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A Tompkinsville teen arrested for stealing $300 in coins from a neighbor’s home later confessed to having sex with his underage girlfriend, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.

Scott Perlmutter, 18, broke into the house on Stanley Avenue near Portland Place on May 6 and swiped the money as well as diamond and gold rings, gold bracelets, a cellphone, two digital cameras and two iPods, officials said.

Police interviewed a cashier at a nearby store who told them Perlmutter had come in with a lot of change, which led them to interview his 15- year-old girlfriend.

The girlfriend ratted him out for the burglary, sources said.

When Perlmutter was taken in for questioning, police allegedly found 11 baggies of marijuana in his underwear.

He was charged with burglary, possession of stolen property, possession of marijuana, sexual misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child, said a spokesman for DA Daniel Donovan.

A drug dealer was arrested in his West New Brighton home after police discovered a large bag of crack in his apartment, authorities said yesterday.

Raoul Edwards, 29, sold an undercover officer two baggies of crack on March 4, sources said.

The officer obtained a search warrant on June 9 and searched his home on Winegar Lane near Broadway Wednesday at 6:45 p.m., officials said.

Edwards was charged with selling and possessing drugs, the DA spokesman said.

Brooklyn

A 16-year-old boy was arrested for assaulting a 17-year-old girl in Coney Island, authorities said yesterday.

Bashear Abdullah got into an argument with the victim on Neptune Avenue near West 31st Street at 8:30 a.m. on March 8, officials said.

Abdullah grabbed a recycling bag containing glass bottles, allegedly swung it and hit the girl in the face.

She was taken to Coney Island Hospital where she received eight stitches to close facial gashes. The victim’s cousin knows the attacker from the neighborhood and ID’d him for cops.

Abdullah was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault, menacing and harassment, a spokesman for DA Charles Hynes said.

Manhattan

A patient thief made off with $500 after waiting in a teller line at an Upper East Side bank, authorities said yesterday.

The robber walked into the HSBC branch on Third Avenue near East 68th Street at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, sources said.

He awaited his turn, then handed a demand note to a teller, who forked over the cash.

A man with a knowledge of cash-pickup routes was arrested for posing as an armored-car-service security guard and stealing more than $120,000 from businesses in Chinatown and Washington Heights, authorities said yesterday.

Jesus Bailey, 19, carried a gun and dressed in a Rapid Armor Corporation uniform with an unidentified accomplice and made a pickup of more than $30,000 in cash from a store on East Broadway near Forsyth Street on Aug. 31, 2007, sources said.

About 15 minutes later, a real guard from the company arrived looking for the money.

Bailey pulled the same ruse the next day, taking more than $90,000 from a travel agency on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 181st Street.

After an extensive investigation, he was arrested Saturday and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of a weapon, a DA spokeswoman said.

A visitor from upstate Auburn was assaulted by four muggers on the Upper East Side, cops said yesterday.

The victim was walking on East 87th Street near Second Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Monday when one member of the group approached and asked him for the time, sources said.

The thugs then punched the 21-year-old victim and grabbed his cellphone.

A man power-napping in Central Park was robbed of his laptop computer, camera and book, authorities said yesterday.

The victim was relaxing near the boathouse at 3 p.m. Tuesday with his belongings next to him when he shut his eyes.

He said that when he opened them a few minutes later, his possessions were gone.

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