Brooklyn
Two armed burglars pistol-whipped and bound a 75-year-old woman in her Gravesend apartment, sources said.
Rafael Ramirez, 38, broke into the pad on Gravesend Neck Road near East 8th Street at 10:15 p.m. on Aug. 21, according to sources.
They used a kitchen knife to pry open a safe and mak off with more than $100,000 in jewelry and cash, sources added.
Cops lifted fingerprints from the knife and got a match on Ramirez, who was arrested Thursday, sources said.
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A dispute between two rivals over Thanksgiving dinner ended with one beaten in Bushwick, sources said.
Ex-con José Santiago, 32, argued with his girlfriend’s ex-husband at a holiday get-together, according to sources.
After the victim departed, Santiago pursued him and jumped him on Jefferson Street, sources said.
The victim suffered a broken eye and nose, and was hospitalized five days.
Santiago was arrested Thursday.
Manhattan
A thief was busted for swiping 11 books from a Flatiron District bookstore, sources said.
Wesley Thornton, 29, was stuffing the reading material into a bag and trying to flee the Barnes & Noble at Fifth Avenue and 18th Street at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to sources.
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A shoplifter tried to walk off with more than $2,000 in designer duds from a trendy Murray Hill clothing store, sources said.
Tony Albert, 44, was caught allegedly swiping merchandise off display racks in the Lacoste on Park Avenue South East 29th Street at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Albert was stashing the stolen goods in a bag lined with aluminum foil, a trick to thwart sensor alarms, sources added.
Queens
These are the violent thugs wanted for robbing a storage facility in Woodhaven.
The fearsome foursome knocked a 28-year-old man down and bound his hands with tape after pushing their way into Safeguard Self-Storage at 7 p.m. on Nov. 15.
The suspects raided three storage containers.
Staten Island
Two drug dealers were caught with a stash of narcotics in Willowbrook, authorities said.
Volney Prosdocimi, 42, and Kenneth Kanowicz, 45, had five bags of crack cocaine, six bags of marijuana and a scale in Kanowicz’s car when cops pulled them over at 9:45 p.m. Thursday, according to court papers.
“The weed’s not mine. The cocaine’s all I have,” Prosdocimi allegedly told the officers.


