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Brooklyn

Police are asking for the public’s help in finding this 14-year-old girl, who disappeared from her near Sheepshead Bay home.

Manija Latifa (pictured) was last seen on East 19th Street near Avenue U at about 2 p.m. Saturday.

She is 5-foot-4 and 120 pounds, and was wearing heart-shaped earrings.

She also has piercings in her nose and lower lip.

Manhattan

A SoHo man returned home to find a prowler rummaging through his apartment, police said.

The victim entered his third-floor pad on Broadway near Spring Street at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and allegedly discovered Luis Diaz standing in his bedroom holding a bag stuffed with valuables.

The victim alerted police after the suspect fled, and heavily armed Emergency Service Unit cops and a K-9 unit responded. They found Diaz hiding on the roof of an adjoining building with an injured leg.

Diaz, whose record includes busts for drug and gun possession, was arrested for burglary.

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He was bagged at Saks.

A Saks Fifth Avenue shoplifter was busted trying to walk off with a Gucci purse, law-enforcement sources said.

Kevin Torres, 32, allegedly swiped the $4,900 handbag from a display shelf in the Midtown store at 8:07 p.m. Thursday.

A suspicious employee stopped Torres, who was arrested and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property in the third degree.

Staten Island

A brute accused of choking his ex-girlfriend has continued to call her from jail despite a court order banning him from doing so, authorities said.

Between March 26 and April 22, John Aponte, 39, left 13 messages on the victim’s phone at her home on Ebbitts Street in New Dorp while cooling his heels on Rikers Island, according to court papers.

He’s in jail on a choking charge stemming from an alleged Feb. 1 attack against the woman.

Aponte was slapped this time with criminal contempt charges, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.

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A creep was busted for raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl in Tompkinsville, authorities said.

Maynor Perez, 21, allegedly assaulted the girl between last year in his home on Rosewood Avenue near Creston Place.

The child gave birth at a local hospital in January.

Hospital officials notified police who tracked Perez down on Sunday.

Upon his arrest, Perez allegedly told police, “We had sex at my house once,” according to court papers.

He was charged with rape, sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.

Bronx

That’s no way to win back a former flame.

A thug has been arrested for zapping his ex-girlfriend with a stun gun after sneaking into her home, authorities said.

Anthony Ancrum allegedly snatched the victim’s apartment keys as she was leaving her residence on Exterior Street near West 230th Street in Marble Hill at 1 p.m. Saturday.

At 10 p.m. later that night, he allegedly used the keys to slip into her home while she was inside.

Ancrum followed her into the bathroom and snarled, “You’re not going anywhere. If I can’t have you nobody can have you,” according to court papers.

He whipped out the stun gun and shocked her before brandishing a knife and threatening to hurt her, authorities said.

Police were called and arrested Ancrum, 41, for assault and burglary.

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A knife-wielding punk attacked his mother’s boyfriend in their Bedford Park apartment, authorities said.

Trinton Hatton, 21, began fighting with the victim at 3 a.m. Saturday in the home on Grand Concourse near East 198th Street, according to court papers.

An unhinged Hatton bit the victim’s chest before hurling an iron at him, the court papers said.

He then allegedly pulled a knife and slashed the man’s right arm.

Responding police arrested Hatton for assault, menacing and criminal possession of a weapon. The victim required four stitches.

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