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Cops hunting for man indicted as part of Pace student murder trial after tense stand-off reveals suspect not home

Cops are hunting a suspect wanted in the 2010 slaying of a Pace student.

The NYPD warrant squad went to arrest suspect Jimmy Siders, 31, about 8:45 a.m. in his fourth-floor apartment in the Alfred E. Smith housing development on Madison Street, but the person who answered the door would not let them in.

That led to an hours-long stand off, which finally ended when they let cops in.

Siders wasn’t there, sources said.

Cops are still looking for him.

Siders was indicted yesterday in the murder trial of Randy Colon, who is accused of slaying Max Moreno — a Pace student and pot dealer who was shot to death in his Gold Street apartment.

Investigators believe Siders may have left the door open after buying pot from Moreno so that Randy Colon and accomplice Raymond Rizzo could enter his apartment.

The two allegedly asked him for cash and shot him in the head.

Rizzo was already convicted of first-degree murder in the slaying of Moreno, while Colon still has an active case. His next court date is June 19.