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Cops raided an illegal poker game being run out of a Murray Hill high rise, authorities said.

Detectives with Vice Enforcement swooped in on an apartment at 245 E. 40th St. near Second Avenue at 12:15 a.m. Thursday and discovered at least 10 people playing cards at two tables set up for gambling, sources said.

The cops seized $8,850 in cash and arrested four men who admitted to running the operation, police said.

Andrew Chaconas, 27, and his brother Shawn, 35, as well as partners Edward Wajnryb, 45, and Daniel Wilson, 30, were busted.

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A shoplifter was snagged swiping food and cigarettes from two Upper East Side pharmacies, cops said.

James Deese, 49, allegedly shoved three food items into a brown bag in the Walgreens on Third Avenue near 68th Street at 1:40 p.m. Saturday.

About five minutes later, Deese lifted two packs of Newports from a Rite-Aid on Second Avenue, cops said.

Deese was charged with criminal possession of stolen property, petit larceny and burglary.

Bronx

A razor-wielding father slashed his 2-year-old son and assaulted the child’s mother in Belmont, authorities said.

Oscar Luna, 20, allegedly cut his toddler in the torso with a boxcutter in an apartment on Lorillard Place near Third Avenue at 6 p.m. on March 4.

He later fought with the toddler’s mom, kicking her onto the child’s bed before climbing atop her and pressing his elbow into her chest, cops said.

“You’re not going to treat me as a dumb person. I’m going to know everything,” he barked, according to court papers.

He was arrested Saturday and charged with criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and attempted assault.

Cops are hunting an armed thug who held up a T-Mobile store in Soundview.

The suspect barged into the cellular outlet at White Plains Road and Story Avenue at 8 p.m. Saturday, pulled a ski mask over his face, pulled a silver handgun and announced a robbery, police said.

The gunman forced several employees and a customer into the rear of the store, where he demanded that a store associate open the safe, police added. The robber fled with $450.

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An unhinged man brutally attacked his father-in-law in Parkchester, authorities said.

Jonathan Anglada, 21, allegedly darted through traffic at East Tremont and Westchester avenues clutching the father-in-law’s 18-month- old granddaughter at 8:20 p.m. Thursday.

When the victim pleaded with his son-in-law to get out of harm’s way, Anglada replied, “I don’t give a s— what you have to say to me,” according to court papers.

A raging Anglada then knocked his father-in-law to the ground with several blows to the face, cops said.

The victim suffered head wounds and received five stitches to the scalp.

Police arrested Anglada on charges of assault, endangering the welfare of a child and menacing.

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A prowler was busted breaking into a Concourse apartment through a window, authorities said.

William Foskey, 49, allegedly kicked in a window air conditioner of the apartment on Carroll Place near East 166th Street at 12:20 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

A witness spotted Foskey allegedly in mid-crime, and responding cops nabbed him after a brief struggle, police said.

Foskey was charged with burglary, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

Staten Island

The owner of a Todt Hill-based construction company was arrested for swindling more than $200,000 from his business and evading taxes, authorities said.

Between January 2005 and April 2007, Joseph Panico, 62, misappropriated money from Erin Construction Corp. at Flagg Place near Richmond Road, according to court papers.

He used the money, withdrawn from the company’s account at Victory State Bank, for personal use but never reported the income for 2005 and 2006, prosecutors charge.

Panico owes the state $10,775, documents show.

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