbed of $20,000 in cash and an unknown number of MetroCards in a brazen heist near Grand Central Terminal, police sources said.

Two muggers struck Monday at 11:30 p.m. as newsstand employees pushed a cart loaded with the cash and cards across East 42nd Street. Just as the workers were about to enter an office building, the thugs attacked them and made off with the loot.

An NYPD traffic agent was injured when a driver pulled away as the agent was issuing a ticket in TriBeCa, police sources said yesterday. The agent was serving the summons to the 30-year-old motorist at Thompson and Watts streets at 7 p.m. Monday. The driver sped away, and the agent was struck by a side-view mirror.

The victim, 36, was treated for a sprained hand. The motorist is at large.

Identical twins were arrested for swiping a cellphone from a woman in the West Village, authorities said yesterday.

Jerome and Tyrone Bush, both 17, came up behind the 21-year-old victim on Christopher Street at Bedford Street at 11:56 p.m. on May 26, police said. One allegedly placed a hard object against her head and demanded property.

The brothers fled, but were busted for an unrelated theft over the weekend and slapped with various charges.

Brooklyn

A thug has been arrested for beating a woman with metal pipe in Fort Greene, authorities said yesterday.

Nathanie Young, 28, and the victim, also 28, were in a Jeep on Fleet Walk near Johnston Street at around 10:50 p.m. on May 24.

During an argument, they got out of the vehicle, and Young struck the woman in the arm with the pipe, cops said.

Young fled, but was arrested Monday and charged with assault.

The victim, who is acquainted with young, needed four stitches to close a wound.

Staten Island

An Uzi-wielding thug was arrested yesterday after an attempted carjacking in Mariners Harbor, cops said.

Kendu Geralds, 25, was in the passenger seat of a car on Arlington Place at South Avenue at around 1:50 a.m. when he pulled the machine gun and ordered the driver to get out, sources said.

But for some reason, Geralds himself got out, and scratched the vehicle as it sped away, cops said.

The driver gave police a description, and Geralds was arrested.

A spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan said Geralds was charged with attempted robbery and criminal mischief.

A New Dorp man was arrested yesterday for attacking his roommate with a butter knife during an argument over their air conditioner, authorities said.

Carlos Ordoñez, 23, clashed with his roommate in their home on Clawson Street near Jacques Avenue at 12:20 a.m., cops said.

Ordoñez allegedly “stabbed” the man in the head and chest, and bit his torso. He was arrested and charged with assault.

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