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NYPD Daily Blotter

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Manhattan

*Police are hunting for two men (pictured in the top image) who broke into a Harlem bank but were unable to open its vault.

They jimmied their way into the Bank of America on Broadway near West 107th Street at 6 a.m. on Nov. 24.

A surveillance camera caught them trying to open the vault before walking away empty handed, police said.

Staten Island

*A man who flipped his SUV while stinking of booze was arrested, and told police he only had two drinks, cops said yesterday.

Jesse Camacho, 24, was sitting on a curb near his overturned 2001 Chevy Suburban on Rockland Avenue near Manor Road in Lighthouse Hill at 12:35 a.m. Thursday when officers arrived.

Authorities searched the car and found two empty bottles of Blue Moon beer and a full 40-ounce Bud Ice.

Queens

*The man depicted in the bottom image is wanted for sexually molesting a young girl at a Flushing library.

The skullcap-wearing pervert forcibly touched an 8-year-old girl in the Queens Public Library on Main Street near Kissena Boulevard at 2 p.m. last Saturday, cops said.

The suspect is described as white, in his early 30s, 5-foot-7, medium build, and was last seen wearing a dark jacket and blue jeans.

*A veteran NYPD detective was busted for allegedly driving drunk after plowing into a tollbooth at the Queens entrance to the Midtown Tunnel early yesterday.

James O’Connell, 39, was heading home from his unit’s holiday party on Long Island when he smashed his department-issued Jeep Cherokee through a closed lane’s wooden barricade at 2 a.m., sources said.

A Breathalyzer test revealed his blood-alcohol level to be .172 — more than twice the legal limit.

O’Connell, who has 15 years on the force and is assigned to the Technical Assistance Response Unit, was not injured.

*A 17-year-old walking home from Newtown HS yesterday afternoon was held up by two men, one of whom stabbed him in the stomach, sources said.

Two fellow students came to his aid, but the unidentified victim collapsed in front of the school, the sources said.

After emergency surgery, he was listed last night in serious condition.

*A Macy’s security guard stopped a Rego Park man casually exiting the Elmhurst store with an unpaid-for leather jacket, police said.

Ismet Cekic, 40, began removing the jacket’s tags at 4:40 p.m. Monday with the guard standing nearby, cops said.

Cekic was charged with petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, said a spokesman for DA Richard Brown.

*Four thugs were busted after ganging up on a man in an Ozone Park grocery, cops said.

Naresh Balraj, 33, began arguing with the victim in the Star Mini Market at 10 p.m. on Oct. 2, cops said.

Balraj, Khalel Hussain, Bhoopaul Singh and Nesh Narsingh surrounded the victim before Balraj bashed him on the head with a bottle and the others jumped in, officials said.

The victim was treated for head and facial lacerations.

Brooklyn

*Civilian crime fighters helped cops nab two petty crooks at work in Kensington, cops said.

Tyrone Cary, 20 and Jeramie Morgan, 19, were spotted breaking into a car on East 14th Street near Avenue H at 4 a.m. yesterday by volunteers with the Shomrim civilian patrol, sources said.

The patrol followed them until cops caught up at Argyle Road and Ditmas Avenue.