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The dead woman found wrapped in a blanket and dumped in The Bronx was hauled there in a shopping cart by two suspects, police sources told The Post on Sunday, as two suspects were arrested.

A passerby found the body of the 54-year-old woman, identified by cops as Judy Guzman, on West 183rd Street near Sedgwick Avenue in University Heights just before 11:30 p.m. Friday, according to cops.

Guzman’s body was wrapped in a blanket and taped up with duct tape, according to police.

Joseph Howe, 50, and Jorge Torres, 53, were each charged Sunday with concealment of a human corpse and tampering with physical evidence, officials said.

The three were getting high together on Friday night when Guzman suffered a fatal overdose, police sources said.

The two men panicked, bound Guzman’s body in a blanket and loaded it into a shopping cart, sources said.

Sources told The Post that Howe and Torres were seen on surveillance video pushing a cart containing the body, then dumping it.

Investigators reviewing surveillance footage traced the men’s route back to a nearby residence for the formerly homeless — where both Guzman and Howe lived, sources said.

Guzman had previously been busted for drugs and prostitution, the sources said.

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