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* A Coney Island woman was arrested for slashing an ex-friend with a boxcutter and stabbing her with a crack pipe, police sources said yesterday.

The violence began at 11:30 p.m. last Wednesday, when Dorothy Lewter, 42, got into a heated argument with the victim in a West 31st Street building, sources said.

Brandishing a boxcutter, Lewter allegedly swung the weapon at the victim, slashing her face.

Lewter then allegedly grabbed a crack pipe and jabbed the victim in the face, leaving a shard of glass in her chin.

The victim was treated for injuries at Coney Island Hospital. Lewter was arrested on Monday and charged with assault.

* A fingerprint match has led to the arrest of a man who robbed a Crown Heights store at gunpoint in November, police sources said yesterday.

Elijah Green, 33, was arrested Monday and charged with robbery after he left a fingerprint in Strauss Disc Auto on Atlantic Avenue near Classon Avenue on Nov. 17, authorities said.

At 2:30 p.m. that day, Elijah Green and an accomplice entered the store and Green put a gun to the face of a 20-year-old female cashier. He then allegedly ordered her to open the register, but she didn’t have the key to do so.

Green and the accomplice went into the manager’s office and demanded he open the register. After taking cash from the register, the thieves then forced the manager to open a safe, took out about $1,800 and fled.

* Police yesterday identified the driver killed in a crash in Canarsie on Monday.

José Deidy, 62, was driving east on Glenwood Road at 6 p.m. Monday when his Subaru was hit at an intersection by a Mercedes heading north on Remsen Avenue, cops said.

Deidy was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he died. Police did not arrest the other driver or issue a summons.

* Police yesterday identified the suspect who allegedly went on a two-day robbery spree in Brooklyn that ended when his van plowed into a pedestrian.

During a 48-hour period that ended Monday night, James Ford, 37, and four accomplices committed at least six robberies in Brooklyn, cops said.

In each case, the muggers drove around Sheepshead Bay, Flatbush, Midwood and other neighborhoods, zeroing in on their victims.

The gang would jump from a red minivan, grab the victims and ripped off their cash and other property.

Ford was caught about 7:30 p.m. Monday when the minivan tried to make a right onto Crooke Avenue from Ocean Avenue and slammed into a 61-year-old pedestrian, breaking his kneecap. The four accomplices fled.

STATEN ISLAND

* A Clifton man was arrested for savagely attacking his sister in their home last month, authorities said yesterday.

A criminal complaint said Frank Nieves, 21, grabbed his sister by the arms and tossed her into a piece of furniture in their Targee Street residence about 9 a.m. on Dec. 15.

Nieves was arrested by police on Monday and charged with assault and harassment.

MANHATTAN

* An elderly woman told police that three masked thieves made off with more than $27,000 in cash after barging into her Hell’s Kitchen apartment and stealing the contents of her lock-box.

Anna Rivera, 65, said two masked men and a gun-wielding woman pushed open her unlocked door at around 7 a.m. and forced her to give up her savings.

Rivera told The Post she is a recovering heroin addict who regularly took methadone. She said she was also on various medications – including Xanax – which were prescribed for her “nervous condition.”

She said the thieves spoke fluent Spanish and knew what they were after. “They said ‘We don’t want to hurt you, We just want the money,” said Rivera. (lcf)

* A man was shot dead yesterday by two gunmen during a dispute on a Harlem street, police said yesterday.

Angel Arias, 31, of The Bronx, was shot in the midsection for unknown reasons at West 151st Street near Broadway about 8:30 p.m. Monday, cops said.

Witnesses saw two men – one gripping a handgun – fleeing on Riverside Drive. Arias was rushed to St. Luke’s Hospital, where he died.

Police said Arias had a criminal history, the details of which were not revealed.

QUEENS

* Two men robbed and sexually assaulted two female workers at knifepoint in a Flushing massage parlor, police said yesterday.

The thugs barged into the massage parlor on College Point Boulevard about 7:30 p.m. Monday and demanded sexual intercourse from two female employees, ages 40 and 42, cops said.

Police said the assailants then sexually assaulted the women and stole their cash, credit cards and cellphones.

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