Queens

A crafty crook disguised himself as an armed courier to snatch almost $15,000 in cash in Astoria, cops said.

The phony rent-a-cop, in his early 30s, turned up at Lorenzo’s Enterprises on 31st Street near 36th Avenue last Friday in a Garda Armored uniform, and announced he was there to make a pick-up.

An employee handed him $14,800 and the thief departed at 10:15 a.m., police said.

The genuine courier arrived a few hours later and the puzzled employee told him the pick-up had already been made.

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Cops are hunting the alleged bank bandit pictured here (top photo) who has hit three Queens branches and one in Brooklyn this month.

In each case, he passed a teller a demand note.

His spree began on July 9 in East New York, Brooklyn, at a Chase branch on Fulton Street.

He targeted two Middle Village branches on July 18, escaping with greenbacks from the Valley National branch on 80th Street but fleeing empty-handed from the Chase branch on Metropolitan Avenue.

He struck most recently last Thursday when he scored cash from the Maspeth Savings branch on Fresh Pond Road in Ridgewood.

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The man pictured here (middle photo) is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Woodhaven.

The 35-year-old victim was walking near 89th Street and Jamaica Avenue at 6 a.m. Tuesday when a creep grabbed her from behind, placed her in a chokehold and dragged her into an alley.

The thug punched the woman in the head and face and sexually attacked her.

Manhattan

A stalker waged a monthlong campaign of terror against a lower Manhattan woman, authorities said.

Between June 10 and July 13, Emanuel Popeti, 40, sent the victim bizarre e-mails and text messages stating he loved her, calling her a whore and threatening to harm himself, court papers state.

On July 10 at 2:30 a.m., he allegedly slipped into her Peck Slip apartment and told her, “You’re killing me. I need to talk to you.”

After being arrested on July 13, Popeti e-mailed the victim from his cellphone and wrote, “If you don’t call right now and have these charges dropped, I’m going to tell the judge that I was your boyfriend and that you sleep with men for money,” court documents state.

Popeti was charged with burglary, stalking and tampering with a witness.

Brooklyn

The gun-toting robbers pictured here (bottom photo) swiped cash, sneakers and hats from a Williamsburg store, police said.

The suspects struck at 3:20 p.m. on July 20 in the Sneaker Net outlet on Graham Avenue.

One perpetrator held an employee at bay while the other goon grabbed merchandise and loot.

The Bronx

The body of a 38-year-old woman was found yesterday in a Bedford Park apartment, police said.

The body was discovered at 7:22 a.m. in the fifth-floor apartment on the Grand Concourse.