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Two women were grabbed off the streets of Brooklyn in unrelated sexual attacks, including a rape, police said.

A 19-year-old was waiting for a cab on Bergen Street near Albany Avenue in Crown Heights at 2 a.m. yesterday when a fiend forced her up to a rooftop and raped her, all the while threatening her with a boxcutter — and then fled in a cab.

The woman was treated at Kings County Hospital, cops said.

Three hours earlier, in Coney Island, a 21-year-old woman told cops that she’d just been sexually assaulted on Oceanview Avenue — and when officers tried to stop a man who fit the suspect’s description, he allegedly pulled a gun and shot at them.

The single bullet missed the cops on Brighton 10th Street near Neptune Avenue, but it gave the alleged shooter, Norman Vanigas (pictured), 23, ample time to escape.

A $12,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his capture.

Manhattan

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A man violated his ex-wife’s restraining order by creepily staring at her from outside the South Street Seaport Italian restaurant that he opened years ago and that she now runs, authorities said yesterday.

Venanzio Pasubio, 37, glared at the 44-year-old victim on June 9 through Il Brigante’s window on Front Street, cops said.

The woman had obtained the protective order in May after he was arrested and charged with harassing her, the cops added.

Pasubio was rearrested Wednesday and charged with criminal contempt.

The Bronx

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A chain snatcher was busted shortly after yanking a gold necklace off a woman in Westchester Village in broad daylight, cops said.

Paul Setala, 36, went on the attack near Benson Street and Westchester Avenue at about 1 p.m. June 15, only to be collared 15 minutes later and charged with grand and petit larceny, court records show.

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A terrified but quick-thinking 12-year-old boy climbed out a bedroom window and down the fire escape after a stranger jimmied open the front door of his family’s University Heights apartment with a gravity knife, authorities said.

The boy was home alone at 7:13 p.m. on June 14 when Johnny Ramirez-Santiago, 44, allegedly tried to burgle the place.

Neighbors could hear the fleeing boy screaming, “Help me! Help me! Someone’s in the house,” according to court papers.

The arresting officers found the blade in Ramirez-Santiago’s pants pocket, cops said.

He was charged with burglary, weapon possession — and endangering the welfare of a child.

The boy was not physically harmed.

Staten Island

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A raid by narcotics detectives uncovered 30 marijuana plants in a Great Kills home, authorities said.

There were nine plants in the basement of Michael Cappucci’s Cornish Street house, another 20 in the living room and kitchen, and a single one by the vestibule when the cops, search warrant in hand, came a-knocking Friday, according to court papers.

Also confiscated were five bags of weed, including one stuffed in a freezer, the cops said.

Cappucci, 46, was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana.

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Cops found a cache of illegal drugs in the West Brighton home of a man who earlier this year stabbed a mattress during a psychotic rampage, authorities said.

A June 15 raid on Patrick Kelly’s Bement Avenue pad netted marijuana, painkillers, testosterone cream, hundreds of empty plastic bags, a scale, two metal strainers covered in cocaine residue, and other drug-packaging paraphernalia, according to court papers.

Kelly, 35, was arrested on a slew of drug-related charges and ordered held in lieu of $65,000 bail, said a spokesman for District Attorney Dan Donovan.

The court records also indicate that Kelly went berserk back in February and repeatedly plunged a hunting knife into a bed at the same address.

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Cops discovered a loaded .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and a large bag of cocaine in a Castleton Corners home, authorities said.

The firearm was on a bedroom nightstand and the drugs were stashed in a dresser drawer when Michael Shaleesh’s Winthrop Place residence was raided on June 15, court papers claim.

Shaleesh, 31, was not home at the time but was arrested the next day on drug- and weapon-possession charges.

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