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Staten Island

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A gun-toting thug shot two people yesterday in Arrochar, police said.

The victims, both 23, were on Father Capodanno Boulevard near Sand Lane when bullets started to fly at 3:18 a.m., cops said.

One man was shot in the right knee, while the other suffered a graze wound to the back.

Both were taken to Staten Island University Hospital and are in stable condition, police said. The assailant fled.

It’s unclear what sparked the gunfire.

Brooklyn

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Two punks who allegedly swiped cellphones from a Bushwick Radio Shack.

The duo entered the store on Broadway at Gates Avenue at 11:40 a.m. June 17 and simulated weapons as they threatened a store employee, police said.

One of the suspects forced the worker to a back room, where he snatched up the phones, cops said. The victim was uninjured, and the perps fled with the phones.

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Three teenage hoodlums were collared after they tried to rob a 13-year-old boy in Fort Greene, cops said.

The bullies surrounded the victim at DeKalb and Clermont avenues at about 8:45 a.m. June 11, according to police.

“Run your pockets,” one goon barked at the boy. But the would-be crook quickly got spooked and said, “Let’s get out of here, people are watching.”

The trio — Davon Copeland, 17, Kwane Timmers, 16, and Arkel McCarter, 16 — ran off, but responding officers nabbed them three blocks away, cops said.

All three were slapped with charges of attempted robbery raps, cops added.

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This woman really needs to chill out.

A hot-tempered employee at a frozen-yogurt shop in Fort Greene whacked a co-worker in the head with a frying pan, cops said.

Lateefah Thomas, 22, and the victim, also 22, allegedly started arguing at about 11 a.m. June 17 inside the TCBY in the Atlantic Center Mall.

Thomas clocked her colleague on the side of her noggin with the pan, cops said.

The victim was taken to Brooklyn Hospital.

Thomas was cuffed and hit with charges of assault, weapons possession (the pan), menacing and harassment, cops said.

The Bronx

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A man paroled seven months ago after nearly 15 years in prison for attempted murder stabbed his ex-love, her daughter and her niece in Laconia yesterday, police said.

Lamont Macon, 38, broke into his ex’s house on Adee Avenue at around 1:55 a.m. and knifed the 35-year-old woman, her 13-year-old daughter and her 14-year-old niece, police said. The victims were taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition.

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A con artist used a forged US Treasury check to make his Co-op City rent payment, authorities said.

Erik Moore, 47, was busted June 18 after it was discovered he allegedly forged signatures on the back of a check and turned it over April 25 to Riverbay Management, which manages the development.

He admitted he bought the $722.91 check from his nephew and used it to pay rent for the Alcott Place apartment owned by his father-in-law, according to court records.

Moore was slapped with charges of forgery, criminal possession of stolen property and criminal possession of a forged instrument.

Queens

A 28-year-old man riding recklessly on a stolen motorcycle fatally crashed in Cambria Heights yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.

The man, whose name was withheld pending family notification, was not wearing a helmet, a source said. He was speeding at the Cross Island Parkway Service Road and 115th Avenue when he wiped out, witnesses told police.

He died at Franklin General Hospital. The bike was reported stolen in Fresh Meadows, sources said.

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