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Brooklyn

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A thief got more than he bargained for after shoplifting at a 99-cent store.

The Bushwick store worker who allegedly caught William Sykes, 40, with 13 bottles of body wash and lotion in his jacket made the perp pose for a picture to put on the shop’s wall as a known shoplifter before cops came, law-enforcement sources said.

Furious, the alleged crook wound up snarling to the worker that he had a knife and was going to cut him, then fled the store on Broadway near Ellery Street, the sources said.

The worker flagged down a cop, who pursued Sykes and took him into custody after the 6:20 p.m. Thursday incident.

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A woman was beaten and robbed by a thug inside the elevator of a swanky Williamsburg building, police said.

The thief bashed the victim in the head with a blunt object and threatened to shoot her in the modern building on South Fourth Street near Berry Street at 3:22 a.m. yesterday, cops said.

The perp swiped the woman’s purse, which contained an iPhone and $200, and fled down the stairs, cops said.

The woman suffered a head wound and was treated at Woodhull Medical Center, police said. The suspect is believed to be in his 30s, 6-foot and heavyset.

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A pack of seven punks hit a 16-year-old with a baseball bat and then stabbed him with a kitchen knife in Williamsburg, cops said.

The thugs jumped the teen near South Fifth and Havemeyer streets March 7 at about 3:30 p.m. with one slugging the victim in the right arm with the bat.

The gang then chased the teen nine blocks to Metropolitan Avenue and Rodney Street and stabbed him in the back.

The victim managed to escape onto a nearby subway and later walked into Wyckoff Hospital.

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A Nintendo- and cognac-loving thief with good timing cleaned out a Bushwick apartment, cops said.

A 37-year-old mother and her daughter went out to visit their doctor at 9:45 a.m. March 6 and left their apartment unlocked, sources said.

When they got home at 10:40 a.m., they discovered a thief had snuck in to steal a Wii console, Wii nunchuk, iPod and a bottle of Hennessy, cops said.

Manhattan

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A thug stabbed a man in the eye with a fork at a Chelsea diner yesterday, authorities said.

Police said the 25-year-old victim was stabbed in the left eyelid and through the eyeball during a dispute shortly before 5 a.m. at the Good Stuff Diner on West 14th Street.

The suspect, Maurin Patterson, 29, was arrested at the scene and the victim was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was treated for a puncture wound and was in stable condition.

The Bronx

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A mugger snatched a chain off a 13-year-old girl’s neck inside her University Heights building, cops said.

The suspect (pictured) pounced on the girl on the second floor of the East 179th Street building at 2:40 a.m. Feb. 10 police said.

The girl was not injured.

Queens

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A career criminal responsible for six robberies — and a total haul worth around $8,000 — at JFK Airport was busted, Port Authority sources said.

Frederick McDonald, 46, snatched a man’s cart as the victim paused to snap photos outside a terminal Sept. 22, 2011, authorities said. He made off with $4,000 and the victim’s laptop, court papers show.

McDonald allegedly struck five other times, targeting distracted airport visitors, before he was finally busted.

During his last known robbery, Feb. 27, he grabbed a traveler’s backpack containing a $2,500 laptop, records show.

The suspect was about to board a bus in Jamaica on March 2 when Port Authority cops recognized him from surveillance video and arrested him, authorities said.

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