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The suspects (pictured) followed the man into his building at around 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 and pushed their way into his apartment, authorities said.

The suspects (pictured) followed the man into his building at around 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 and pushed their way into his apartment, authorities said.

Manhattan

A scamming celebrity photographer has been busted again — this time for forging and then cashing several checks in Greenwich Village, authorities said.

Michael Tammaro, 55 — who has shot the likes of Kirsten Stewart, Tina Fey and Calvin Klein — was picked up on Monday for writing three checks on the victim’s bank account on Feb. 20 and Feb. 22, according to court documents.

The photographer was previously arrested last September for allegedly swindling more than $62,000 from seven people who responded to a Craigslist ad he posted to find a renter for his West 20th Street apartment.

This time, he admitted to forging the three checks, totaling $1,300, court records show.

“She left those checks for me. She signed them, but they were blank, so I put my name on it and the amounts,” Tammaro allegedly told investigators.

He was slapped with charges of forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, and grand larceny, the records show.

Tammaro was held in lieu of $10,000 bail or $35,000 bond, according to the records.

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The young woman found dead inside a barrel in the bedroom of a Harlem apartment last weekend has been identified as the suspect’s girlfriend, police said.

Francis Angelica Alfonso Pellerano, 19, lived with her boyfriend and his grandmother on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, cops said.

She was found stabbed to death and stuffed inside a 55-gallon drum in her boyfriend’s bedroom after his grandmother called 911 to report a foul odor, police said.

The boyfriend has not been questioned yet because he has been in a psychiatric ward since the body was discovered, sources said.

Brooklyn

A drunken driver nearly hit a police car while speeding the wrong way down a Carroll Gardens street, authorities said.

Eric Barger, 34, was arrested after speeding in his 2007 Ford Van against traffic on Hamilton Avenue near Smith Street at 5:40 a.m. Feb. 16, nearly causing a head-on collision with a patrol car, court papers claim.

Despite efforts to flee officers, Barger was eventually pulled over, police said at a recent 76th Precinct Community Council meeting.

The reckless driver blew more than the legal limit on a breath test, cops said.

Barger was charged with reckless endangerment, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and reckless driving, among other charges, the records show.

The Bronx

Two robbers barged into a Hunts Point apartment and robbed a 64-year-old man, police said.

The suspects (pictured) followed the man into his building at around 4:30 p.m. Feb. 18 and pushed their way into his apartment, authorities said.

The goons were caught on video surveillance as they approached the elevator, cops said.

The robbers took cash from the man’s pockets and fled, according to police.

Staten Island

Three teenagers broke into a Dunkin’ Donuts in Port Richmond and made off with a measly $19.50 in coins, court records say.

Douglas Marshall, 16, Esteban Meza, 18, and Victor Martinez, 16, allegedly threw a cinder block through the front window of the store on Richmond Terrace Friday night at around midnight and were disappointed to find only a few rolls of coins, according to the court documents.

The thieves confessed to the crime, court records show.

“We went inside Dunkin’ Donuts, we looked around the inside, and on the floor was coins,” Martinez allegedly told police. “We took the coins and left.”

Marshall said, “I know what we did is stupid.”

All three were charged with burglary, criminal mischief, petit larceny and possession of burglar’s tools, said a spokesman for DA Dan Donovan.

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Police tracked down a stolen iPhone only a few hours after it was stolen from a teenage girl in a Castleton Corners park, authorities said.

The 14-year-old victim was running in Clove Lake Park when she placed the iPhone 4S atop a brick wall at 3 p.m. Monday, law-enforcement sources said.

When the girl went back to get the phone, it was gone.

Cops pinged the phone and traced it at 6:20 p.m. to Bay and Broad streets in Stapleton, where a man was caught on video selling the stolen gizmo to Oussama Chafiq, law-enforcement sources said.

Chafiq, 21, was arrested and charged with criminal possession of stolen property, records show.