Brooklyn
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Two thugs robbed two drivers in parked cars in Bensonhurst and Borough Park, police said.
The surveillance photo above shows one of the men who approached a 65-year-old victim in a car on Bay Parkway near 77th Street at 10 p.m. on New Year’s Day, and demanded cash and credit cards, police said.
The duo punched the driver and fled, cops said.
About 15 minutes later, the pair, believed to be in their 20s, robbed a 40-year-old man parked on Avenue J near East Third Street, according to detectives.
One of the victim’s credit cards was quickly used to get cash from an ATM on Nostrand Avenue, cops said.
Queens
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A city jail guard was arrested for allegedly raping, assaulting and imprisoning one of his own family members in Ozone Park.
The woman told cops that Correction Officer James Robinson, 52, viciously attacked her Wednesday when she returned from a vacation with a man who she says is a cousin.
The guard demanded sex and assaulted and imprisoned the woman, who went to work the next day, met up with the cousin and traveled to Yonkers to report the attack, law-enforcement sources said.
She was told to return to Queens, where police took a report and arrested Robinson yesterday.
He was awaiting arraignment on charges of rape, assault and false imprisonment.
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A St. Albans resident was shot dead while working on a vehicle in his driveway yesterday, cops said.
Ceasar Asbert, 41, was shot in the chest at about 2:05 p.m. at his home on 136th Avenue and rushed to Franklin General Hospital in cardiac arrest, cops said.
He was pronounced dead on arrival.
It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked the dispute between the mechanic and the shooter.
No arrests have been made, cops said.
Manhattan
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Cops are hunting a thug who robbed an Upper East Side drugstore.
The crook walked into the Health Source pharmacy on Second Avenue near East 69th Street at about 12:05 p.m. on Dec. 12, flashed his firearm and took cash and prescription drugs, police said.
The armed thief (above) is believed to be between 30 and 35 years old, standing 5-foot-11, and is clean-shaven.
He was wearing a blue hooded jacket, dark pants and sunglasses when he committed the robbery.
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Two cat burglars were caught trying to break into a Chelsea apartment building, sources said.
An eyewitness spotted a man with a knit cap and flashlight on a fire escape looking into a window on West 22nd Street near Seventh Avenue at about 10 p.m., Thursday, cops said.
A second person spotted two men in the building’s courtyard after hearing a loud banging noise, police said.
Responding cops spotted one crook sitting on an air conditioner that had been removed from the second-floor window and the second one running up a fire escape.
Martin Gonzalez, 27, and Israel Espinal, 29, were busted for burglary, authorities said.


