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A New Jersey man suspected in the brutal kidnapping and rape of a young woman in Paterson last week was collared by eagle-eyed law-enforcement agents Thursday afternoon inside a crowded Manhattan McDonald’s restaurant, sources told The Post.

Craig Hall, 23 is accused of snatching his victim off the street last week and raping her in a nearby abandoned building before taking her to his apartment and continuing the sex assault there, sources said.

Hall was acquitted of a similar attack in 2012 when a 13-year-old girl accused him of kidnapping her from her home before beating her and forcing her to perform oral sex on him.

Along with NYPD detectives and Paterson law-enforcement officers, US Marshals from the Regional Fugitive Task Force had been trailing Hall in Manhattan before finally spotting him on the second floor of the fast-food restaurant.

Sources said the dangerous fugitive was eating in a corner of the McDonald’s with his hoodie low on his head to remain inconspicuous. He went without a struggle after being cornered, sources said.

Hall will be transferred to New Jersey, where he will face rape charges.

Roughly a month after he was acquitted of the initial rape rap in 2014, Hall was arrested for criminal mischief and was served six months behind bars.

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