BROOKLYN

*** Two Manhattan men beat a livery driver and menaced him with a knife in Bedford-Stuyvesant, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The violence began at 3:30 a.m. Monday, when the driver picked up Melvin Santana, 25, and Soriano Wander, 22, in The Bronx and drove them to Bedford and Park avenues in Brooklyn.

The two got out of the cab without paying, the sources said. Santana then swung a champagne bottle at the driver, smashing him in the face and breaking his jaw, according to the sources.

Wander allegedly pulled a knife and menaced the driver.

Security guards from a nearby building came to the driver’s aid and held the suspects until police arrived.

The suspects, who live in Morningside Heights, were charged with assault, menacing and theft of services.

The victim was taken to Montefiore Hospital in The Bronx, where he underwent surgery on his jaw.

*** A Sheepshead Bay man has been arrested for beating his wife in a fight over another woman, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Robert Duenas-lay, 43, clashed with his 54-year- old wife in their Avenue W apartment near Batchelder Street at 10 p.m. Sunday after she saw him with the woman at a party earlier that day, the sources said.

Suddenly, Duenas-lay socked his wife in the face and repeatedly hit her in the arm with a phone, according to the sources.

Duenas-lay was charged with assault, menacing, harassment and weapons possession. His wife refused medical attention.

*** A teen was arrested for burglarizing his mother’s Canarsie home – after his sister turned him in, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

Jamael Murray, 18, who lives in an upstate group home, allegedly broke into his mother’s apartment on Rockaway Parkway near Avenue K at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. He stole jewelry and a PlayStation before fleeing, the sources said.

When his mother returned home, she called 911.

A neighbor told police that he had seen Murray at the building during the burglary.

Murray went to his sister’s Brooklyn home, where she called police after learning about the theft.

Murray was arrested on charges of burglary, trespass and criminal possession of stolen property. Police recovered the PlayStation, but not the jewelry.

MANHATTAN

*** A man was stabbed by an acquaintance during an argument on a Washington Heights street, police sources said yesterday.

The victim, 26, clashed with his attacker on West 168th Street at about 6:30 a.m. Monday.

The assailant pulled a knife and stabbed the man in his torso before fleeing.

The wounded man was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

STATEN ISLAND

*** Two Eltingville teens were busted yesterday for their role in a racially charged attack last year, cops said.

Adam Russell, 18, and his sister, Nicole, 19, were allegedly part of the large group that spewed abuse at an 18-year-old black woman, then brawled with her and five white and Hispanic friends at the corner of Tennyson Drive and Armstrong Avenue on Sept. 1, 2003.

The black teen was punched in the face, and three of her friends were also injured in the attack.

The Russells are the 12th and 13th people to be arrested in connection with the incident.

They were charged with assault and aggravated harassment.

*** A young woman has been arrested for stealing a credit card and using it to buy more than $1,000 worth of merchandise at two New Springville stores, court papers show.

Vitininia Sudano, 25, allegedly struck first on May 7, when she walked into Cohen’s Optical on Richmond Avenue near Nome Avenue. She used the stolen credit card to buy a $125 pair of glasses and forged the victim’s name on the charge slip, the documents say.

On May 9, she allegedly went to Littman Jewelers on Richmond Avenue and bought $1,031 worth of merchandise with the cards.

Sudano was arrested on Monday and charged with grand larceny, identity theft and forgery.

*** A 23-year-old man was charged with grand larceny after swiping $3,000 in jewelry from a Port Richmond home, court records show.

The suspect, Arthur Williams, confessed to stealing two rings from a jewelry box in a woman’s Dubois Avenue home on Aug. 24, the documents show.

Williams also allegedly took several other pieces of her jewelry. It was not immediately clear what, if any, relationship the two had.

Williams was arrested Monday and charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

THE BRONX (s,l)

*** Two private security guards were robbed of thousands of dollars in Bathgate yesterday by a pair of bandits posing as city cops, police said.

The guards, who had been making pickups for RDT Security, were pulled over by two men in an unmarked Crown Victoria in front of a Park Avenue building just after 1 p.m., police said.

The suspects, wearing baseball caps with “NYPD” emblazoned on them, walked up to the car, which had no company markings, and asked the men to get out.

The victims were handcuffed and the bogus cops stole $64,000 in cash and two 9mm guns, cops said.

The fake officers drove off, leaving the uninjured guards still handcuffed.